5 December 2024 | Online
Following the successful in-person event in Amsterdam earlier this year, GCP invites all members to the second part of the GCP Member Assembly on 5 December 2024.
This exclusive virtual event will build on the in-person event, which took place in Amsterdam on 25 June 2024. The second part – a virtual gathering – is for GCP Members only and will include key membership decisions and GCP Board elections.
Further information on elections, decision points and the full agenda will be shared with GCP Members via email in the coming weeks.
Registration opens mid-September.
Relive the June in-person event:
The GCP Member Assembly is the premier gathering of the global GCP Membership community with national and international coffee sector stakeholders and sustainability experts, providing you with the opportunity to learn, exchange and create.
Join GCP Members from around the world, representing all parts of the coffee value chain, and contribute to accelerating collective action on farmer prosperity and sustainable sourcing.
Don’t miss this special opportunity to celebrate the successes that GCP Members have achieved together, and to shape our collective response to key sustainability business challenges.
The GCP Member Assembly will be a gathering of the GCP community with national and international coffee sector stakeholders and sustainability experts, providing you with the opportunity to learn, exchange and create.
25 June 2024, De Nieuwe Liefde, Da Costakade 102, Amsterdam
Registration and Meet & Greet: 09:00 – 09:45
This year’s GCP Member Assembly will be held at the De Nieuwe Liefde, a centre for poetry, philosophical discussion, political debate and other cultural programs located in Amsterdam’s beautiful Oud-West neighbourhood.
The venue is around 15 minutes from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport via taxi, and is a short walking distance to Museumplein in the heart of the city of Amsterdam.
Reception
09:00 – 09:45 – Registration and Exchange, Meet the Countries
10:00 – Official Opening
Accelerating Collective Action
10:45 – Collective Action for Farmer Prosperity
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break & Meet the Countries
12:00 – Collective Action for Farmer Prosperity continued
13:00 – 14:10 Lunch break
14:10 – Collectively Moving Towards Sustainable Sourcing
Members from other stakeholder groups are invited to join the group of their choice.
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break & Meet the Countries
16:10 – Collectively Moving Towards Sustainable Sourcing continued
Celebrating Collective Action
18:00 – Reception – same venue as Member Assembly
Participation at the GCP Member Assembly 2024 is exclusive to GCP Members only. Participation is free for up to two representatives per GCP Member and one for individual members. Additional tickets were available for extra attendees at $250 per person. Registration is now closed as we have reached capacity.
If you have registered but can no longer attend, please change your registration status via the confirmation email sent to you when you first registered. Alternatively, please send an email to info@globalcoffeeplatform.org before 10 June 2024.
Attendance is free for individual members and a maximum of two representatives of each member organization.
Additional tickets can be purchased by GCP Members at a cost of €250 per head if there is availability.
Tickets for the 2024 event have now sold out.
This year’s GCP Member Assembly will be held at the De Nieuwe Liefde, a centre for poetry, philosophical discussion, political debate and other cultural programs located in Amsterdam’s beautiful Oud-West neighbourhood.
The venue is around 15 minutes from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport via taxi, and is a short walking distance to Museumplein in the heart of the city of Amsterdam.
De Nieuwe Liefde
Da Costakade 102
1053 WP Amsterdam
+31 (0) 20 589 1680
The museum has a parking garage. The fee for guests is 4 € per day.
June is peak tourist season in Amsterdam. A lot of hotels are already booked out. We recommend to make your hotel booking as soon as possible. Due to the limited availabilities the GCP Secretariat was unable to arrange for room contingents. Below you find some recommendations for hotels of different price categories who still had available rooms at the time of our research.
We also recommend using online booking platforms such as www.booking.com or www.kayak.com.
2-star hotel
Prinsengracht 518-520
Amsterdam City Center, 1017 KJ Amsterdam
This hotel is located in the heart of Amsterdam. The MA venue is a 15-minute walk away.
3-star hotels:
Alfred Hotel (Oud Zuid)
Cornelis Schuytstraat 58-60
Oud Zuid, 1071 JL Amsterdam
Well located in the Oud Zuid district of Amsterdam, the same district of the MA venue.
