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EUROPE'S GASTRONOMIC CAPITAL
[EDIT: Maastricht, October 15]
There has been a great deal of talk over the past few years about the Maastricht brand and how to give it content. In far-off places, Maastricht/Meuse-Rhine is a sort of shorthand for Europe, which presumably refers to its linguistic...[more]
TOP STORIES
[EDIT: Eijsden, October 14]
A Nobel prize at Jülich - reported in English no less; ArcelorMittal’s decision to build an integrated steel plant in Liège - if all goes well on the offset front; the move of part of Vodafone Maastricht to Amsterdam and the award...[more]
FRANS WOLFS AWARD
[EDIT: Liège, October 10]
The Frans Wolfs medallion has been awarded for the second time at La Violette, Liège’s City Hall. Councilor Schroyen of Liège and Luxembourg Consul Fernand Jardoul of Maastricht introduced the proceedings and announced that this year’s...[more]
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GASTRONOMY WEEK
[BIZ/LEI: Maastricht, October 10]
The catering fairs BBB and the European Fine Food Fair and PUUR, the gastronomy fair, will take place in Gastronomy Week — Monday, January 21 through Sunday, January 27, 2008. This 54th edition of the catering fair, the oldest...[more]
SCHENKER BUYS SPAIN TIR
[BIZ/LOG: Tilburg, October 10]
Schenker Logistics, with branches in Limburg, Beringen, Venlo and Maastricht, is expanding its service to Spain. As of October 1, the Schenker Group has taken over the logistical organizations for Spain TIR. Each week between 25...[more]
DSM BULLETPROOF VEST
[BIZ: Almelo, October 10]
Textile company Ten Cate and DSM have developed a lightweight bulletproof vest. The vest was presented at the Trade Fair for State Security in Paris. The vest is made of DSM’s Dyneema material and the same material provides super strong...[more]
ARCELORMITTAL NEW LIEGE PLANT
[BIZ: Luxembourg, October 10]
ArcelorMittal has unveiled its industrial plan for the Liège region. Michel Wurth, a member of ArcelorMittal's Group Management Board, explained the Group's plan for the region to staff representatives October 9 with regards to...[more]
MADE IN LIEGE
[BIZ/MEDIA: Liège, October 10]
From October 10, every Wednesday after the television news the local Liège online TV station RTC is going to produce a new program called ‘Made in Liège’, which is being produced in association with GRE-Liège (Economic Development...[more]
LIEGE RFIDEA IN PARIS
[BIZ: Liège, October 10]
The Liège RFIDEA SA company specializing in radio frequency identification tags will be taking part in the Paris trade fair known as Salon Cartes 2007, which will be held on November 13 through 15. This is an international trade fair...[more]
DURACAR AT AVANTIS
[BIZ: Aachen, October 10]
Duracar at Avantis, the battery-powered delivery van project – Innovan - [About which we reported on April 27. Ed.] is going according to plan. The intellectual property check is also proceeding according to plan and research is ongoing...[more]
VODAFONE 2ND HEAD OFFICE
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 10]
As of January 2008, Vodafone intends to open a second Head Office in Amsterdam to support its growth strategy in the Netherlands. It will transfer the majority of its commercial and corporate functions over a period of time, involving...[more]
ENERGY PROJECT IN AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, October 9]
Aachen’s energy council, at the invitation of the Jülich Solar Institute’s Professor Klemens Schwarzer, is to look at the solar institute and technical solutions in the area of sustainable and efficient use of energy. There was a ...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE IN MUNICH
[BIZ: Aachen, October 8]
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion is making its appearance again at Expo Real in Munich this year. The Munich event for real estate attracted 21,000 visitors last year and 20 businesses and official institutions were on the Meuse-Rhine stand...[more]
KWANTUM NEW MANAGEMENT
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 5]
The Managing Board of Macintosh Retail Group announces that Mr P.A.E. (Edward) Buitelaar (43) will be appointed Managing Director of the Group’s subsidiary Kwantum with effect from November 5, 2007. He succeeds Mr E.M.H. (Eric) Coorens,...[more]
CHOCOLATE EXPANSION
[BIZ: Liège, October 5]
The famous Liège chocolate producer Galler wants to grow further: by the end of October the company wants to raise EUR 2.7m to be able to do so. Almost a year ago, the company opened up to investors from Qatar and Lebanon. The extra money...[more]
NO TO ‘CRADLE TO CRADLE’
[BIZ: Panningen, October 4]
