The World Forum (originally known as Nederlands Congresgebouw and formerly Nederlands Congres Centrum and World Forum Convention Center) is a concert venue and

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, near the buildings of the

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and one of the administrative offices of the

International Baccalaureate The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the I ...

History

It was opened in 1969 and was designed in the Dutch functionalism style by architect

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. His son, Hans Oud, completed the construction after his father's death in 1963. In 2006 a part of the convention center, including the ''Statenhal'', was demolished to make place for the

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building. Many concerts and festivals had been held there before, such as the annual

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, and the

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s of

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and

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

. Between 2006 and 2010

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festival was held at the World Forum (to replace the moved North Sea Jazz festival, which is now held in

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). Since 2011 the festival is held in the

Kyocera Stadium The Bingoal Stadion is a multi-use stadium in The Hague, Netherlands, designed by Zwarts & Jansma Architects. Completed in 2007, the stadium is used mostly for football and field hockey. It is the home stadium of ADO Den Haag and ADO Den Haag ...

Events

;Nederlands Congresgebouw *

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– 20–21 August 1972 *

–

and

– 1976–2005 * National Song Festival – 22 February 1978 (won by

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with their song ''

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'') *

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– 14 November 1978 (their final concert) *

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– 24 February 1990 *

48th World Science Fiction Convention The 48th World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConFiction, was held 23–27 August 1990 at the World Forum (The Hague), Netherlands Congress Centre in The Hague, Netherlands. The organising committee was chaired by Kees van ...

– 23–27 August 1990 * Toto – 30 November 1990 *

a-ha A-ha (often stylised as ''a''-h''a''; ) is a Norwegian synth-pop band formed in Oslo in 1982. Founded by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (guitars and vocals), Magne Furuholmen (keyboards, guitars and vocals), and Morten Harket (lead vocals), the band ros ...

– 4 April 1991 ;Nederlands Congres Centrum *

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– 27 May 1995 *

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– 9 December 1996 *

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– 22 May 1999 *

Laura Pausini Laura Pausini (; born 16 May 1974) is an Italian Pop music, pop singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 1993, 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La solitudine", which becam ...

– 18 January 2002 *Laura Pausini – 13 March 2005 ;World Forum Convention Center *

– 2006–2010 * International Conference on Afghanistan – 31 March 2009 * Meet the Future, Science & Technology Summit – 18 November 2010 *

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(THIMUN) – Annually ;World Forum *

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– Annually * Nuclear Security Summit – 24–25 March 2014 * Nick Cave – 16 to 17 May 2015 * Global Entrepreneurship Summit – 4–5 June 2019 *Ukraine Accountability Conference – 14 July 2022 *

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speech – 4 May 2023 * IUPAC-CHAINS 2023 – 18–25 August 2023 * 2025 The Hague summit – 24–26 June 2025

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