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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
[EDIT: Eijsden, November 14]
Liège-trained Eupen lawyer Serge Brammertz is to be the new chief prosecuting counsel at the UN-Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to be awarded next year’s (2008) Charlemagne Prize in Aachen
Hans...[more]
MATCHING HUBS
[EDIT: Liège, November 6]
November saw an interesting exchange between two potential partner hubs, Metro Atlanta, in Georgia, and Meuse-Rhine in Liège. A strong Atlanta presence, including bankers, lawyers and business development specialists, was welcomed by...[more]
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AMB INSURANCE GROWS FAST
[BIZ: November 15]
In the first nine months of the current year, the AMB Generali Group achieved a net profit of EUR 322m and continued to expand its market share in the insurance business. Including the extraordinary impact from the forthcoming change of the...[more]
BORDER LOCATION AND STATS
[BIZ: Aachen, November 14]
AGIT, the Aachen Development company is going to send 12,000 questionnaires to business in Belgium, The Netherlands and North-Rhine Westphalia to ask whether the advantages of a border location are recognized and being adequately used....[more]
VENTURE CAPITAL FOR CLIENTS
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 13]
LVAB and LRM give a seminar on “Risk Capital Fit for your Client” on Monday December 10, starting at 16.30 hrs at the Résidence Stiemerheide in Genk. Three Limburg companies will tell their story about why they decided to use the...[more]
ABP MERGES WITH CORDARES
[BIZ: Heerlen/Amsterdam, November 13]
The Dutch public service pension fund (ABP) and Cordares are speaking of a merger. The new company will administer a pension capacity of nearly EUR 250 billion for almost 4 million people. At the moment, ABP from Heerlen...[more]
ENERGETICON
[BIZ/INFRA: Alsdorf, November 12]
The Energeticon in Alsdorf is part of the EuRegionale 2008 program and the tri-national initiative to promote economic development, regional development and cultural tourism in the tri-point region and it will take the form...[more]
OSTBELGIENINVEST
[BIZ: Eupen, November 10]
Robert Nelles from St. Vith is the new president of the venture capital company Ostbelgieninvest. He is currently director of the employment authority, . He will be following Berni Collas. The vice president will be Yves Noël, who will...[more]
FOOD QUALITY PROGRAM
[BIZ/EDU: Eupen, November 10]
Evelyne Mertens writes in the Grenz Echo that in recent years the food standards have been raised and there are various institutions in Meuse-Rhine that are trying to monitor and improve quality in the catering and food sector....[more]
CHRISTMAS IN VALKENBURG
[BIZ: Valkenburg, November 9]
From November 16 through January 5, Valkenburg is going to change into the center of Christmas in The Netherlands, with Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol, The Christmas Parade, the Route d’Amuse and all sorts of other things, including...[more]
HANSEN TRANSMISSIONS IPO
[BIZ: Antwerp/Lommel, November 9]
Hansen Transmissions, the international that builds gear boxes for wind turbines, is intending an IPO on the London Stock Exchange. They are looking to raise between EUR 500m to EUR 800m. Hansen wants to meet the growing demand...[more]
PORSCHE CENTER
[BIZ: Aachen, November 9]
In December 2008 a new 7,000m2, EUR 4.4m Porsche Center is to be built on the Europaplatz in Aachen. Currently they’re selling 500 new and used vehicles annually, with this new center its expected that the sales and activities will...[more]
VODAPHONE PRE-PAID INCENTIVES
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 9]
From November 12 Vodafone Netherlands will be giving incentives to its customers. Every pre-paid subscriber of over EUR 20 will receive 15 minutes extra time or 50 free text messages. In practical terms, this means a saving of about...[more]
TESSENDERLO SUCCESSES
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, November 9]
The Tessenderlo group quadrupled its profits in the first nine months of this year. The department achieved two thirds of the total profit in the summer quarter. This is primarily a result of PVC activities which, for the first...[more]