Businesses in Venlo, who want to pursue the ‘Cradle to Cradle’ principle, should not expect any form of financial support. The ‘Cradle to Cradle’ principle is that everything can be reused. The principle is to be used in sustainable...[more]
LIMBURG EXPORT PRIZE
[BIZ: Venlo, October 4]
Pump manufacturer Weir Minerals from Venlo has won this year’s Limburg Export Prize. It was followed by Technomed from Beek, a supplier of medical devices, and the software developer Protomation from Sittard. The prize is an initiative...[more]
HOGESCHOOL ZUYD AND BUSINESS
[BIZ/EDU: Heerlen, October 4]
A new site is being set-up to link the Hogeschool Zuyd, a Limburg college, and Limburg’s business community. During the Business contact Fair, Deputy Governor Herman Vrehen and Mrs Pluijmaekers, Chair of the SMEs for Limburg, officially...[more]
PORT OF ANTWERP IN MAASTRICHT
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, October 3]
There is a vast increase in the number of containers being handled at European ports. Between 1990 and 2002 there was a rise of 7% and between 2003 to 2006 a rise of 10.9%, and this will continue to grow. In total in 2006, 35...[more]
FLANDERS DRIVE: EUR 28M
[BIZ: Brussels, October 3]
The Flemish Minister of Economy and Innovation Fientje Moerman (Open Vld) [who has since resigned. ED] has made an award of EUR 28.8m for Flanders’ DRIVE II, an innovation program for the Flemish automotive industry. The program is...[more]
MAASMECHELEN VILLAGE JOBS
[BIZ: Maasmechelen, October 3]
The Maasmechelen Village designer outlet mall wants to take on up to 100 extra staff this year because of the increase in shoppers and its status as a tourist attraction. This was reported by the local radio station Radio 2 Limburg....[more]
PILOT SHORTAGE BENEFITS STELLA
[BIZ/LOG/EDU: Maastricht, October 2]
Through 2020 there will be a need for 75,000 new pilots. Ryanair alone takes on 300 new pilots every year, Lufthansa takes 50 and Air Berlin 10. Maastricht’s new Stella Aviation Academy is currently training 300 pilots annually...[more]
EUROPEAN PARKING PRIZE
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 2]
The parking garage at the shopping and office center Mosae Forum in Maastricht has received the European Parking Association’s award in the category of New Projects. Nineteen garages in eight European countries were candidates. The...[more]
SABIC WANTS MORE OF DSM
[BIZ: Sittard, October 2]
The Saudi company Sabic, which bought petrochemical plants from DSM a number of years ago, is now being mentioned as a potential purchaser of the DSM plant for urea, melamine and artificial fertilizer. The plants are related and match...[more]
NYRSTAR ACTIVE IN SYNERGIES
[BIZ: Eijsden, October 2]
Nyrstar, which has collected the synch activities of Zinifex and Umicore, is thinking of synergies between Nyrstar Budel in The Netherlands and Umicore in Balen and they will ensure that not all of the formats are produced in each place...[more]
CONUS: REACH COMPLIANCE
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
Conus Business Advice & Training is offering its regulatory affairs expertise for global specialty chemical & polymer processors requiring REACH compliance. Servicing the specialty chemicals and polymer industries and its consumer product...[more]
AXONE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
Axone GmbH is a German branch of the French LGM company that was founded in 1991 in Paris. The company is located at the Aachen Technology Center at the Europaplatz and they are involved in a NATO project. They presented their project...[more]
TRIANEL GAS STORAGE AT EPE
[BIZ: Aachen/Epe, October 2]
The filling of the first Trianel gas storage underground cavern started on October 1 at 06:00. This allowed Trianel Gas Storage Epe mbH & Co KG its next important step in the construction of communal gas storage in Epe. In the context...[more]
LIOF BUSINESS PARKS
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 2]
LIOF Business Parks is a separate company. It takes the initiative, manages processes and takes on contracts, with one objective, that of creating space for business in Limburg. However, there is still need for expansion and upgrading;...[more]
BORREKUIL BUSINESS CENTER 2008
[BIZ: Sittard-Geleen, October 2]
LIOF Business Centers runs and manages 11 business centers in Limburg. It is responding to the rapidly growing demand for office space in Sittard-Geleen, and in the Borrekuil Business Park, it is going to start a new ultra modern...[more]
UNILOGIC IT IN EDUCATION
[BIZ/EDU: Sittard, October 2]
Clients of Unilogic BV are largely school boards in the east and southern Netherlands. After a test rollout in 2001, with a contract for the computerization of schools in the Limburg INNOVO foundation, there was an expansion of...[more]
