COVID-19

Everyone should check their HR email regularly. All official PZI/WdKA/HR communication will land there. For the rest use the XPUB list and chat. We will keep maintain this page as a digest and bookmark for all the important links.

General Info

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++21.04.2021

• from Monday 26.04 onward there can be classes held one day a week. [ I'm hoping this translate into 1-day for both @XPUB2 and @XPUB1 ]
• Tuesday 27.04 is King's day and the building is closed
• Wednesday 28.04 the lockdown officially lifts and both the Blaak and WH buildings will stay open until 10 pm - [out by 21:50]
• -and after the may break the stations will be open until 10 pm as well.

• nothing changes for Saturdays, 20 students need to register or the building stays closed.

[register at the WH reception desk or call (010) 794 47 47 before 18:00 the Wednesday before, remember your to state your student number, if the Saturday doesn't fill you will be nodified via your HR email account on Thursday or Friday]

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++11.02.2021 - quote: communiqué: Curfew - Workplace - COVID-19 Protocol

Curfew

• The outgoing cabinet has decided to extend the curfew until 2 March. This means that we will continue our policy since the curfew was introduced: our buildings will close at 19:00 at the latest, giving everyone ample time to return home before 21:00.

Reporting Covid-19 infection

• Since last month, reporting Covid-19 infections to the school is completely anonymous and voluntary. We ask you to do this for us to form a picture of the number of infections within Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. In this way we can monitor possible clusters which we will pass on to the GGD as with the locations and how measures can be taken.

To this end you can make use of this Hint page. This allows us to safeguard the safety and health of our students and staff in the best way possible. This flow chart shows what steps to take when you are or could be infected with Covid-19.

• hint: https://hint.hr.nl/nl/HR/english/study-information/study-help/my-personal-situation/registration-corona-infections/
• protocol: https://www.rotterdamuas.com/contentassets/b803b4ab44124bd0a76e74bc2203b695/flowchart-corona-eng-v06-020221.pdf

• 4th floor opening hours:https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Calendars:Networked_Media_Calendar/Networked_Media_Calendar/07-02-2021_-Event_3

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++15.01.2021 quote: communiqué: Workplace Lockdown Protocol January 14 - February 9, 2021

Master students continue to have access to their own studios. They can also book individual working spaces in the Stations using Planning & Reservations. 

• All educational activities that do not require the facilities and support of the Stations must take place online.

• All on-site educational activities and individual workspaces need to be booked through Planning & Reservations.

https://wdka.asimut.net/public/login.php?url=%2Fpublic%2F%3Futm_medium%3Demail

• These educational activities will be scheduled in Planning & Reservations, and all participating students must be registered for each relevant educational activity, which in turn will allow these students and tutors access to the building and facilities.

• Students can use Planning & Reservations to book an individual working space in the Stations (see explanation URL below). Students will be allowed access to the building on the basis of these bookings.

http://files.m10.mailplus.nl/user31000419/2835/Reserving_individual_workspaces_in_Asimut_P_R.pdf

• These educational activities will be scheduled in Planning & Reservations, and all participating students must be registered for each relevant educational activity, which in turn will allow these students and tutors access to the building and facilities.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++14.01.2021 Aymeric posted this to Zulip and I thought it's something for the lists as there are a lot of alumni, family and friends in living Charlois. 13.01.2021 "just saw this in an email to HR/WdKA staff, not sure who of you may be concerned, but here it is anyway:

Lansingerland and Charlois In the municipality of Lansingerland and in Charlois, all residents will be tested for Covid-19. Some staff and students who live there have asked us whether you must go into quarantine if you have been tested but do not have any symptoms. The RIVM guidelines are clear: if you have no health complaints, you do not have to go into quarantine while waiting for the results. If you do have symptoms, you must stay at home until the result of the test is clear."

And I read in the news yesterday, "There is no major corona outbreak in Charlois, as in the South Holland municipality of Lansingerland. There, everyone from the age of two is called upon to be tested, even without complaints. It concerns more than 60,000 residents of Bergschenhoek, Berkel en Rodenrijs and Bleiswijk.

30 people infected with the British variant The 'British variant' was diagnosed in about thirty people from the Rotterdam-Rijnmond region. According to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), those cases are “largely linked” to the outbreak at RKBS Willibrord primary school in Bergschenhoek. The new version of the coronavirus is more contagious than previous variants of the coronavirus, but the mutation is not known to cause more health damage."

It calmed my nerves a bit for all you living and working in Charlois, hope it does yours too.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++02.10.2020 Mandatory Face Masks

• Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences has introduced a face mask requirement. It is compulsory to wear face masks in our public areas (public spaces such as the entre hall, in corridors, deWillem, hallways, stairwells, restrooms, library, etc. and, including the XPUB studio and the open area where alumni will return). This is to promote clarity and enforceability. To this end, the House Rules have been updated; the Central Representative Board.

• This does not apply to classrooms, where the existing safety measures are generally well observed. In the public areas, in addition to the face mask requirement, the rule to keep a distance of 1.5 metres, still applies, of course.

• Mayor supports our school policy

In doing so, the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences is following the approach of Ahmed Aboutaleb - not only mayor but also chairman of the Rotterdam-Rijnmond Safety Region - who is clear about the advice to wear face masks. He is pleased with the government's initiative with regard to face masks, but if it is up to him, it should not be restricted to shops and supermarkets, but should also be used in public spaces of buildings where it is effective. The Mayor therefore very much welcomes the school's decision: “In fact, wearing face masks should be the guideline for everyone in the region, for all places where many people gather”.

• It is everyone's own responsibility to have a face mask.

Official national and academy guidelines

• HR: https://www.rotterdamuas.com/go/information-corona/
• RIVM: https://www.rivm.nl/en/news/current-information-about-novel-coronavirus-covid-19

Protocol

In order to offer IRL teaching consistently, we will have to adhere to the rules of the RIVM, that most have you been following all along:

• First and foremost: stay home if you have any symptoms like head cold, coughing, tightness of breath, fever, sudden loss of smell or taste.
• Self-quarantine if any of your housemates have symptoms as mentioned above.
• Inform your course director and coordinator
• Get tested
• In case you must quarantine you will be able to follow teaching online and catch up.
• When at the academy, follow the rules of distance and hygiene.
• Follow the current rules set by Dutch government, both national and for Rotterdam specifically. You can find them here.

WdKA Support address update 01.03.2021

If you have personal problems, including financial issues, please get in touch with the student counsellors through email or telephone directly:

to make an appointment register here: studentendecanaatwb@hr.nl

WDKA/PZI student counselors are:

• Clariet Helwig: [temporarily not available Feb 2021] tel. 010 - 794 4252 email: C.P.Helwig@hr.nl, chatten: helcp@hr.nl
• Marit Lems: tel. 010 - 794 6720 email: m.j.lems@hr.nl, chatten: lemmj@hr.nl

Kralingzoom

• Eduard de Ridder:

mon- thrus https://hint.hr.nl/nl/HR/english/study-information/international-student-ruas/my-study/my-student-assistence/student-counsellor/appointment-student-counsellor/

XPUB/LURK Social Network

• video: https://hotline.xpub.nl
• XMPP chatroom: xpub@muc.lurk.org

Further Readings

• MAM's Pirate Care: http://syllabus.pirate.care
• The Syllabus' Politics of COVID-19: https://the-syllabus.com/politics-of-covid19-readings-part1/ (2 other editions avail)
• Hacking with Care wiki: https://hackingwithcare.in/wiki/doku.php/start