MODERNA INVESTS EUR 22M
[BIZ: Beringen-Paal, November 8]
The Moderna printers is investing EUR 22m in doubling its surface area. This will lead to between 10 and 15 new jobs. The rotation printers are also going to be producing leaflets. It’s a family company that’s celebrating its...[more]
FLIGHTCARE TO INVEST EUR 20M
[BIZ: Brussels, November 8]
Flightcare, which provides airport services, is to invest almost EUR 20m in the next three years at Brussels, Ostend and Liège. Flightcare is focusing on the growth of long-distance flights and an increase in the number of charters...[more]
LRM INVESTS IN CLEAN AIR
[BIZ: Hasselt/Borgloons, November 8]
IPEC NV from Borgloon is a specialist in odor control technology, filtration, purification and absorption. It’s concerned with purifying waste water and its new technology is called Green Scrubbers, which no longer uses chemicals....[more]
AACHEN INNOVATION DAY
[BIZ/GOV: Aachen, November 8]
Aachen’s Innovation Day will be held on December 13 at the Technology Center, AGIT, on the Europaplatz.As an INSTI (innovation partner), AGIT has been organizing the Innovation Day since 2004 on various topics. The Innovation ...[more]
A TASTE OF LIMBURG
[BIZ: Maasmechelen, November 7]
A Taste of Limburg will open on Saturday, November 24 at the Maasmechelen Village shopping center where the focus will be on local products. Not just speculaas, Jenever and beer; but a whole range of things you’ve never thought...[more]
EAST BELGIAN SEARCH ENGINE
[BIZ: Eupen, November 7]
Xara is the local search engine for eastern Belgium. It is new on the www.netecho.info Internet portal. Currently Xara has archived 600,000 documents from 100 Belgian websites. This machine is able to index and search 50 million documents....[more]
EFFECTIVE BUSINESS NETWORKING
[BIZ: Aachen, November 7]
On December 4, 2007 the WCT Heerlen-Aachen is organizing a business meeting on ‘Effective Business Networking’ at Avantis for the second time. Participants will have eight meetings during a two-hour period, and in each meeting they...[more]
ECN’S SOLAR ACADEMY
[BIZ/EDU: Petten, November 7]
The Energy and Research Center of The Netherlands (ECN) and its partner Solland Solar Energy, the Limburg development company LIOF and the Institute of Semiconductor Electronics of the RWTH University Aachen, plan to establish a...[more]
22 INTERESTED IN OOIT TONGRES
[BIZ: Tongres, November 6]
Plinius Real Estate has received 22 requests for a prospectus of the Ooit Tongres Park, whose operators recently decided that they would not be able to go ahead with the idea and so they are looking for new candidates. ...[more]
MITHRA LOOKS TO INDONESIA
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Liège, November 5]
The Liège pharmaceutical company Mithra, which specializes in women’s hygiene and health, is going to conclude a contract in Indonesia. Mithra is going to market a hormone spiral. This product will be commercialized in 2010...[more]
CENTRICA TARGETS BELGIUM
[BIZ: London, November 5]
The British engineering group Centrica is interested in the Belgian gas pipeline company Distrigas. This has to be sold off as a result of the merger between Suez and Gaz de France. Centrica wants to implement its preferential right...[more]
PROMARK STRATEGIES CALL CENTER
[BIZ: Liège, November 5]
The company ProMark Strategies is going to start up a call center in Liège for its activities in Belgium, France and The Netherlands. ProMark specializes in customer relations for international hotels. The call center will, in the first...[more]
DSM, CRUCELL & RECEPTA
[BIZ: Heerlen, November 5]
DSM Biologics, a business unit of DSM Pharmaceutical Products and Crucell NV, announced that they have signed a non-exclusive PER.C6® technology research licensing agreement with Brazilian-based Recepta Biopharma S.A. This agreement...[more]
GALLER CHOCOLATES EXPAND
[BIZ: Pepinster, November 5]
Galler Chocolates are expanding their production location near Pepinster by 75% and they will be running three shifts. Galler sells its chocolates worldwide but would like to extend the range of its products. It views the Near East...[more]
MICROSOFT IN NUTH
[BIZ: Nuth, November 3]
