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MICHELIN 2009
[EDIT: Maastricht, November 30]
Clearly in this capital of European gastronomy, it is excellent news to learn that, for 2009, South Limburg now has three Michelin two-star restaurants including Margot Reuten’s Da Vinci restaurant in Maasbracht. This makes her...[more]
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CO2 STORAGE
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 28]
An announcement has been made in Maastricht that there is to be a EUR 30m CO2 storage in Sittard-Geleen at the DSM Chemelot site. This comes hard on the heels of an observation by the Belgian Engineering Association and the Limburg...[more]
AWEX IN AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, November 28]
To improve relations with business in the Walloon country, the Walloon Export Agency (AWEX) in Belgium has decided to set up a branch in Aachen, turning it into an incubator for new business. This will provide infrastructure to locate...[more]
GREEN METROPOLIS
[BIZ/GOV: Aachen, November 28]
The cross-border partner project Green Metropolis has been recognized by the European Council for Spatial Planning in Dublin with the 7th European Urban and Regional Planning Aware for 2008 as the best planning idea in Europe....[more]
SHOES FROM AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, November 28]
The city of Aachen has 6.21 shoe shops for every 1,000 of its inhabitants. This is more than cities like Cologne and Düsseldorf can offer, they are stuck at four. The top locations in Aachen, Würzburg and Mannheim have made an impression...[more]
LIMBURG WINS COPA JEREZ
[BIZ/LEI: Bolderberg-Zolder, November 28]
Bart en Maike Van Hove, of the Prêt à Goûter restaurant in Bolderberg-Zolder, won the Belgian final of the Copa Jerez in Gent on November 27. The brother and sister Van Hove are now in the final in Jerez de la Frontera...[more]
XYZTEC GETS EUR 250,000
[BIZ: Panningen, November 28]
The XYZTEC Company will receive EUR 250,000 from Jérôme Verhagen of the Limburg development company LIOF. XYZTEC is going to develop a new micro impact test system for links in the semi-conductor industry. The company will be introducing...[more]
THE IRON RHINE AGAIN
[BIZ: The Hague, November 27]
Logistiek magazine notes that the Iron Rhine is to be open again on a new trajectory, this was presented by the minister Camiel Eurlings in a letter to the Dutch parliament’s Second Chamber. The trajectory will be the A52. Because...[more]
NEW BUSINESS PARKS IN JOOST
[BIZ: Echt-Susteren, November 27]
The town of Echt-Susteren is building a new business park at the crossing of the A2 and A73 highways. It will have 46 hectares of land, which will useful for companies in transport and logistics in an international context....[more]
NEW SECRETARY ELC LIMBURG
[BIZ: Venlo, November 27]
Peter Bertens left the European Logistics Center (ELC) Limburg in September this year and, since then, Marc Strookman has taken over the job. He combines this with this his position as a project manager for Regional Business Development...[more]
DOME CONSTRUCTIONS
[BIZ/INFRA: Liège, November 26]
Dome Constructions is presenting its form of the passive house at an exhibition at the Halles des Foires in Coronmeuse, as part of Habitat 2008. The term ‘passive house’ refers to a rigorous voluntary standard for energy use in...[more]
ELTEC EUR 3M COMPLEX
[BIZ: Genk, November 25]
Eltec in Genk, which specialize in the maintenance of electric motors, pumps and fans, has invested EUR 3m in a new 4,000m2 business complex. The new infrastructure is designed to optimize service for which they required more space and...[more]
CARBON HOTEL IN TOP 50
[BIZ: Genk, November 25]
The Carbon Hotel in Genk is, according to Forbes Traveler, one of the World’s best 50 new hotels.
