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THE PORT OF LIÈGE
[EDIT/LOG: Liège, July 30]
A recent trip on the unruffled waters of the Meuse to see various aspects of the Port of Liège demonstrated first of all that this was the way to travel, because it was comfortable, one could see the port from a different angle and...[more]
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EUROPEAN PARTY CATERER
[BIZ: Düsseldorf, July 30]
On July 30, the Maastricht-based, European Party Caterer Association (EPCAS) met for their two-day summer meeting. This time they are meeting in Düsseldorf, where George Broich (Broich Premium Catering) hosts this annual yearly event....[more]
DUTCH COURT BAN
[BIZ: Dublin July 29]
Ryanair has welcomed a landmark victory in the Dutch (Utrecht) Courts which ruled that copying flight information from Ryanair’s website for the purpose of reselling flights by Internet reseller Wegolo was unlawful.The Dutch court ruled ...[more]
DNA METHYLATION BIOMARKERS
[BIZ: Madison, Wis. and Liège, Belgium, July 27]
Exact Sciences Corp. and OncoMethylome Sciences S.A. have announced that they have entered into a license agreement under which Exact Sciences has obtained exclusive, worldwide rights to up to two OncoMethylome...[more]
FSI COURSES
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, July 26]
FS Innovators BV at Tongersstraat 20 in Maastricht are holding a course on commodity risk management where Professor Pennings will teach the annual Dutch Commodity Risk Management Course in cooperation with the Wageningen Business...[more]
ELECTRONIC BUSINESS NETWORK
[BIZ: Cologne, July 26]
A study of e-business in SMEs, in the trade sector, investigating their experience and requirements, was carried out in 2005 and asked 3,000 SMEs on an annual basis about their information requirements in respect of e-business. The study...[more]
INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Louvain/Geleen, July 23]
TiGenix is publishing information in accordance with articles 15, 18 and 29 of the Belgian Act of May 2, 2007 and the Royal Decree of February 14, 2008, regarding the publication of major holdings in users whose securities...[more]
ALRO IN SOLAR ENERGY
[BIZ: Dilsen-Stokkem, July 23]
The automotive supplier Alro in Dilsen-Stokkem is going to cover its roof with 13,000m2 of photovoltaic panels and the green energy produced will be 27% of its power consumption; this means a reduction in the CO2 emissions of 36,000...[more]
TERRACE TOP 100
[BIZ: Maastricht, July 23]
The terrace (or patio) of ‘de Mangerie’ in the hotel bar Le Club d’Artagnan of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Maastricht has been placed in the Top 100 Terraces in the Netherlands. With its unique location directly on the banks of the River...[more]
THIRD ENERGY DIALOGUE
[BIZ: Alsdorf, July 22]
Following the successful premier of ENERGYMILE (ENERGIEMEILE) and ENERGYDIALOGUE (ENERGIEDIALOG) in 2008, there was ENERGETICON, and now in the first weekend of September, there will be the third in a sequence of energy dialogues on current...[more]
ELECTRIC CAR
[BIZ: Cardiff, July 22]
AutomotiveWorld.com’s latest report ‘The electric car report (2nd edition)’ examines the current situation with respect to electric vehicle, range-extended electric vehicle and hybrid-electric concepts and models that are already in,...[more]
EUR 3.7 M FOR DURABILITY
[BIZ/GOV: Brussels, July 22]
The Environment and Energy technology Innovation Platform (MIP) has awarded 13 ‘green’ projects a total of EUR 3.7 million for research into durable technologies, products and services. The focus in these projects is on the Cradle-to-Cradle...[more]
RYANAIR: 400,000TH PASSENGER
[BIZ: Maastricht, July 21]
Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fare airline celebrated the departure of its 400,000th passenger at Maastricht Aachen Airport on July 21. The passenger, Mrs. Renate Offergeld from Aachen was traveling with her nine-year-old son Konstantin...[more]
GERMAN-DUTCH BUSINESS PRIZE
[BIZ: The Hague, July 20]
Innovative businesses can, in future, compete for the German-Dutch Business Prize. This well-known distinction is presented by the German-Dutch Chamber of Commerce in The Hague. It honors businesses from both countries that have demonstrated...[more]
INTERNATIONAL ED
[BIZ/EDU: Aachen, July 20]
The Aachen chamber is concerned with education, not merely with markets but the education has long been globalized and questions about foreign cultures and languages, different ways of life, pleasure, interest in a particular branch...[more]