Karel Crombach, who was with LogicaCMG for ten years, has now moved on as Sales Director for the manufacturing market in Europe, The Middle East and Africa for the Microsoft Corporation. The manufacturing sector covers automotive and...[more]
LRM BUYS 15% IN DI LEGNO
[BIZ: Genk, November 3]
KBC Private Equity is taking over the Di Legno Interiors stake. Koen van Brabant, the CEO and shareholder of Di Legno, is moving into the new business. Commercial director Ben Soers will also be a stakeholder. The business was established...[more]
TAX CUTS INVESTMENT
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, November 3]
If the plans of Minister Bos, the Dutch Minister of Finance, are implemented, imposing corporation tax (VPB) on the housing corporations from 2008, it will cost these corporations around EUR 900m in Limburg over the next decade....[more]
SPE INVESTS IN GAS TURBINES
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, November 2]
SPE, which is known under its brand name of Luminus, is investing further in production facilities. SPE has a quarter of Belgian families as customers but only represents 9% of Belgium’s electric power production establishment...[more]
SERVATIUS IN EDUCATION
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, November 2]
The Maastricht housing corporation Servatius is concerned with education. The Service and Maintenance Dept, which looks after rental property, is often looking for students who want to qualify in the skilled trades, as a plumber...[more]
CO2 PLANT AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Sittard, November 2]
At the Chemelot campus in Geleen there is to be a new CO2 plant built by Carbolim. Carbolim is a joint venture of ACP and Air Liquide. Both companies have plants at Chemelot. BAM will start construction in the near future with completion...[more]
EVS GETS RTBF CONTRACT
[BIZ: Liège, November 2]
Liège server specialists EVS have won a EUR 3m contract from the Belgian RTBF channel to equip television studios in Brussels, Liège, Charleroi and Namur with digital technology. The change will take place in 2008 and 2009. The business...[more]
MAA CHOOSES SIEMENS LED
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, November 2]
Maastricht/Aachen Airport has given instructions to Siemens Airfields to supply the latest technology in the area of airfield ground lighting. This unique energy-saving form of runway-lighting allows pilots to have a good view...[more]
MMA BUYS MERCURE HOTEL
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 2]
Maastricht Airport has taken over the former Mercure Hotel from the Accor group and passed on the running of the hotel to the Westerhout Group. The Westerhout Group will run the hotel under the name of Tulip Inn Maastricht Aachen...[more]
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MAANKWARTIER, HEERLEN
[INFRA: Heerlen, November 12]
The traffic hub in the Maankwartier is providing for an excellent flow of motor vehicles and bicycles from Zeswagen and GSM to the center of Heerlen. Work has been going on at the location for a year: a roundabout —Kloosterweg/Spoorsingel/Looierstraat...[more]
IRON RHINE – YET AGAIN
[LOG: Maastricht, November 9]
The Province of Limburg has done a quick scan of the eventual additional value of the N280/A52 variant on the Iron Rhine with the Iron Rhine Working Group for central Limburg. This is to compare the agreed A3 variant of a rail link...[more]
MAA CARGO MANAGER
[LOG: Maastricht, November 9]
As of December first Val Karren will be Air Cargo Development Manager at Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA). Mr Val Karren has occupied several positions over the past seven years for Expeditors International and has a great deal of...[more]
GERMAN LICENSED CAR IN BELGIUM
[LOG: Brussels, November 9]
In the context of a contract of employment, a foreign employer often provides employees with a company car. Employees of German companies who live in Belgium can, under certain circumstances, use their German-licensed company car...[more]
THE TRAM IS BACK IN MAASTRICHT
[LOG: Maastricht, November 7]
At the end of 2009 a start will be made on the express tram connection between the stations of Maastricht and Hasselt. It will cut the traveling time in half. Three years after the project starts, in 2012, the first trams will be...[more]
TNT AND RUSSIAN POST
[LOG: Moscow, November 6]