MYLIMBURG (NL)
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 2]
Under the name MyLimburg a number of Limburg companies, in cooperation with the Province of Limburg and LIOF, have developed an online mobile information and service platform for visitors and residents of Limburg. Limburg is the...[more]
SIMULATION SOFTWARE
[BIZ: Sittard/Maastricht, October 2]
Protomation is growing rapidly and in the context of this growth it has called upon LIOF for venture capital and has offered a 20% share to help fund its development plans. Protomation and Sittard develop software for the...[more]
WILWY MANAGEMENT BUY-IN
[BIZ: Sittard/Maastricht, October 2]
LIOF, the Limburg development company, has participated in a management buy-in at Wilwy Sittard where LIOF has acquired a share of 18.75%. Wilwy BV is a metalworking company in Sittard which specializes in processing high...[more]
TRENDY, FASHIONABLE HASSELT
[BIZ: Hasselt, October 2]
Over the past summer, Hasselt was called the most pleasant city by consumer organizations in Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Spain. This Belgian town has 700 trendy fashion spots in its small town center. People like shopping in Hasselt;...[more]
MICHAEL HELLMUND SPHINX BOSS
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 2]
As of October 1, Michael Hellmund (47), a German lawyer, became the Senior Vice President for central Europe with Sanitec, the company that owns Sphinx. His area is the Benelux countries, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, and the...[more]
CONCRETE ROT DETECTION
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, October 2]
As concrete can take push but cannot resist pull, it is reinforced with steel. A risk is that the salting of roads in winter or salt from construction near the sea will penetrate the porous concrete and attack the steel. In...[more]
PARKSTAD MAGAZINE
[BIZ/MEDIA: Heerlen, October 2]
Highlights in the most recent Parkstad magazine are the opportunities of Parkstad as a shopping center and a clear view of the retail industry. The mayor of Sittard-Geleen has a feeling for Parkstad; Sjraar Cox was actually a...[more]
FOREIGN COS OUT OF ENERGIENED
[BIZ: Rotterdam, October 2]
The Dutch subsidiaries of the power companies Electrabel, E.on, Oxxio and RWE have left the Dutch branch association EnergieNed. They have in fact set up their own organization for Marketing Energy (VME). The four thought that there...[more]
TOP BOX OF CHOCS
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
Aug. Heinrigs Druck & Verpackung GmbH & Co. KG, a specialist in carton production, has won a European prize, the ECMA/ProCarton Award 2007, for its chocolate box known as the ‘Pralinés-Etui’. The jury comments were that what at first...[more]
PARKSTAD: 2,400 HOUSES
[BIZ: Parkstad, October 2]
Two thousand four hundred houses are to be built in Parkstad through 2010. After months of negotiation, the seven Parkstad municipalities, four regional housing associations and 15 project developers have finally reached an agreement....[more]
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FLANDERS: TRUCK TOLL ONLY
[LOG/GOV: Brussels/Maastricht, October 13]
Flanders wants to introduce a single toll system for trucks, in cooperation with the Netherlands, as an alternative to the sticker proposal, applicable to all road traffic, which they have since dropped. The Flemish...[more]
LIEGE-WALHORN HIGH-SPEED LINE
[LOG: Liège/Walhorn, October 9]
The first trains will soon be running on the high-speed track between Liège and Walhorn. In the past week the first test runs were done on part of the track. Speeds of between 120 km/h. and 286 km/h. were recorded. The test runs...[more]
NEW BIZ AT LIEGE AIRPORT
[LOG: Liège, October 3]
Liège Airport is establishing two subsidiaries: Liège Airport Security and Liège Handling Services. The first is a response to the wishes of the Walloon government to let the airports look after their own security. Liège Airport Security...[more]
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MIDWIFERY AND HOGESCHOOL ZUYD
[EDU: Maastricht, October 15]
Today a merger agreement will be signed by representatives of the Maastricht School of Midwifery and Hogeschool Zuyd, projecting a merger by September 1, 2008....[more]
EUREGIONALE 2008
[GOV: Aachen, October 15]
Euregionale 2008, which surfaces regularly in these columns, refers to a series of projects in Aachen and Meuse-Rhine, which can expect regional grant funding from the State Government of North-Rhine Westphalia in 2008. Interest is...[more]
COR NEWSLETTER
[GOV: Brussels, October 13]