Forbes Traveler is a travel website known all over the world. The Forbes Traveler 400 experts have each chosen their favorite new hotel....[more]
CHRISTMAS AT MODAVE
[BIZ: Modave, November 24]
Chateau Modave, a chateau in the 17th century French style and once the home of the Counts of Marchin, has some excellent Christmas ideas. The chateau is located between Namur and Liège, to the south of the Meuse near Huy. Check the...[more]
FINE FOOD FAIR
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 24]
In the last week of January 2009 Maastricht will be the gastronomic focus of the universe with the 51st edition of the BBB (the catering fair) and the 15th edition of the European Fine Food Fair (EFFF)....[more]
DG TOURIST QUALITY
[BIZ: Eupen, November 24]
On December 4, Belgium’s German-speaking community, headed by the minister Bernd Gentges, will be presenting a new quality offensive for tourism. There will be consideration for the countryside, for families, and a focus on soft tourism...[more]
6,000KM OF FIBER OPTICS
[BIZ: Aachen, November 24]
Aachen has buried 6,000km of fiber optic cable under the ground, not just in the city itself but also around the city. Unity Media has bought both networks for EUR 49m; EUR 7m was invested in the modernization of the network....[more]
MECCANO HOUSES
[BIZ: Liège, November 24]
The first seven of 33 steel houses with low energy consumption are ready to be taken into service in Jemeppe. Nothing can be seen of the unusual structure from the outside. The steel comes from ArcelorMittal via a subsidiary known as...[more]
LIEGE HOTELS
[BIZ: Liège, November 24]
There are a good many hotels being redeveloped or built in the Liège area. These include: - the Sélys-Longchamps (Mont Saint-Martin, 5 Stars) with 126 rooms;
- the Campanile Burenville, which wants to expand from 51 to 69 rooms; ...[more]
MALMEDY INVESTS IN CHRISTMAS
[BIZ/GOV: Malmédy, November 21]
The City of Malmédy is investing in the Christmas spirit in the heart of the town by investing EUR 100,000 in Christmas lighting. New energy-saving light bulbs will reduce the consumption of electricity by 60%. Another new feature...[more]
AUTOMOTIVE DEVELOPMENTS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, November 21]
Automotive developments in the Walloon country are sketched in their newsletter. They include activities in Russia by Free Field Technology, with Nanocyl and Samtech, who launched their activities during the Auto Component...[more]
SAVORY SALT
[BIZ/LEI: Hasselt, November 21]
Belgian Limburg’s tourist association is presenting a new salt at Flanders Expo in Gent from November 23 to 27. It includes marjoram, thyme, sage, and common mallow. This is added to sea salt, pepper, oregano and bay leaf. The...[more]
CEGEKA LOSES NEW BOSS
[BIZ: Hasselt, November 21]
Hasselt-based Cegeka, which covers the entire IT value chain, has, a mere two weeks after the departure of ex Dolman chief Jan de Ville, now lost its new chairman, Patrick Hendrickx.Patrick Hendrickx (42) arrived at the beginning ...[more]
TESSENDERLO CUTS PRODUCTION
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, November 21]
Tessenderlo Chemicals has reduced production, particularly in the area where it is producing sulphates. If this situation continues into the New Year there will be discussions with unions about temporary unemployment. Tessenderlo...[more]
WIRELESS THALYS
[BIZ/LOG: Brussels, November 21]
Thalys high-speed trains linking Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne will henceforth have wireless Internet. The first Thalys trains were equipped in May and since then more than 60,000 travelers have made use of the wireless...[more]
AACHEN INNOVATION PRIZE
[BIZ: Aachen, November 21]
At Aachen city hall, three companies recently received EUR 5,000 each for the Aachen Innovation Prize 2008 in the categories of foundation, growth, and skilled endeavor. There were 42 candidates.In the foundation category, Dr Helmut ...[more]
AMB: STRONG GROWTH
[BIZ: Aachen, November 20]
AMB Generali Group continues its strong growth – Group net profit
influenced by financial market crisis:Group grows faster than market – premium income rises by 5.0% Net profit drops to EUR 59m at end of third quarter due to ...[more]
BIO-FUEL POWER PLANT
[BIZ/INFRA: Troisdorf, November 20]
RWE Energy and the city power plant in Troisdorf want to build a modern bio-fuel power plant which will provide Troisdorf with heat and warmth. They have set up a subsidiary for the city of Troisdorf. The RWE will have a 51%...[more]
CONTACT CENTER ACADEMY
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, November 20]