TNT CEO Peter Bakker, together with Acting Director General Andrej Konoval of Russian Post, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding. Mr. Bakker was accompanying the Dutch trade mission to Russia led by Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende....[more]
RAPID FREIGHT FROM MAA
[LOG: Maastricht, November 2]
Maastricht Aachen Airport is well known for its passenger traffic services, but FeMex Logistic Solutions is offering a solution for rapid freight up to 8,000 kilos, by air, from MAA. Major players in this market have already got...[more]
AACHEN RAIL LINK MEETS NEED
[LOG: Kerkrade, November 2]
The Euregiobahn is looking into a direct rail link between Kerkrade and Aachen. The kilometers of tunnels and bridges required would cost EUR 1m and the question is: who will pay for it? The Province of Limburg (NL) does not want...[more]
ANGER ABOUT IRON RHINE
[LOG: Roermond, November 2]
The rail manager ProRail has allowed an engine with rolling stock to traverse the closed section of the historic route of the Iron Rhine rail link to carry out repair work. The councilor for transport in Roermond, Gerard IJff, has...[more]
SECOND EUPEN HIGHWAY EXIT
[LOG: Eupen, November 2]
In the spring of 2008 the long awaited second highway exit at Eupen will be started. There will then be a direct highway link to the Eupen-Lontzen-Baelen-Welkenraedt industrial zone. According to the minister, a roundabout will be built...[more]
SOUMAGNE FIRE TEST
[LOG: Soumange, November 2]
The fire services of Liège and Herve have recently tested two fire combat units in the high-speed train tunnel at Soumagne. This special rolling stock can operate on rails and also on road surfaces and was specially developed to deal...[more]
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NEW AACHEN HISTORY
[EDU/LEI: Aachen, November 13]
On Friday November 23, the first print of Dr. Michael Römling’s book, “Aachen-Geschichte einer Stadt” will be presented to Mayor Dr. Jürgen Linden, in the Aachen City Hall. The book provides a light and readable history of the...[more]
SPECIAL MEETING OF MRE IN EUPEN
[GOV: Eupen, November 12]
In the light of a special meeting of Commission IV for Health, Social, and Community issues and security in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (MRE), Bern Gentges, Vice President of the German Speaking Community in Belgium and President of...[more]
25 YEARS LANGUAGE TEACHING
[EDU: Maastricht, November 9]
The Faculty of International Communication at the Hogeschool Zuyd is celebrating its 25th anniversary including 12.5 years of oriental languages and a great deal more besides on November 17 at the Brusselseweg 150 in Maastricht...[more]
STAVELOT OPPOSES WIND PARK
[GOV: Stavelot, November 9]
There is popular opposition to the seven 150-meter windmills proposed for Stavelot. There will be an official presentation to the municipality at the end of November....[more]
MAASTRICHT UP IN RANKINGS
[EDU: Maastricht, November 9]
Maastricht University has moved up 60 places on the International Top 200 rankings of the Times Higher Education supplement, which is drawn up annually. This year MU reached place 110 as against 172 last year. It is the fifth Dutch...[more]
CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS
[GOV: Berlin, November 9]
SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) is a Single European Payments Area in which all payments are domestic and where the current differentiation between national and cross-boarder payments no longer exists. Under SEPA, users of payment...[more]
EUROPE’S EXPERIMENTAL REGION
[GOV: Maastricht/The Hague, November 9]
The Dutch Minister of home affairs, Ter Horst, wants to deal with the issues that have coincide with a location along the country’s borders. For this reason the Meuse-Rhine Euregion has been accorded the status of a European...[more]
GIN-EUREGIO
[EDU: Landgraaf/Aachen, November 9]
The GIN-Euregio, through promoting, supporting and connecting the GIN-like activities of its colleagues and associates, GIN-Euregio contributes to efforts being made world wide to enable young people and adults to take responsibility...[more]
DUTCH PUPILS VISIT RWTH AACHEN
[EDU: Aachen, November 9]