The latest newsletter of the Committee of the Regions has a special feature on maritime policy, which includes the following issues: Blue Planet Forum 27 and 28 November 2007; the stakes are high for the EU’s cities and regions; A...[more]
ONLINE POLICE TV
[GOV: Maastricht, October 12]
From October 12, the South-Limburg’s police will have its own online TV station, called PIT or Police Internet Television. This is a world premier. The whole world will be able to watch the daily activities of the police in moving...[more]
MAYOR OPENS ST. GEORGE’S
[EDU: Aachen, October 11]
Although school has been running since 29th August for 49 children aged 2 to 12, the official inauguration and ribbon cutting ceremony took place October 11 in the presence of Aachen’s Mayor, Dr. Jürgen Linden. In his speech, Dr. Linden...[more]
REGIONAL PRODUCTS
[GOV: Aachen, October 11]
The Aachen REGION in cooperation with the Aachen Kathy Beys Foundation and North-Rhine Westphalia is inviting everyone to the Mathéy House on October 18 at 20.00 hrs, to an event called “Rein in die Regale”, which is about improving...[more]
AACHEN’S MAYOR
[GOV: Aachen, October 10]
In the same issue of NIVEAU EuregioMagazine referred to earlier, there is an interview with the mayor of Aachen, Jürgen Linden, who has very interesting things to say about the Euroregion. Mr Linden points out that the Euroregion isn’t...[more]
SPACE CENTER OPEN DAYS
[EDU: Liège, October 10]
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik space satellite and the Start of an MSc degree in Space Science and a degree in Civil Engineering and Aerospace, the University of Liège Space Center is holding open days on October 20 and...[more]
EUREGIONALE LABELS
[GOV: Heinsberg/Aachen, October 8]
In the context of EuRegionale 2008 among the projects are being awarded labels is the Lago Laprello in Heinsberg. This is a splendid landscape south of the three lakes. Work is being done in part in the wood and in part on...[more]
EIFEL AGAINST WIND PARKS
[GOV/INFRA: Eupen, October 8]
There will be no more wind parks in the German Eifel area. Plans for new developments have met with resistance. There is an association called ‘Living without Windmills’; in the neighborhood of Kall they want to stop development...[more]
VERVIERS EUR 9M CREDIT
[GOV: Verviers, October 8]
The City of Verviers is experiencing financial problems and has a deficit of EUR 2.5m. And the figures also appear to be going further into the red, so the council has taken a credit from the Walloon region. As noted by the mayor,...[more]
WARNING TO VEOLIA
[GOV/LOG: Maastricht, October 5]
The Dutch Province of Limburg has sent a letter of complaint to Veolia, the French environmental and public transport company which has a bus and train concession in Limburg. The letter notes points in the agreement with the...[more]
LIMBURG REGIONAL HISTORY PRIZE
[EDU: Maastricht, October 5]
The Limburg Regional History Center has been nominated for the History Prize. The Maastricht center also won the prize last year. The Week of History will take place from October 12 through 21 in the Netherlands and the EUR 5,000...[more]
PM LAMBERTZ AND PM DEMOTTE
[GOV: Eupen, October 5]
Belgium’s German-speaking community and the Walloon region want to continue the existing cooperation between them that has lasted for ten years. This is a result of an exchange of ideas between prime ministers Karl-Heinz Lambertz of the...[more]
FONTYS AND UM
[EDU: Maastricht, October 4]
There is to be cooperation between the Fontys Hogescholen and Maastricht University in research and related education. On October 4 this was sealed by the signing of a joint declaration of intent. This relates to making professors...[more]
CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION
[GOV: Aachen, October 4]
The Interreg, the European funding for cross-border activities, held it’s ‘Kick-Off Meeting INTERREG’ in the MECC in Maastricht on October 4 and a new program for cross-border cooperation in Meuse-Rhine started. EUR 144m is available...[more]
MSM IN GLOBAL TOP THREE
[EDU: Maastricht, October 3]
The Maastricht School of Management is one of the first institutions of its type in the world to be recognized with a new quality award. The MSM Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) has been recognized by the Association of MBAs....[more]
RECTOR REAPPOINTED
[EDU: Maastricht, October 3]
Professor Gerard Mols has been the Rector of the University of Maastricht since 2004 and is now to have a second term through January 2012. Professor Mols has been at the university since 1981, when he worked in criminal law, and...[more]
LIMBURG PULLS TOGETHER
[GOV: Maastricht, October 2]
The provincial government and a delegation from the Limburg municipalities have reached an agreement on the joint Limburg approach to the issue of sustainable development in Limburg. This is a unique situation and is the first time...[more]
