Over the next decade the university grounds must become a scientific hot spot that links up better with the High Tech Campus and Strijp-S. As yet it is unknown how much of the said municipal crisis budget is going to this so-called Science Park. The plan of attack only states that the planned redevelopment of the TU/e campus is estimated to cost 250 million euros; the estimate comes from TU/e.

The university was not involved in fleshing out this plan of attack, as Peter van Dam, spokesman for the Executive Board, informs us. “We did not know anything at all about this plan of attack for the credit crisis. Until now the interference of the municipality with our building plans around the W hall has resulted in a cost overrun of twelve million euros. That the municipality now seems to be planning to set aside funds, is new to our ears. Of course we would be quite pleased with that.”

Resolution
The leader of the Science Park project, ir. Herman Rikhof, was not aware of the plan of attack either. “We are still drafting a development vision for the Science Park. That is going according to our planning.” In October the municipal council will adopt a resolution about the development vision, which must serve as a basis for a new zoning plan for the TU/e campus.

Expat Center
In addition to the Science Park, the plan of attack also mentions the establishment of the Brabant Expat Center: a physical and digital center that will provide foreign employees (knowledge workers and work migrants) with direct primary help with their residence in Brabant. The center must help expats with practical matters such as work and residence permits and child benefit.

For questions of this kind, international TU/e staff members can now already turn to the HR officials of their own Departments. These officials are assisted in this task by a small international back office at the Personnel and Organization Department ./.