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LIEGE’S URBAN AGGLOMERATION
[EDIT: Liège, December 17]
It is frequently the case, in the modern world, that large industrial/commercial and government centers tend to provide employment, retail facilities, and entertainment to a larger hinterland. What happens is that the employed and...[more]
INTRINSICALLY REASONABLE
[EDIT: Liège, December 16]
Mr Herman Van Rompuy accepted the invitation to speak to the Grande Liège in December and now, for the first time, the president of the council of the European government will speak in Liège and to Grande Liège. Surely a more suitable...[more]
WINGS OVER CHINA
[EDIT: Liège, December 16]
A new book, in fact a trilogy, is being published about the pioneering role played by a Liège pilot in China at the beginning of the century. The first part of the trilogy, is called ‘Les Pianistes du Fleuve’, has been published and...[more]
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TRIANEL WINDMILLS
[BIZ: Aachen, December 28]
The Trianel city works wind park in Borchem West 2 is to receive EUR 42.71m as a grant. This was decided by the EU Commission as a project to point the way, of which the company is rightly proud.[SR...[more]
ROYAL WALLOON OPERA
[BIZ/LEI: Liège, December 24]
The city council in Liège has decided to proceed, beginning with the development of the opera, which means enlargement and modernization and will represent a budget of some EUR 18m.
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IPTE BECOMES CONNECT
[BIZ: Hasselt, December 22]
The technology company IPTE is concerned with the construction of cables and modules and its new name will be Connect. This is a result of the sale of the company, of the Factory Automation with the automation division. Nine years...[more]
TOP COOK BOOK
[BIZ: Heinsberg, December 21]
Germany’s best cookbook doesn’t come from Berlin, Munich or Frankfurt but from Heinsberg. ‘Good Meat’, written by brothers Stephan and Wolfgang Otto of Otto Gourmet and illustrated by Thomas Ruhl, one of the world’s best food photographers,...[more]
RWE AND FRAUNHOFER
[BIZ: Essen/Duisburg, December 21]
These organizations are to work on Smart Metering, Smart Home, Smart Services, the development of energy-efficient research and harmonize with economic development. The members of the Duisburg in-house center for intelligent...[more]
LABOR MARKET
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, December 20]
In the new future the Limburg labor market will see major changes. New sectors will become important, educational levels will be vital and more people will have to be involved in the work process. This is the result of a RAIL...[more]
TRAFFIC SAFETY
[BIZ: Geleen, December 19]
Acaleph and the regional authorities involved in safety training have developed a special program for professional truck drivers, taxi drivers, etc. They gave an interesting demonstration of their program at the test track at Visé...[more]
IRIS GOES FOR SCANDINAVIA
[BIZ: Liège, December 19]
The technology company Iris from Liège, which specializes in document management, wants to expand its activities on the Scandinavian market. It’s looking for local partners and customers. Last year it entered the Norwegian market under...[more]
LIMELIGHT IN HASSELT
[BIZ/LEI: Hasselt, December 19]
There is an application out for the construction of a film studio called ‘Limelight’ in Hasselt to be operational in 2011. Three years after the first announcement that the Hasselt research campus’s film studios were to be built,...[more]
TANK UP AT MCDONALDS
[BIZ: Maasmechelen, December 18]
The McDonalds restaurant chain has opened a McCharge at its restaurant in Maasmechelen. This is a public charging station for electric cars. It’s the first in Belgium. Belgium wants to build up a network of electric charging...[more]
CROSS BORDER WORKERS
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 18]
Both employers and private businesses can ask questions on working between the Netherlands and Germany. These can relate to the laws on migration, social security, labor, labor conditions and tax. The meetings have been organized...[more]
HELP WITH GERMANY
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 18]
Each month the Limburg Chamber of Commerce will be working with the chambers in Krefeld/Mönchengladbach or Aachen on individual consultation days. This is to help Dutch business in the German market. They include for our area March...[more]
LIMBURG NETWORKING IN CHINA
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 18]
The Limburg Chamber of Commerce (NL), the Belgian Voka Chamber of Commerce in Hasselt and the Limburg Construction Confederation are organizing a networking mission for next year to China. The mission will run from May 12 through...[more]
WITH THE CHAMBER TO CEBIT
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 18]
There will be a trip to the CeBIT, the world’s biggest IT and telecommunications fair, in Hanover. The fair runs from March 2 through March 6. On Wednesday, March 3 a Boeing 737 will be chartered to fly the chamber delegation from...[more]
HASSELT CONSTRUCTION BOOM
[BIZ: Hasselt, December 18]
Ray Simoen reports on the development in construction in Hasselt on the new luxury apartments on the Grenzland Hallen and the blueprints for the new court building. There is the Radisson SAS, a trendy hotel, and the research campus...[more]
NEW COATING
[BIZ: Lummen, December 17]
The All Chemie Belgium company ACB from Lummen has developed a revolutionary coating against scratches on objects. The project is suitable for furniture, traffic signs, and there are other options on the way. It also resists condensation....[more]
FORD’S WINDMILLS
[BIZ: Genk, December 17]
Ford Genk has set up Electrabel windmills on its location in Genk. Electrabel started constructed the two windmills, which produce a total of four megawatts in electricity, the same as the power used by 2,000 families, and represents...[more]
DSM QUALITY INGREDIENTS
[BIZ: Heerlen, December 16]
DSM will be demonstrating its understanding of consumer trends currently driving the international food industry at this year’s FiE: health, natural ingredients and food safety/quality. The company will be showcasing its range of...[more]
STAR-APIC IN THE WOODS
[BIZ: Liège, December 16]
The Belgian Royal Forestry Association has chosen STAR-APIC for the acquisition, installation and maintenance of a geographical information system (GIS) as a result of a procedure in the context of the Interreg IVA Grande Region in...[more]
AIXIGO LINKS BUSINESS
[BIZ: Aachen, December 16]