CIRO+ PRIVATE COMPANY
[BIZ/HEALTH: Maastricht, July 20]
Maastricht University Hospital (AZM) and Proteion Thuis, Horn is to become a center for expertise in chronic organ failure in the South East Netherlands as CIRO+. The choice of a private company is to enable a more rigorous...[more]
XDC SCREENS IN GERMANY
[BIZ: Liège, July 19]
Cineplex, one of the large German cinema circuits, and the Belgian VPF service provider XDC have agreed on the conditions of a digital roll out of 451 Cineplex screens. The German integrator FTT played an important role in the pre-negotiations...[more]
MASTERS TO UNIVERSITY
[BIZ: Brussels, July 19]
The Belgian Minister of Education Pascal Smet has decided that courses that lead to a Masters degree will in future, from 2013 to 2014 on, be given at the universities instead of the colleges known in Belgium as ‘hogescholen’. These...[more]
TRADE MISSION TO INDIA
[BIZ: Maastricht, July 19]
The chambers of commerce in Meuse-Rhine are organizing a trade mission to South India from November 13 to 20 to Chennai (Madras) Hyderabad and Bangalore. Participation is open to companies from all sectors, in particular ICT, agri-business,...[more]
BUSINESS CLUB TO JUELICH
[BIZ: Jülich, July 19]
The Dutch-German Business Club is making a visit on September 23 to the research center in Jülich, one of Europe’s leading interdisciplinary research centers focusing on life-sciences, energy and the environment, and with special facilities...[more]
CHAMBER MEETINGS
[BIZ: Venlo/Heerlen, July 19]
The Limburg Chamber of Commerce offers personal consultancy facilities for Germany on Wednesday, September 15 in Venlo; for cross-border work in Germany on September 23 in Venlo; for the United States on Wednesday, September 29...[more]
TNT GLOBAL AIR NETWORK
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, July 19]
TNT Global Air Network has announced that it is launching a new Internet site and platform for its two departments based at Liège Airport. These are TNT Airways and the TNT Euro Hub.The site has been developed to provide complete ...[more]
VISE & LUMINUS GO GREEN
[BIZ/INFRA: Visé, July 16]
Visé has had a sustainable development policy for some years and contributes actively to combat the effects of global warming. On discovering that40% of the CO2 footprint came from private housingVisé made energy grants to private ...[more]
ALPAS HENDRION GOES REGIONAL
[BIZ: Elsloo, July 16]
Alpas Hendrion, which is concerned with the rental, maintenance, service and sales of internal transport technology including forklift trucks, aerial work platforms, telehandlers, aluminum scaffolding and related equipment, is decentralizing....[more]
OVERLOADING TIPPERS
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, July 16]
The Province of Limburg has signed an agreement against overloading that has been agreed by the greater part of the tipper-truck companies in South Limburg. The majority is represented in the tipper-truck department of Transport...[more]
BELGIAN PAVILION: EUR 7M
[BIZ: Shanghai, July 16]
The Belgian pavilion from the Shanghai World Fair has been sold to the city of Jiangyin for EUR 7m. The building is 5,600m2 and is going to be dismantled and rebuilt in a funfair park in the city. Belgium put EUR 12m into the construction...[more]
SHOPPING IN MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, July 16]
Hermès is opening in the first half of 2011 on the Percée in Wyck, Maastricht, and is to be linked to Martens, the jewelers. Another internationally distinguished brand, Paul Smith, will start in 2011 in Wyck, and talks are ongoing...[more]
SOLAR GENK
[BIZ: Genk, July 16]
Fifty companies in Genk have recently applied for photovoltaic panels in the context of a collective project from the City of Genk. This means a total of 100,000m2 of solar panels. This is part of Genk’s renewable energy project, which is...[more]
EUR 7M FOR DC
[BIZ: Tongres, July 16]
The distribution group Lambrechts in Tongres is going to invest EUR 7m in the expansion of its distribution center in Tongres, in the Nova building, for the Spar Express and Supra chains. Lambrechts supplies 400 local supermarkets in...[more]
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ELECTRIC BIKES FOR HIRE
[LOG: Aachen, July 23]
People with impaired mobility can rent electric bicycles from the station in Aachen. They are available for people with rheumatics, arthrosis, heart and circulatory diseases.
