Already for some years the TU/e organized several activities to stimulate the well-being of their international colleagues and of their spouses, such as introduction days, a buddy system and get-togethers for spouses. Yet the feedback they received suggested that many spouses still have trouble adapting, building new networks, and making sense of their new lives, in the period after arriving in Eindhoven. Each year several international employees prematurely have been leaving the university. This appears to be largely due to the spouses not coping well with their new life. This is in accordance with the findings reported in literature (see for instance van Erp, 2011, p. 105). As researched by the TU/e, there was a need for something that could help prevent the international employees from leaving Eindhoven and going back to their country. Mainly since their partners felt in