{"id":111981,"date":"2020-04-02T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=111981"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:52","slug":"university-events-cancelled-until-1-august-eurekaweek-still-on-the-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2020\/04\/02\/university-events-cancelled-until-1-august-eurekaweek-still-on-the-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"University events cancelled until 1 August, Eurekaweek still on the calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erasmus University has decided to cancel or postpone all its public events until 1 August 2020. This applies to events held on campus and at locations that are not on university grounds. Student organisations are allowed to organise activities in the period after 1 June.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, the Executive Board sent out an email announcing that all events on the university calendar will be called off until 1 August at the earliest. The Dutch government has currently placed restrictions on public gatherings until 1 June, but the university has decided to extend this term by another two months. \u201cEvents in June, July and August need to be prepared in April and May\u201d, explained Hans Smits, chair of the Executive Board, during an Erasmus TV<\/em> broadcast on Thursday morning. \u201cAs you can imagine, people are occupied with other things right now. So it\u2019s mainly a question of priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Student organisations<\/h2>

All events organised by \u2018EUR organisational units\u2019 will be called off, in other words. This includes events on campus, but also events at other locations. This measure does not extend to educational activities, examinations or exams, thesis defences or PhD conferral ceremonies.<\/p>\n

For the time being, student organisations are free to organise public events in June and July. Smits also stressed that Eurekaweek, which falls in mid-August, will be going ahead as planned. \u201cA lot would have to happen before we cancelled Eurekaweek \u2013 a government ban, for instance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liability<\/h2>

As it is, the national government has prohibited public gatherings until 1 June. Essential events in the period 1 June-1 August have to be organised online wherever possible or otherwise postponed. Non-essential events in this period will be cancelled, unless this creates a risk of liability. This means that EUR would be held liable in the event of a cancellation, with the obligation to pay damages.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be unable to cancel an event if this entails liability or other financial risks,\u201d writes the Executive Board. \u201cThe only situation in which EUR could possibly invoke force majeure is a government extension of the ban on public events past 1 June.\u201d In this case, the university does recommend contacting the parties involved as soon as possible \u2013 to see whether it is possible to come to an agreement and postpone the event, or possibly organise it online.<\/p>\n\n\t

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