The Alfred Hotel is located a 11-minute walk from Vondelpark. It offers a paid airport shuttle service.
Hotel New Kit
Bos en Lommerweg 390,
Geuzenveld-Slotermeer, 1061 DJ Amsterdam
Hotel New Kit is located in Amsterdam in the Noord-Holland region, 2.5 miles from Anne Frank House and 2.8 miles from Leidseplein.
Hotel City Garden Amsterdam
P.C. Hooftstraat 162
Oud Zuid, 1071 CH Amsterdam
Hotel City Garden joins on to the Vondelpark only a few blocks away from the MA venue.
Karspeldreef 2
Zuidoost, 1101 CJ Amsterdam
OZO Hotels Arena Amsterdam is 1148 feet from Bullewijk Metro Station and a 10-minute walk from Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Train Station. Schiphol Airport is 12 miles away.
Joan Muyskenweg 10
Oost, 1096 CJ Amsterdam
Only a 6-minute walk from metro station Overamstel which provides access to the city center, Schiphol, RAI, ArenA, Ziggo Dome and Zuid-As business district of Amsterdam.
Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) is a major international airport which lies 17km south-west of central Amsterdam. It offers excellent transport connections including a railway station directly under the airport.
Visit this website to learn more about getting from Schiphol airport to Amsterdam City.
Travel around Amsterdam can be done through various modes of public transportation.
Click here for more information about connections and tickets.
If you want to stay in the Netherlands for less than 90 days, you may need a short-stay Schengen visa. Whether you need a visa to visit the Netherlands depends on your nationality and your travel plans.
This website tells you whether you need to apply for a visa or not. Click here.
If you do need to apply for a Schengen visa to enter The Netherlands, visit this website.
If you require an official invitation for your visa application, we are happy to provide you with one. Please contact us on info@globalcoffeeplatform.org
To enable maximum participation at the GCP Member Assembly 2024 GCP offers a limited number of Travel and Accommodation Subsidies for GCP members belonging to the Producer and Civil Society stakeholder groups located in coffee producing countries.
APPLICATION FOR SUBSIDES IS NOW CLOSED.
Click to read the GCP Travel and Accommodation Subsidy Policy.
Currently, there are no Covid-19 restrictions in The Netherlands.
Both private and public hospitals, clinics, dispensaries, pharmacies, and other centers are available for your health and medical needs. Remember to obtain international medical insurance for your travels and entire period of stay in The Netherlands.
If you have registered but can no longer attend, please change your registration status via the confirmation email sent to you when you first registered. Alternatively, please send an email to GCP before 10 June 2024.
To ensure the sustainability of this event, GCP Members who fail to cancel their tickets by 10 June 2024 will receive an invoice for $250.
Please record your dietary restrictions in the registration form. We will notify the caterers accordingly. We will do our best to make accommodations, but may not be able to in some cases.
All participants of the GCP Member Assembly agree to the anti-trust regulations as laid out by GCP:
There shall be no discussions of agreements or concerted actions that may restrain competition. This prohibition includes discussions of current or future prices, margins, discounts, the timing of price changes, costs, capacities, customers, suppliers, product and marketing plans, sales projections, credit terms, or other competitively sensitive information relating to your business. We must also not talk about agreements to fix prices, control sales or the output of production, allocate markets, or refusing to deal with a particular entity.
The discussion or exchange on these topics must not only be avoided during this meeting but also during all informal gatherings when competitors may be present. Each meeting participant is obliged to speak up immediately for the purpose of preventing any discussion falling outside these bounds.
This agreement applies to in-person events as well as meetings or events held virtually.
By registering for the GCP Member Assembly, you agree that the organizer is entitled to make film and photo recordings of the event and its participants for the publication and documentation of the platform’s activities.
If for any reason you cannot be portraited during the event, please contact info@globalcoffeeplatform.org
Please note: If you have registered but can no longer attend, please change your registration status via registration confirmation email sent to you when you first registered. Alternatively send an email to GCP before 10 June 2024. To ensure the sustainability of this event, GCP Members who fail to cancel their tickets by 10 June 2024 will receive an invoice for $250.
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