On November 9, the University of Aachen held its fifth night of science and 150 pupils from Limburg schools took part in this. They came from the St Bernadinus College and the Sintermeerten College in Heerlen, from the Eijkhagen College...[more]
MSM SAUDI COOPERATION
[EDU: Maastricht, November 8]
The Maastricht School of Management has signed a cooperative agreement with the Prince Mohammad University in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. A delegation led by Dr Issa H. Alansari, rector of PMU, was in Maastricht to sign the agreement...[more]
FLOOD DIRECTIVE
[GOV: Maastricht, November 7]
In the Spring of 2007, the European parliament and the European Council accepted the directive on the assessment and control of flooding, or the European Flood Directive, and this will be implemented this year. The Interreg project...[more]
EUREGIONALE IN WURSELEN
[GOV: Aachen/Würselen, November 6]
The seventh station on the EuRegionale 2008 route through the tripoint region is in Würselen, where there is an information center....[more]
PRIX TERRITORIA EUROPE
[GOV: Aachen, November 6]
The City of Aachen has received the Prix Territoria Europe from the French senate for this year. It accepted the prize on November 7 in Paris from the president of the senate, number two after Sarkozy, Mr. Christian Poncelet. The prize...[more]
AACHEN ART INNOVATION PRIZE
[GOV: Aachen, November 6]
The Aachen Innovation Prize for the arts is going to the film director Peter Greenaway, whose Cinema of Ideas has written a film history. One of his performance evenings will take place in Aachen’s Ludwig Forum for International Art...[more]
MAASTRICHT U. IN CHINA
[EDU: Maastricht, November 2]
An eight-strong delegation left Maastricht recently for China to recruit students and make contacts. The delegation included Gerard Mols, the rector of the university; the president of the university, Jos Lemming; Tom van Veen,...[more]
HEALTHY EATING
[GOV: Maastricht/Venlo, November 2]
There is to be a seminar on school-going children’s nutrition, Towards Tasty and Healthy’ on November 28 in Venlo in cooperation with the Limburg development company LIOF, Syntens, LLTB and the Agro Food Community. The seminar...[more]
AACHEN ENERGY DAYS
[GOV: Aachen, November 2]
Aachen’s Energy Day program at the Eurogress in Aachen was successful. There were more than 135 exhibitors in the areas of new energy and drive technologies, with tips on saving energy, energy efficiency and innovative energy. There...[more]
NEW DG FOR EIPA
[EDU: Maastricht, November 2]
German expert on administrative reforms, Professor Dr Marga Pröhl (52), is the new Director-General of the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, NL. As of November 1, 2007, Marga Pröhl brings to EIPA her...[more]
DG DAYCARE FOR CHILDREN
[GOV: Eupen, November 2]
There is a great deal of interest in Belgium’s German-speaking family policy in North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. Daycare for children in the German-speaking community would seem to be better and Belgium is an example in this area:...[more]
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BIOSMILE
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, November 14]
BioSmile is a project to strengthen and promote the competitiveness of North West Europe in the field of biotechnology, through transnational cooperation. The BioSmile site offers a search engine called Collexis focused on companies...[more]
AZM & KLINIKUM BUILD TOGETHER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, November 14]
The Academic Hospital of Maastricht (AZM) and the Aachen Klinikum are still seeking to build together in the future. A study due will have to show whether the merger of the two hospital boards would be favorable. Earlier the...[more]
ENGLISH HYPNOTHERAPIST
[HEALTH: Zolder, November 9]
There is now an English-speaking hypnotherapy practice in Zolder, Belgium Limburg. Click the link to get further information....[more]
EU CROSS-BORDER HEALTH
[HEALTH: Eupen/Maastricht, November 8]
The EU Commissioner for Health, Markos Kyprianou, received information about cross-border cooperation in healthcare during a visit to the University Hospital in Maastricht. He was also witness to a live major arterial surgery...[more]
8TH BAESWEILER BIOTEC MEETING
[LIFE-SCI: Baesweiler, November 7]
