Eurekaweek 2021

Corona won’t be able to ambush the Eurekaweek board this year. Three different scenarios were already in the works during the winter. At the beginning of July green light was given for the ‘dream scenario‘. This didn’t last long however,, soon adjustments were being made again. For example, the evening program has changed.

During the International Day on Sunday, foreign students took a stroll around the campus, looking for information about student life in Rotterdam and new friends.

From the official opening in Ahoy to the rainy lunch in front of the Market Hall. After a round of getting to know Rotterdam, Monday ends again in Ahoy with the first Battle of the Faculties.

The rainy Monday turned into a rainy Tuesday. On campus it has not been this busy in a year and a half. At the information market (not on campus this year, but in the park Oude Plantage) it’s also raining steadily. In the evening the students are sitting dry in Ahoy, if they do not spill during the beer cantus.

Brunch by the pond is this year Brunch by the canal, and it’s at rowing club Skadi.Or Brunch on the Grote Kerkplein in front of the Laurenskerk. Either way, that meal is the basis for the festival day. On the Lloyd Multiplein, known to no one, is Wednesday afternoon the festival (with fixed seating) and in the evening the Guilty Pleasure Party.

Thursday is the day of the sports clubs. They can show what they have to offer today. The weather has been stable all week: grey, rainy and anything but summery. It does not discourage the students too much. The day and the week will be closed in the Neptunes Stadium with the Night of the Songs and banging fireworks.

The Eurekaweek was ‘the best week ever’, we hear several times from first-year students. The week was fun for sure, but did it go safely? We look back at the corona measures during the introduction week.