Aixigo AG in Aachen, one of the leading providers of software solutions for banks in Germany, is expanding its business activities in the East Asian market. This will include continental China, including Hong Kong, and in addition...[more]
WARREN BUFFET INVESTS
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Liège, December 16]
Warren Buffet is investing in Uteron a spin-off of the life-science company, Mithra in Liège. They make Levosert, an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) - forecast to have a market value of EUR 500m with an annual growth rate of 20% to...[more]
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INLAND WATERWAY NEWS
[LOG: Brussels, December 22}
Inland ports in the Netherlands are to receive an extra impulse of 64 million EUR to improve quality and ease of use. Announcing the subsidy, State Secretary Huizinga of Transport said “When the economy improves, the inland shipping...[more]
MOBILE BUS TICKETING
[LOG: Hasselt, December 22]
The telecom operators Base and Mobistar have declined to work on the mobile ticket operation for the public bus company De Lijn. The Flemish Minister of Mobility Hilde Crevits announced. The problem is, in the view of the minister,...[more]
CAMPUS RAIL
[LOG: Aachen, December 20]
There has been a major discussion on a campus road-rail linking system. The argument underlying this is to link the planned extensions at the Melaten Campus and Campus West to the core of the university in Aachen and to work together...[more]
RYANAIR DOUBLES MAA ROUTES
[LOG: Maastricht, December 16]
The Irish company, Ryanair, has decided to add two destinations to its network from Maastricht Aachen Airport. The new connections are Faro in Portuguese Algarve and Malaga in South Spain. Together with the routes announced to...[more]
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DG PARLIAMENT
[GOV: Eupen, December 23]
It appears that the new building for the parliament of Belgium’s German-speaking region will be not currently proceeding because of the enormous rise in costs from an originally projected EUR 11.5m to what has become EUR 43m. No doubt...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE CENTER
[GOV: Aachen, December 20]
Minister Armin Lasche has brought a present for the city of Aachen from Düsseldorf. The North-Rhine Westphalian minister for generations, families, women and integration, passed onto mayor Marcel Philipp, at the city hall, a sum of...[more]
DUTCH CONSULATE IN DÜSSELDORF
[GOV: Düsseldorf, December 18]
As of November 17, the Dutch consulate general in Düsseldorf has moved to Sky Office, 7th Floor, Kennedydamm 24, D-40476, Düsseldorf. Telephone +49 211 179 3010.
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THE AACHEN POLICE STORY
[GOV: Aachen, December 18]
Stefan Gillissen, in an article in Dagblad de Limburger, talks about the Aachen police world and the appearance on the Internet of the stories of their work. You can find it at:
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AACHEN’S UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
[EDU: Aachen, December 17]
In contradistinction to what has been happening elsewhere, the Aachen University campus, a billion-euro project which has been planned, debated and discussed for four years, is now about to take off. In less than ten hours after the...[more]
DOC FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
[EDU: Hasselt, December 17]
Professor Jaco Vangronsveld, director of the Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Hasselt received an Hon Doc from the Agricultural University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria for his services to science and research into the...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE ANEW
[GOV: Liège, December 16]
On December 8, just before the change in the chairmanship of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, the directorate of the region approved a structural change in the organization. Two years ago the five partners decided to cooperate in seven important...[more]
WORLD EXHIBITION LIEGE
[GOV: Liège, December 16]
Liège is a candidate for the 2017 World Exhibition. The city council determined this unanimously. Among the initiators of the project are, in addition to the city, the group concerned with the economic position of the Liège region,...[more]
CULTURE AND THE ECONOMY
[GOV: Maastricht, December 16]
The Province is going to invest in the culture in the economy by bringing creative people and business together. This will be developed in the policy on culture and the economy for 2010 through 2012 which will the provincial executive...[more]
INVESTMENT IN COMMUNICATIONS
[GOV: Maastricht, December 16]
The Limburg provincial government has decided to invest EUR 400,000 in a reporting and coordination center for South Limburg. In the case of disaster, an MCC is the center of a regional crises organization. It ensures for example...[more]
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HYBRID PROTEIN
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, December 16]
ProGenosis is a biotechnology company devoted to the determination of protein interactions. Our proprietary technology platform is dedicated to developing efficient, innovative and convenient Bifunctional Hybrid Proteins (BHPs),...[more]
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BRAINMET
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, December 16]
BrainMet (Bioimaging of Metals in Brain and Metallomics) was inaugurated on December 9, 2009 as an innovative and powerful technology for dementia research. The analytical BrainMet Center of Excellence at the central division...[more]
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THIRSTY MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, December 23]
Thirsty Maastricht is an exhibition about the role of thirst and quenching it. You will read stories in Maastricht from Roman times until the present. You will be able to read stories and anecdotes about thirst, about thirst for...[more]
MAASTRICHT AT TABLE
[LEI: Maastricht, December 21]
From Monday, February 1 to 7, 2010 Maastricht restaurants during the Maastricht’s At Table period will open their doors to everybody who wants to enjoy the qualities of the gastronomic capital. During this week all participating...[more]
HANS VON AACHEN AGAIN
[LEI: Aachen, December 16]
The Austrian president Heinz Fischer is joining with the Czech president Václav Klaus and the German federal president Horst Köhler in the patronage of the exhibition Hans Von Aachen, which starts on March 11, 2010 at the Aachen and...[more]
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