On Friday, November 30 the 8th Baesweiler BioTec Meeting will take place in the International Technology and Service Center in Baesweiler (D). The current issue will be: Comparing subsidy strategies – objectives, implementation...[more]
DSM & KEMIN GROW LUTEIN
[LIFE-SCI: Las Vegas, November 6]
Kemin Industries, Inc. and Kemin Health, L.C. (Kemin), creator of FloraGLO® lutein the world’s leading lutein brand, and DSM Nutritional Products (DSM), the premium supplier of vitamins, carotenoids and nutraceuticals, announced...[more]
INTERACTIVE PRESCRIPTIONS
[LIF-SCI: Maastricht, November 5]
A PHD thesis by Jody Martens shows that interactive software influences GP’s prescription writing behavior. The costs of the medications that GPs prescribe can be reduced by 30% when they make use of a computer reminder system...[more]
VISIBLE MESH IMPLANTS
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, November 2]
The academic excellence network for Germany is presenting the work of the Aachen research group, led by FEG Textiltechnik, which is using nano-particles to make textile implants, in the case of scars or hernias, visible. This new...[more]
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JUELICH IN DARMSTADT
[SCI-TECH: Jülich/Darmstadt, November 7]
There is to be a next generation particle-accelerator complex in Darmstadt. This is the first stage in the facility for anti-proton and ion research which will link 15 states which will provide EUR 940m in funding. It...[more]
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TWO YOUNG HEERLEN CHAMPS
[LEI: Heerlen, November 13]
Ymco Brijker (19), who won the Word Jujitsu Championship title in Hanau and Nadia Lemmrich (17), who won the European Wushu Championship title in Warsaw, were both honored in their home town Heerlen, by Cor Duijf, alderman for Sports...[more]
ROBERT MENASS IN LUDWIG MUSEUM
[LEI: Aachen, November 13]
Essayist and Novelist Robert Menasse will read in the Aachen Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum on Monday November 26 at 19.30 hrs. Menasse will read from his novel published this year: “Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust”. ...[more]
AFRICA AND REALISM
[LEI: Maastricht, November 12]
There is to be an exhibition at the Kalpa de Boer gallery on the Traditional Image of Africa and at the Hugo van der Aa gallery on The Fantastic Realism of Ruud Helmers. The exhibition runs from January 19 through April 5, 2008...[more]
FOLK MUSIC VISITS US
[LEI: Vossenack, November 9]
Folk musicians from Vossenack will be going with the official delegation of the district Düren to Cambridge in Dorchester County in the US. This region in the state of Maryland has had a partnership with the Düren district for two...[more]
PLOPSA BREAKS RECORDS
[LEI: Hasselt, November 9]
The three Plopsa amusement parks in Belgium have achieved a record of 1.4 million visitors this season, about 260,000 came from The Netherlands. The parks are built up around the TV clown Plop. Plopsa Indoor in Hasselt had 280,000...[more]
AACHEN TO ARLINGTON
[LEI: Aachen, November 8]
There has been a partnership between Aachen and Arlington (Virginia) since 1993, and the long awaited Arlington sister cities association exchange exhibitions are about to begin with exhibitions of German and American artists. Aachen...[more]
ART SUPERMARKET
[LEI: Heerlen, November 8]
There is to be a special supermarket at the city gallery in Heerlen from November 24 through January 13, 2008. In this case it’s not just the exhibitions, but you can buy the art on display which will come from 120 artists and is highly...[more]
NAPOLEON’S ARMIES
[LEI/EDU: Weert, November 8]
There is to be a unique international symposium on Saturday, November 24 at the Munt theatre in Weert about Napoleon’s armies. It costs EUR 20 per person including coffee, Vlaai and a drink. The program begins at 10:00 and ends at...[more]
LIGNES INTERIEURES
[LEI: Liège, November 7]
There will be an exhibition of the unedited photographs of Philippe Lavandy at the Brasseurs gallery in Liège on Saturday, November 17 from 18:00. Lignes intérieures is the generic title proposed for this exhibition, which is a series...[more]
EXHIBITION AT IZM
[LEI: Aachen, November 7]
Through to the end of the year there is an exhibition at the International Newspaper Museum (IZM) in Aachen, which looks at Germany reflected in Dutch political caricatures from 1871 through 2005. The exhibition, organized by Koos van...[more]