At the initiative of Vodafone and the City of Maastricht a decision has been taken to establish a Contact Center Academy to train staff for call centers in the region. The intention is to provide better-qualified staff so that...[more]
RYANAIR STOPS AT MAA
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, November 20]
Ryanair has announced that it will close routes in and out of Maastricht airport as of January 8. The Dutch government’s ‘ecotax’ renders operations during the winter months unsustainable. The airport and Ryanair are negotiating...[more]
AMB SUPPORTS DVAG
[BIZ: Aachen, November 20]
The AMB group is the major stakeholder - outside the Pohl family – of DVAG (the Deutsche Vermögensberatung Aktiengesellschaft - German Financial Advisers) a multi-level marketing investment company based in Frankfurt, Germany.AMB ...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE MASTERCLASS
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 19]
Recent calculations have shown that the Netherlands leaves EUR 7bn of revenue unexploited in Germany. The reason for this is that there are a number of barriers that business people do not feel able to deal with. This is not just...[more]
BOMBARDIER JOBS THROUGH 2015
[BIZ: Bruges/Aachen, November 18]
Bombardier Transportation Bruges is going to assemble 115 trains for the regional ExpresNet (GEN) in Brussels. There is also an option for an additional 85 trains. This means employment security through 2015 for Bombardier....[more]
CADAC SOLUTION ACCELERATOR
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Heerlen, November 18]
The Cadac Group, a leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partner developing Organice, a SharePoint based engineering document management solution, announces the release of the Organice Solution Accelerator. The Organice Solution...[more]
REGUS PROGRAMS
[BIZ: Maastricht, November 17]
Regus, the multinational provider of flexible office space, has a subscription program that allows mobile staff to make use of Regus services, in all 1,000 business centers in 450 cities and 75 countries. The program has four different...[more]
DSM: QUALITY SEAL
[BIZ: Heerlen, November 16]
DSM has announced the launch of a new mark of excellence in nutrition – the Quality for Life™ seal. Introduced to guarantee ingredient quality, this concept responds to growing demand for reliable and traceable products which meet...[more]
LAST LIEGE OFFICE COMPLEX
[BIZ: Liège, November 16]
ImmoQuest has an exclusive location with 10,000m2 of office space in a complex of two older industrial buildings that have been entirely renovated on the Timmermans quay on the banks of the Meuse. It’s a delightful location, according...[more]
HOTEL DE LA COURONNE
[BIZ: Liège, November 16]
De la Couronne, a hotel that was closed in the nineties because it was not up to standard— opposite the Liège Guillemins station—has opened up again. It was bought four years ago by Laurent Minguet of EVS, and has now been completely...[more]
PARKSTAD ECONOMY AWARD
[BIZ/GOV: Kerkrade, November 16]
The Parkstad Limburg Economy Award 2008 has been awarded to Gosse Boxhoorn in the Parkstad Limburg stadium in Kerkrade. Gosse Boxhoorn was the CEO of Solland Solar Cells at the Avantis business park. The award goes annually to...[more]
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INFORMATION FROM THE MILL
[INFRA: Kerkrade, November 29]
A Green Metropolis information center will open at the Baalsbruggermühle, the only Abbey mill in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1106 and is recorded in the Chronicles of Rolduc Abbey. In the middle of the 17th century Rolduc...[more]
NEW BRIDGE
[LOG: Vroenhoven, November 27]
The new bridge between Vroenhoven and Belgium, which will be completed in 2012, has passed the test. The test involved 20 loaded trucks on the bridge, which the bridge was able to withstand. It gave way 14cm, but according to the...[more]
ARDENNES LOGISTICS
[LOG: Liège, November 24]
The Ardennes Logistics site is now fully leased out. The first phase of the new site at the crossroads of the E411 and E25 has been rented, not just because of its geographical location but also because of the quality of the facilities....[more]
HIGH-SPEED BRUSSELS–MAASTRICHT
[LOG: Maastricht, November 21]
The high-speed train from Maastricht to Brussels is a success. The route was started for two trial years. The train, which traveled on an hourly basis between Brussels, liege and Maastricht is now officially on the timetable in...[more]
SUPPLY CHAIN CERIFICATION
[LOG/BIZ: Liège, November 21]
SC21 is a program designed to accelerate the competitiveness of the aerospace and defense industry by raising the performance of its supply chains.SBAC (the Society of British Aerospace Companies), with its European partners, ...[more]