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CHEMELOT RAIL TERMINAL
[LOG: Sittard-Geleen, July 21]
The municipality of Sittard-Geleen is going to buy 34 houses in the Mauritspark district. The houses will then have to make way for a rail terminal on the Chemelot site. The plans are under development and the municipality has...[more]
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ANDORRA AND THE DG
[GOV: Eupen, July 27]
The president of the parliament of Belgium’s German-speaking community (DG) Ferdel Schröder and Prime Minister Karl-Heinz Lambertz received the Ambassador of Andorra, Imma Tor Faus, to Belgium at the beginning of the week.In the talks, ...[more]
HOGESCHOOL ZUYD EPC STANDARD
[EDU: Heerlen, July 23]
Three students who achieved a prize for their ideas about the Tomorrow’s district demonstrated that the energy performance standard which expresses the energy efficiency of new buildings in a number based on the building’s characteristics,...[more]
EURON
[EDU: Maastricht, July 22]
The European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) has been reaccredited by the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) as a research school for a period of six years from 2010 to 2016. EURON was created by a university network...[more]
ART SCHOOLS
[EDU: Liège/Maastricht, July 21]
Works of students graduating from Maastricht Art School and the Art School in Liège are going to be exhibited. Students from the ACA Liège are Sophie Body, Sophie Cohen, Julien Gobert, Thierry Hanse, Brice Michaud, Rocco Raone...[more]
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TOXICOGENOMICS CENTER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, July 23]
Researchers at the Netherlands Toxicogenomics Centre (NTC), a consortium headed by the Health Risk Analysis and Toxicology Group (GRAT) at Maastricht UMC, are far advanced in the development of three testing methods for chemical...[more]
PERCUTANEOUS REPLACEMENT
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, July 23]
Five hospitals have been given permission to carry out percutaneous heart valve replacement. The Netherlands’ regular surgery for heart valve replacement annually for an annual number of 500 to 600 patients is too radical. There...[more]
WORLD FIRST, AZM CARDIOLOGY
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, July 23]
Cardiothoracic surgeon Leen van Garsse and cardiologist Vincent van Ommen have placed a new tricuspid valve via the carotid artery in a 74-year-old woman. This is a first. The patient had an operation in which the two valves were...[more]
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SCIENCE FROM JUELICH
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, July 23]
Scientists at Jülich’s institute for the Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere (ICG) analyzes transport and conversion processes in the soils and surface near ground water with the objective of contributing to the sustainable use...[more]
DIAGNOSTIC OPTIONS FOR BRAIN TUMORS
[SCI-TECH: Jülich/Aachen, July 20]
Scientists at Aachen University Hospital and the Jülich Research Center have proved, in a case study, that an innovative diagnostic method can be used, at an early stage, to determine whether brain tumor treatment has been...[more]
THE FOURTH PROPERTY OF ELECTRONS
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, July 19]
Do electrons have a fourth property in addition to mass, charge and spin as popular theories in the physical sciences predict about supersymmetry? Researchers in Germany, the Czech Republic and the US want to solve this fundamental...[more]
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BELL’ARTE IN THE GARDEN
[LEI: Maastricht, July 29]
Art and craftsmanship in one: the art of sculpture is inextricably linked with the Dutch south and the Meuse Valley region. A visit to the Bonnefantenmuseum and its Romanesque and Gothic sculpture reveals that Maastricht played a leading...[more]
30YRS FOR BLEGNY MINE
[LEI: Blegny, July 25]
In the context of the 30th anniversary of the Blegny mine, on August 1 there will be a party at the site. From 14:00, the different communities, the product of the immigration of miners, will be saluted in a major multicultural parade....[more]
LIMBURG’S DUCAL PATH
[LEI: Eupen, July 25]
There is an old path through the Duchy of Limburg. It tells the story of the history of this area which leads through Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and has turned into the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion from the original residence in Limburg-sur-Vesdre...[more]
A SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
[LEI: Hergenrath, July 23]
On August 7 in the courtyard of Chateau Eyneburg, there will be a transformation turning this castle into a center of high-spirited Cuban music with Barbara y Vaiven Cubano, Mazacote & La Sonora Cubana, and Joelnize Silva. Contact ...[more]
WONDERLAND…
[LEI: Liège, July 23]
There will be an exhibition at Gallery Liehrmann from August 14 to December 19 at Boulevard Piercot in Liège. Wednesday through Saturday from 13:00 to 18:30 and on Sunday from 11:00 to 13:00.There are many artists: Jürgen LINGL-REBETEZ
André ...[more]
SAINT ROSA FESTIVAL
[LEI: Sittard-Geleen, July 23]
The Saint Rosa Festival, which starts on Friday, August 27 and goes through to August 31, is to be held in the center of Sittard, and is traditionally the finale to the summer events in Sittard-Geleen. There is music, Caro Emerald,...[more]
20 YEARS OF CULTURA NOVA
[LEI: Heerlen, July 23]
The Cultura Nova summer festival is taking place in Heerlen and the surroundings from July 23 through Sunday, September 5. Check the website for further details.
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MARCHING TROPHY
[LEI: Stolberg, July 22]
On Sunday, August 1 there will be a marching trophy with the Euroregional Foundations Marching Trophy in the context of their program from Stolberg-Venwegen and this will be in honor of the first century of the organizing body. The course...[more]
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