CULTOUR MAGAZINE
[LEI: Aachen, November 7]
Cultour Journal, which is produced by an Aachen region municipality, comes out twice a year in three languages and is free of charge. The themes in this edition are: the Fourth Stolberger Museum Night, the Christmas Market in Valkenburg,...[more]
TEFAF STRENGTHENS POSITION
[LEI: Maastricht, November 7]
TEFAF, The European Fine Arts Fair, will be held next year from March 7 through 16 at the MECC in Maastricht. In 2008 TEFAF is launching a new initiative to promote talented young art dealers. They will have an opportunity to play...[more]
JAN LATINNE RETROSPECTIEVE
[LEI: Neerpelt, November 7]
There will be a retrospective exhibition of the work of Jan Latinne from November 9 through December 2 at the Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof in Neerpelt. Jan Latinne’s book (2000-2007), will be published in January/February 2008 and...[more]
LA RICARDA AT IKOB
[LEI: Eupen, November 7]
From October 28 through January 13, 2008, La Ricardo will be exhibiting at the IKOB Center in Eupen. The show runs from Tuesdays through Sundays from 13:00 to 18:00. ...[more]
DRESSAGE NEEDS CHANGE
[LEI: Aachen, November 7]
Frank Kemperman, the boss of the Aachen horseshows (amongst the most famous in the world), said that dressage must change. He made this comment in the context of the global dressage forum. He noted that for the general-public dressage...[more]
LIEGE CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA
[LEI: Liège, November 7]
On November 27 at 20:00 the orchestra and choirs of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Liège will give its first concert of the 2007-2008 season in the Salle Philharmonique in Liège. The program will include John Rutter’s ‘Gloria’, and...[more]
FIS ALPINE SKI EUROPEAN CUP
[LEI: Landgraaf, November 6]
Christian Flühr will be competing at the end of November in the FIS Alpine European Cup ski competition, in his ninth record attempt. He spent 104 hours on the skis last time and he is said to have spent 264 hours non-stop on the...[more]
EDWIN ZWAKMAN
[LEI: Aachen, November 6]
The Dutch artist Edwin Zwakman will be presenting his project-based series at Aachen’s Ludwig Forum from November 24 through January 13. Edwin Zwakman is investigating the relationship between reality, simulation and pictorial representation...[more]
CHAINSAW DESIGN
[LEI: Maastricht, November 6]
On Friday, November 16 at 17:00, Michele De Lucchi will give an exclusive performance at the NAi Maastricht. Lucchi uses a chainsaw to produce architectural shapes and can be seen in the Bogenzaal in Maastricht....[more]
SOUNDFALLSFESTIVAL
[LEI: Neerpelt, November 5]
There is to be a concert/sound festival at the Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof, Neerpelt, on Friday, November 30 from 19:00 to 23:00. It will involve music and sounds, including bird sounds. Check the website for further information...[more]
WORLD PRESS PHOTO
[LEI: Maastricht, November 5]
The best press photos worldwide are currently on view at the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. The photos are part of the World Press Photo exhibition which gives a selection of the best photos of the last year, and is viewed as a...[more]
EUREGIONAL FORUM
[LEI: Maastricht, November 2]
There is to be a Euregional Forum discussion at the Centre Céramique on November 21. The topics listed, in so far as they are intelligible, are: 1. What are the strategies that Meuse-Rhine can use to survive as a city region ...[more]
FATHER CHRISTMAS IN MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, November 2]
Winterland Maastricht will be bringing Father Christmas to The Netherlands from December 7. Everyone will be able to visit Father Christmas at his house on the Vrijthof from December 7 through January 6. This is sponsored by Vodafone,...[more]
PIERRE CUYPERS EXHIBITION
[LEI: Maastricht, November 2]
The architect Pierre Cuypers (1827-1921): famed and maligned. He enriched the Dutch landscape with dozens of churches, designed the "Centraal Station" and the "Rijksmuseum" in Amsterdam, and restored a considerable number of buildings,...[more]
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