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2023
06
September
2023
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09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
KNVB and KPN have agreed to extend their long-standing partnership until 2026. Since 2017, KPN has been supporting football at every level – from the Dutch national men’s and women’s teams to E_Oranje and local amateur clubs. The decision was announc...
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04
July
2023
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09:00
Europe/Amsterdam
KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds recently joined forces with the Bartiméus Foundation (an organization committed to improving the lives of the partially sighted and blind) to welcome 40 people with a visual impairment to Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rott...
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07
June
2023
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17:02
Europe/Amsterdam
On Wednesday, eDivisie presenter Weijland, YouTuber Rokus and 433nl host Slot became the very first participants to be locked into the KPN E_ESCAPE ROOM on the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Campus in Zeist. Their challenge, aided by people ...
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16
March
2023
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15:54
Europe/Amsterdam
Today, Her Majesty Queen Máxima visited the project Ondernemen tegen Eenzaamheid [Entrepreneurs against Loneliness], run jointly by the KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds and the Oranje Fonds Foundation. She talked with representatives of the two funds and wi...
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01
March
2023
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10:03
Europe/Amsterdam
Beach tennis, bowling and canoe sprint are getting support from the TEAMKPN Sports Fund this year. The Fund was set up specially for team sports in the Netherlands that are not regarded as front-line sports by NOC*NSF and that therefore receive only ...
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14
February
2023
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14:52
Europe/Amsterdam
KPN supports the Giro555 action day on Wednesday 15 February for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. During the action day, 375 volunteers take calls from anyone who wants to make a donation for the earthquake victims. KPN's contributi...
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14
February
2023
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14:12
Europe/Amsterdam
KPN and the Rijksmuseum are extending their collaboration until March 2025. Joost Farwerck, CEO of KPN, and Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum, made the announcement at the opening of the Vermeer exhibition in front of one of the artis...
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20
January
2023
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10:36
Europe/Amsterdam
The KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds celebrated its 15-year anniversary in 2022 with several special projects. From a ‘Pink Christmas Dinner’ in the Concertgebouw to visiting the Dutch national football team with FC Mooiste Contact. From Easter lunches for ...
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2022
19
October
2022
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13:04
Europe/Amsterdam
The time has finally come again: the Dutch national team is participating in the World Cup! This year, for the first time in history, the tournament will take place in fall, from 20 November to 18 December. No celebrations in gardens or on squares be...
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18
October
2022
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11:11
Europe/Amsterdam
Promoting social contact and combating loneliness amongst vulnerable groups are at the heart of the KPN Mooiste Contact Days. 250 people for whom social contact cannot be taken for granted were guests at the Rijksmuseum. Along with 250 KPN volunteers...
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04
October
2022
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17:30
Europe/Amsterdam
Today is Diversity Day. The day when, in the Netherlands, we celebrate the power and richness of diversity in the workplace. In conversation with Ronald Nieuwenhuis, responsible for Inclusivity & Social Enterprise at KPN, about why diversity is so im...
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08
September
2022
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17:07
Europe/Amsterdam
The schools have started again and for most children that means they are taught together with their classmates in the classroom. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all children. There are more than a thousand children in the Netherlands who cann...
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04
August
2022
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17:13
Europe/Amsterdam
The Night Watch on a mug, sock, cookie jar or occupying an entire wall? Everyone with their own Night Watch is invited to the Rijksmuseum on Saturday 13, 20 and 27 August. The Rijksmuseum is not the only place where Rembrandt’s Night Watch can be fou...
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28
July
2022
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12:00
Europe/Amsterdam
To reward gamers with the ultimate gaming experience, KPN connects all Go!Gaming locations with First Class Internet using fiber. Go!Gaming connected by KPN, ensures that gamers who don’t yet have a fiber connection in their own home can enjoy the be...
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21
July
2022
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08:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Jordan, Kenya, and Poland: three countries where LGBTQIA+ people are discriminated against, oppressed, and even persecuted. Equaldex gives the countries a failing score when it comes to people being able to openly celebrate their sexuality or gender ...
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29
June
2022
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14:56
Europe/Amsterdam
As of 9 July, the KNVB Campus in Zeist will be home to Camping van Oranje. KNVB, KPN and Albert Heijn will transform the heart of Dutch football into a real campsite where 600 young Oranje fans and their parents can come and camp for each of the Dutc...