WIND-POWERED TRAINS
[LOG: Liège, November 21]
Belgian trains will soon be able to run on wind power. This is one of the plans of Belgium’s rail infrastructure company Infrabel, the energy company Electrabel, and six municipalities, Hannut, Gingelom, St Trond, Hélécine, Landen,...[more]
TRILATERAL MARKET COUPLING
[INFRA: Brussels, November 21]
The Trilateral Market Coupling (TLC) event has just celebrated its second anniversary. This inventive mechanism links Belgian, Dutch and French electricity markets and was launched on November 21, 2006, by the Dutch, Belgian,...[more]
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HOGESCHOOL ZUYD AND ESSENT
[EDU: Heerlen, November 27]
The faculty of technology of the Hogeschool Zuyd and Essent Network BV are going to cooperate. The Essent network organization will provide training in electro-technology and they will support electro-technological engineering. An...[more]
HASSELT LOKAAL
[GOV/BIZ: Hasselt, November 27]
Hasselt Lokaal has been nominated as the site of the year in an election organized by the Internet magazine, Clickx. Anaxis set up Hasselt Lokaal with the media group Concentra in 2004. Volunteers have been providing news about...[more]
PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
[EDU: Maastricht, November 26]
Rein Willems, former president–director of Shell NV and current member of the Dutch Senate and Christian Democratic party (CDA), will argue for a targeted approach to innovation in the Van der Grinten lecture for 2008. “The time...[more]
WHERE LIMBURG NARROWS
[GOV: Sittard, November 26]
The first regional brochure for the western mining region and Echt-Susteren has been published. It covers the narrowest part of the Netherlands, surrounded by Germany and Belgium, where the South Limburg hill country begins in the...[more]
LIMBURG CROSSING BORDERS
[GOV: Maastricht, November 24]
On Wednesday, December 3 the Province of Limburg, Maastricht University and the Cross-border Workers Task Force for the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion are organizing are the ‘labor mobility in border regions’ conference. This third 'Limburg...[more]
DG BILINGUAL TOPPER
[GOV/EDU: Brussels, November 24]
A second issue of Key Data on Teaching Languages at School in Europe gives a clear picture of the language teaching systems in place in the schools of 31 countries covered by the Eurydice Network. It covers aspects ranging from...[more]
MEUSE RHINE DIRECTOR
[GOV: Eupen, November 22]
Hans Niessen, a green-minister in Belgium’s German-speaking region, is to be the first director of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. The 58-year-old Niessen was selected from an international group of 51 applicants. He has led the Euroregional...[more]
ANTOINE PLATEN EURADA VP
[GOV: Brussels, November 21]
Antoine Platen from Maastricht, the director of LIOF business centers, has been elected a first vice-president of Eurada. He was appointed for a three-year period at a meeting in Brussels. Eurada is a European cooperative association...[more]
SINGLE PERMIT BLUE CARD
[GOV: Brussels, November 20]
The European Parliament has accepted a proposal for a framework directive to facilitate the admission of highly qualified migrants to the EU, creating an EU ‘blue card’.A second proposal is a directive establishing a single application ...[more]
ROAD SAFETY
[GOV: Maastricht, November 20]
The regional Organ for Traffic Safety in Limburg (ROVL) has signed the European traffic safety charter. This means that ROVL supports the ambition of the European Commission to reduce traffic accidents by 25,000 annually from 2011....[more]
MEUSE-RHINE CIVIL LAW
[EDU: Heerlen, November 19]
Judges from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany dealt with three civil cases for the second time, as a demonstration, during a study day organized by the Faculty of Law at Hogeschool Zuyd and the Ministry of Justice. This is in the...[more]
EUROPEAN FUNDS TO AACHEN
[GOV: Aachen, November 18]
In 2007 and 2008 79 applications from Aachen received 34 grants with a total value of EUR 50m. In Cologne the demand was for 50% lower, and in Düsseldorf the figure was even 80% lower than that in Aachen. Dr Manfred Sicking, in charge...[more]
MASTER CRAFTSMEN
[EDU: Eupen, November 18]
Christian Meyer won the competition for the master carpenter at a competition in East Belgium. The following next stage could be in the Crafts Olympiad in Canada next year. The results in these crafts in East Germany were particularly...[more]
SPEECH THERAPY
[EDU: Aachen/Heerlen, November 17]