INVESTING IN SPACE
[GOV: Maastricht, October 2]
Attention for the restructuring, the environment, spatial development and the city network was a focus during the visit of Minister Cramer to South Limburg. The minister had indicated that she had plenty of room to support concrete...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE ROUTE AGAIN
[GOV/LEI: Aachen, October 2]
There is a lot of publicity for the Charlemagne Route, which is to be part of the EuRegionale 2008 project. As we noted earlier (September 13) and elsewhere in this issue, the Charlemagne Route has now received the official label...[more]
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TRANSCENDANT SOLUTIONS
[LIFE-SCI/BIZ: Aachen, October 15]
Transcend is a Euregional project dealing with cross-border technology transfer between biotechnologies and seven Life Sciences related sectors: Medical tools, Molecular imaging, Information & Communication Technologies, High...[more]
AZM NEW PATIENT DOC SYSTEM
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, October 13]
Maastricht’s University Hospital (AZM) is to invest EUR 35m over the next two years, in a new digital patient documentation system (EPD). The system is intended to improve patient security and prevent duplication within the...[more]
BIOCLUB MEETING
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, October 5]
There will be a meeting of the BioClub on October 30 at 18:00 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology in the seminar room at Forckenbeckstr. 6, Aachen. Dr Christian Schetter, Senior Vice President ...[more]
MEDICAL INNOVATION
[LIFE-SCI: Gulpen/Brunssum/Maastricht, October 2]
The Biometric Center in Gulpen, Maastricht Instruments, and AIM in Brunssum organized a mini-symposium on Fitness for Brains in Maastricht with LIOF at the end of August. The reason for this was that there had...[more]
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JUELICH NOBEL PRIZE
[SCI-TECH: Jülich/Stockholm, October 9]
The Nobel Committee has awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics to the Jülich researcher Peter Grünberg and his colleague Albert Fert from the University of Paris. Grünberg and Fert are being honored for their discovery...[more]
SEX WITH ROBOTS
[SCI-TECH/EDU: Maastricht, October 8]
A Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of Maastricht contains some controversial forecasts about the future of human-robot relationships. The thesis is entitled “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners” and its...[more]
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GALERIE TRACE EXHIBITION
[LEI: Maastricht, October 15]
From October 28 until December 8 there will be an exhibition of paintings of Lieve Goeminne and Sasja Wagenaar at Gallery Tracé in Maastricht, Alexander Battalaan 31. For more information: 043-3260071/043-3643588 or check the web...[more]
PROVINCE-WIDE ARTS
[LEI: Liège, October 13]
There is to be a festival of the arts province-wide in Liège which will moblize cultural centers throughout the province to bring the arts to the people. Go to the link for the full program and all locations of ‘ y a pas d’ lézarts ’...[more]
OPERA ROYAL WALLONIE
[LEI: Liège, October 10]
From Friday October 19 until Saturday, October 27 the Opéra Royal de Wallonie presents ‘Trois Intermezzi’ directed by Rodolfo Bonucci. With its refined music and sparkling dialogue, opera at that time was similar to the Commedia dell'Arte. ...[more]
FOURONS
[LEI: Fourons, October 10]
In this Fall’s edition of NIVEAU EuregioMagazine, the Fourons (the source of good life) is an almost encyclopedic presentation giving the history of the region, which has been inhabited for 250,000 years and giving the local history...[more]
NEW WELLNESS AT CAROLUS
[LEI/HEALTH: Aachen, October 5]
The Carolus spa in Aachen is 240m2 and has 49 options in the areas of massage, Ayurveda, Packing, Hamam, Beauty and a great deal more. Check the website for details....[more]
LUDWIG FORUM
[LEI: Aachen, October 2]
There will be an exhibition through October 28 of the works of Tanja Bogo at the Ludwig Forum on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:00 to 18:00, on Thursdays from 12:00 to 20:00, and on Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00....[more]
THEATRE STARTER
[LEI: Aachen, October 2]
Theater Starter is a regional cultural policy of the German state that allows children and young people in the Aachen region to learn about the theatre for a whole season. The choice of theatre and production depends on the differing...[more]
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