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17
June
2022
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16:07
Europe/Amsterdam
A group of disabled entrepreneurs attended the ‘Startup Kickstart’ event organized by the Bart de Graaff Foundation, Onbeperkt aan de Slag, and KPN Liaison, during the Support fair in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs on 16 June. They are joining forces to make ...
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09
June
2022
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12:00
Europe/Amsterdam
The innovative ICT solution KPN Klasgenoot has been revamped and is now a lot more suitable for secondary school pupils. The Klasgenoot enables children who cannot easily go to school in person because of serious or chronic illness to attend classes ...
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24
May
2022
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10:45
Europe/Amsterdam
A new video series by the KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds and the Eredivisie focuses on young football fans who are unable to get to the stadium due to their illness. With the help of KPN Klasgenoot (Classmate) (a device that allows long-term sick children...
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13
April
2022
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07:00
Europe/Amsterdam
Maya VR, the Rijksmuseum and the KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds have joined forces to start a new series of VR tours. As many as 4,000 elderly people in care homes across the country will be treated to a virtual “day out” at the Rijksmuseum Gallery of Hon...
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11
April
2022
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13:19
Europe/Amsterdam
TEAMKPN Sportfonds was founded by KPN in 2015 precisely to focus help on team sports in the Netherlands that are not regarded as front-line sports by NOC*NSF, and that therefore only receive limited financial support. In 2022, TEAMKPN Sportfonds is a...
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04
April
2022
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15:43
Europe/Amsterdam
The popular event 'De Wedstrijd van je Leven' (The Match of Your Life) is back on ESPN. This show, in which an amateur team takes on FC De Rebellen, is supported by KPN (main sponsor of the Eredivisie) and the VriendenLoterij (social partner of the E...
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28
March
2022
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07:00
Europe/Amsterdam
On Tuesday March 29 during the football match between the Netherlands and Germany, FC Mooiste Contact will turn the spotlight on 500 people. FC Mooiste Contact is a new social initiative in which the KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds and the Royal Dutch Foot...
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22
March
2022
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13:00
Europe/Amsterdam
KPN Mooiste Contact Fonds and Alzheimer Nederland organize Easter lunches for carersIn the coming weeks, 700 informal carers of people with dementia will be treated to an Easter lunch in football stadiums of Eredivisie clubs. The KPN Mooiste Contact ...
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28
February
2022
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12:13
Europe/Amsterdam
The situation in Ukraine touches our hearts. For this reason we will not charge for mobile (calls and SMS) and fixed-line calls to Ukraine. This applies to all consumers and business customers. We are also making roaming (calls, texts, and data use) ...
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2021
14
November
2021
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19:45
Europe/Amsterdam
E_Oranje is the first official FIFA team in Europe to have its own E_Room, at the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) Campus in Zeist. The KPN E_Room will be the permanent home of E_Oranje for training camps and international matches and, thanks ...
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12
November
2021
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22:07
Europe/Amsterdam
Following the new corona measures, KPN has decided to make the BLØF concert at Rotterdam Ahoy available to the whole of the Netherlands tomorrow night via a livestream. The HIER Festival, which was planned for Rotterdam Ahoy, cannot go ahead because ...
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05
October
2021
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08:30
Europe/Amsterdam
Today is Diversity Day. And at KPN, too, the focus of the day is diversity and inclusion. After all, inclusivity is for all of us. Diversity is multifaceted. Within KPN, Marieke Snoep, Chief Business Market and member of KPN’s Board of Management, ch...
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13
August
2021
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10:00
Europe/Amsterdam
KPN will remain the main sponsor of the Eredivisie through the 2024/2025 season. This was announced today at the start of the Eredivisie season. And it is going to be a special season, as the Eredivisie is celebrating its 65th anniversary. This is go...
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04
August
2021
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09:26
Europe/Amsterdam
550 elderly people and KPN volunteers enjoy the musical The Sound of Music together in the AFAS Circus Theater Scheveningen550 elderly people have been to see the musical The Sound of Music together with 550 KPN volunteers. For many of these elderly ...
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