The speech therapy department at Hogeschool Zuyd has entered into a formal cooperative agreement with the faculty of speech therapy at Aachen’s RWTH University. The classes will lead to a Bachelors degree in Heerlen and a Masters...[more]
MRE ARCHITECTURE PRIZE
[EDU: Aachen, November 16]
On November 8, at the provincial Hogeschool Limburg in Hasselt the 18th Euroregional Architecture Prize was presented. The prize is organized by Vitruvianum center for architecture in the Meuse-Rhine, and projects come from six schools...[more]
GORBACHEV AT ERENSTEIN
[GOV: Kerkrade/Herzogenrath, November 16]
Mikhail Gorbachev at Chateau Erenstein, with his granddaughter, to receive the Martin Buber medal, held a press conference there and then lunched with the mayors of Kerkrade and Herzogenrath, the Russian ambassador,...[more]
RESTRUCTURING HOUSING
[GOV/INFRA: Parkstad Limburg, November 16]
An agreement has been signed in Parkstad to plan a restructuring operation for housing through to 2020. 1,200 houses will have to be moved out of the stocks. This is a result of a miss-match between demand and supply....[more]
INTERNATIONAL PEDAGOGY
[EDU: Liège, November 16]
The University of Liège has created an international chair in Pedagogy, indicating the importance it attaches to this subject and it has appointed Jaques Tardif of the University of Sherbrooke, in Quebec, to this chair. The chair is...[more]
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CARDIOLOGY IN HEERLEN
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, November 27]
The Maastricht University Hospital is opening a cardiology center in Heerlen in January, for patients from Parkstad. Physicians from East and South Limburg will be able to send patients with complaints such as pain in the...[more]
UMC CANCER CENTER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, November 21]
Maastricht UMC+ Cancer Center was opened on November 21. The cancer center is an entirely new idea with a lot of contributions from patients. The most important characteristic is that it is multi-disciplinary. Care for cancer...[more]
POST-STROKE FATIGUE
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, November 18]
People who have suffered a stroke or CVA (Cardio Vascular Accident) are often extremely tired afterwards and this is the subject of research at the rehabilitation center in Hoensbroek and Maastricht. Check the website....[more]
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UNIVERSAL MASS
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, November 21]
An international team of scientists has for the first time computed the masses of one of the most important constituents of matter - protons and neutrons. The tool, which contributed the most to this calculation: JUGENE, a supercomputer...[more]
BIG SCIENCE
[SCI-TECH; Jülich, November 16]
In 2007 Jülich could look back on the award of the Nobel Prize for physics to professor Peter Grünberg, and to the new super computer and the JARA Aachen-Jülich research alliance.2008 has much to be said for it as well, with ...[more]
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GLASS PALACE SHOW
[LEI: Heerlen, November 29]
The Schunck Glass Palace is holding its winter exhibition ‘There are Tulips in the Mine’ by the artist Sef van Mulken (1930-1998), from Saturday, November 29 through Sunday, February 15. Mr Van Mulken, came from Stein and worked...[more]
SKIING SEASON OPENS
[LEI: Monschau/Eupen, November 24]
There are reports coming in from East Belgium and from Monschau in Germany which indicate that the skiing season is underway, outdoors as well as indoors. There are opportunities for cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing and...[more]
CHRISTMAS CONCERTS
[LEI: Maastricht, November 22]
On December 14 there will be a Christmas concert at 16:00hrs with carols by Benjamin Britten, accompanied by the harpist Véronique Serpenti at the ST Servaas Basilica in Maastricht. On Christmas Eve, there will also be Christmas ...[more]
RHEIMS AND AACHEN
[LEI: Aachen, November 20]
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rheims, Aachen’s partner city, is presenting master works of the Ludwig collection at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen through March 9, 2009. In the context of the French EU Presidency, the museum is accordingly...[more]
MUSEUM CONCERT
[LEI: Liège, November 17]
On Saturday, December 13 at 20:00 there will be a concert with Patrick Dheur on the piano of Gustave Serrurier-Bovy and Richard Pieta on violin. The concert is being held at the MAMAC (the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Liège...[more]
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