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Academia Vitae: the showroom of technology
Saxion has started with the Saxion Academia Vitae new
style. All academies participate. Forty productions have
been programmed to show what Saxion has to offer in
the field of innovative technology. “This has to be a
showroom. A shopping window that shows what Saxion
has on offer”, says Rients Jorna, who is responsible for
the Academia Vitae.
The Saxion Academia Vitae is a follow-up of Studium Generale,
which has been held since the nineties. However, the purpose
of the Academia Vitae is to get a more mixed audience. The
forty productions should attract about a thousand visitors
all together. Where Studium Generale was mostly held in
Deventer, the activities of the new Academia Vitea will be held
in Enschede, Hengelo and Apeldoorn as well. Jorna: “We have
the possibility of organizing the meetings in the Saxion theater
rooms, but there is also a possibility of arranging meetings in
bars or cafés outside of the University. For example at the city
archives or at the Athenaeum library in Deventer. Or we could
arrange something with a company.”
The main difference compared to Studium Generale is that the
Saxion Academia Vitae will have a bigger carrying capacity
among the Saxion Expertise Centres and academies. The
academies will have to organise two to three activities a year.
The new Academia Vitae is connecting with the ambition of
Saxion to be a University of Applied Sciences. The Academia
Vitae has to be the stage where research becomes visible. “We
expect students to develop into more reflective professionals
by visiting the Academia Vitae”, Jorna says. “In addition to that,
there is the possibility of sharing knowledge by discussing and
debating.”
A subject that should be a theme in all of the activities of the
Academia Vitae is innovative technology. Jorna: “The world has
to know Saxion is a star in innovative technology, which can
be seen in all of our curricula. Our students have to be aware
of this. It does not matter if you are studying to be a security
manager or to get a job in health care. New technologies are
found everywhere. Academies have to make their stories known
and tell what they are doing at the moment. They have the
possibility of showing all the good things Saxion has to offer.”
Dutch culture: Queen Beatrix
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She has been one of the most powerful women in
The Netherlands for over thirty years. Her name?
Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard van Lippe-Biesterfeld.
But most people will refer to her as the Queen of the
Netherlands. On the 31st of January she will celebrate
her 75th birthday. And the same as every year, the big
question arises: Will she stay on the throne, or will
she push her oldest son Willem-Alexander forward to
be the new king?
Foto: iStockphoto/Haags Uitburo
Beatrix has been the Queen of the
Netherlands since 30 April 1980. On
that day she succeeded her mother
Juliana, who was our queen for 32
years. In her early life, Beatrix visited the
University of Leiden where she studied
sociology, jurisprudence, economics,
parliamentary history and constitutional
law. In 1965 Beatrix got married to the
German Claus van Amsberg. It was quite
a sensitive marriage, as Clause used to
be a member of the Hitler Jugend and the
German Wehrmacht. It led to a protest of
a number of Dutch people, but through
the years Claus grew out to be one of
the most popular members of the Dutch
monarchy.
The last years have been heavy on the
Queen. She saw her husband pass away
in 2002 and two years later her father
and mother died. Also there was an
assassination attempt on the Royal Family
during Queens’ Day in 2009 in Apeldoorn.
Luckily, all of the members survived. The last misfortune was
the skiing accident of her second son Johan-Friso a year ago.
He has been in a coma since.
Because of all the misfortune in recent years, the question
rises how long she will continue her ‘job’ of being Queen. Her
son Willem-Alexander and his wife Máxima look ready to take
over the responsibility. But will it happen this year or does she
stay on the throne for a few more years? Only Beatrix knows
the answer… (WK)