{"id":117363,"date":"2021-07-28T14:34:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?post_type=dossier&p=117363"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:02","slug":"eurekaweek-2020","status":"publish","type":"em_special","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/specials\/eurekaweek-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurekaweek 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eurekaweek 2020 started on 17 August and was – corona – a special, adapted edition. Every evening, the committee organised a talk show and during the week, the student groups were entitled to one physical day of meeting. The rest of the week was online. Among other things, on a Minecraft campus and in Teams.<\/p>\n

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Group 43 (from left to right) Maurice, Bart, Shaan, Nena, Nidi en Nadine<\/span><\/p>

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The preparations for the Eurekaweek<\/h2>

Because of Covid-19, it was unclear for a long time what the Eurekaweek would look like. Mayor Aboutaleb even threatened to cancel the introduction week altogether when it turned out that the number of infections among students increased during the summer months.During a press conference on 6 August, Prime Minister Mark Rutte finally laid down the ground rules for the introduction weeks at universities \u2013 corona edition: no alcohol and no activities at night. It also appeared for a while that student association SSR-Rotterdam was not allowed to participate in the Eurekaweek because of corona contamination.<\/p>\n\n\t

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