The project is directed towards communication within the Enschede Stroke Service, and the PDA will for now only be used in case of a report of patients with a CVA (cerebro-vascular accident, or stroke).
The Dutch national union of students (the LSVb) has little faith in the future of the Netherlands as a knowledge country. This is the painful conclusion following the presentation of the Higher Education of Research Plan (HOOP) by minister Nijs recently. The ambitions in the HOOP will benefit a select group of students, there is no room for the rest. Moreover, the emphasis is on output instead of on quality of education. The HOOP is the vision and action plan of Higher Education for the coming four years. The LSVb has been involved in the realisation of the plan. The final outcome, however, is far from their dreamed future. `We have tried to contribute constructively', according to LSVb chairperson Floris van Eijk. `But with such an outcome we can do nothing else but advise parliament to be very critical.'
Kennistelefoon.nl is a hit. For the answer to the question how to saw sand-lime brick before it has gone completely off the Institut für Fertigungstechnik und Spanende Werkzeugmaschinen of the Technical University of Hannover had to be contacted. But all other 74 question could be answered in the region Delft. The website www.kennistelefoon.nl (`knowledge telephone') is a hit, and has helped 75 small and medium-sized companies with innovation since September.
In the technical innovation process small and medium-sized companies regularly run into problems in the fields of measuring, developing, or production. Whoever puts such a scientific problem to the website gets an answer from an expert within 48 hours. Payment is required only when further investigation or development is needed.
