The Board of Governors have elected Mr Giancarlo Marcheggiano to be the new Secretary-General starting from 1.10.2016!
Giancarlo Marcheggiano was a deputy-director in European school Brussels 1 from 2001-2007. After that he was upgraded to director of European school Munich. In 20212 he became deputy secretary general of European schools.
Finally, Giancarlo Marcheggiano took over duties of secretary general of European schools in 2016 and still holds this position.
I was just informed by the Local Staff Committee that during the bacteriological analyses of tap water in May in CPE Mamer various cold and hot water samples contained seeds of legionella.
You might want to see the doctor if your children show some signs and symptoms.
UPDATED 05.07.2016 at 16.15
Today we finally received information from CPE Mamer:
Quality control of the tap water in the CPE buildings
Lately, OIL has received a number of concerning questions regarding the quality of tap water in the CPE, in particular
the presence of Legionella bacteria in the water. For OIL , the health and wellbeing of the children in our care are of utmost priority. One of the measures to ensure this priority are regular water quality checks in the CPE buildings. Because Legionella bacteria are naturally present in water, their presence is regularly checked in the water distribution system in all our buildings, including the CPEs.
There are several strains of Legionella bacteria: the most known by the public is the Legionella pneumophila that may cause respiratory illness, the “Legionnaire’s disease”. In the samplings made at the CPEs no trace of Legionella pneumophila was found. Legionella cannot be contracted by drinking contaminated water. One can only be infected by inhaling contaminated water vapour or fog.
Nevertheless, as a precautionary principle in the CPE buildings, OIL, in cooperation with the medical service of the Commission, applies a tolerance level which is 10 times stricter than the level applied in Luxemburgish legislation. Thanks to the stringent preventive approach, there has never been a case of Legionnaire’s disease in the CPE. This has been confirmed by the Medical Service.
Should we detect Legionella in the water, the tap concerned is immediately closed off. Bottled water, which is at the disposal in the CPE buildings, is distributed to the room in question.
Water taps are reopened only once the results have returned to normal (i.e. below the threshold). In order to inform parents about the preventive measures regarding tap water in CPE and to answer any questions they may have, OIL will organise a lunchtime presentation after the summer. Further information will be provided to you closer to the time.
ScholaEuropaea just twitted:
Mr Per Frithiofson (SW) has been appointed to be the new Director of the European School, LUXEMBOURG II starting from 1.9.2016!
The European Schools are an intergovernmental institution separate from the EU. If the United Kingdom left the EU this would not necessarily mean withdrawal from the European School system. Politically it is feared that the British government would also pull out of the ES since, in the negotiations on the current financial framework, it demanded the closure of these schools.
So, in the event of Brexit (UK leaving the EU), two scenarios:
1- The UK remains in the ES system, British parents currently employed by the EU keeping their rights to school education for their children. Normally, of course, there would no longer be British recruitment in the EU. The UK’s obligations concerning the supply of teachers would remain intact, but the UK has not been respecting them for quite some time now. The ES system would therefore unfortunately continue to patch over the lack of that recruitment by local recruitment or non-native speakers. In time the population of children of native English-speaking EU employees (Category I ) will plunge dramatically (there will of course still be some Irish and Maltese), renewal being partially possible through children of Category II or III. The existence of an ‘English’ section in all schools could then be called into question through the play of budget forces.
2- The UK leaves the ES system. The UK no longer supplies teachers, even if it could be hoped that those now in place were to stay on to the very end of their contracts (normally 9 years). The EU would remain obliged to allow access to the ES to all the existing entitled parties, including British. The presence of Ireland in the system provides the justification for the maintenance of an ‘English’ section and for offering English in languages II, III and IV. However, the existence of an ‘English’ section in all schools could swiftly be challenged, if only because of the play of budget forces and the dwindling population of children.
Director of European school Luxembourg 2 (or Mamer school) Mr Emmanuel de Tournemire decided to pay for another survey. This time it is about school transport. Again they care only about gathering data, spending money and pretending they are actually doing something important. They have no idea how will they use this data or if they will use it at all. Exactly like with previous surveys. A couple of years ago Mr de Tournemire paid PriceWaterhouseCoopers 20.000€ for a satisfaction survey.
It will be hard to collect statistically relevant data because:
And again they completely ignore personal data protection. This is the email I sent to the survey organiser, school director Mr Emmanuel de Tournemire and APEEEL2 president Ms Sandra Vella.
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Dear Mr Sprumont
I received an invitation for a survey that you prepared in collaboration with European school Luxembourg 2 and APEEEL2.
Since you are collecting personal data I’m missing important information about personal data protection. According to the European directive (EC) No 45/2001 and Luxembourgish 2002 Act., modified in 2007, every data collector should provide the following data to the data subject at the collection of the personal data:
Data subjects must, in addition, be informed about automated decision-making processes. The information must be transmitted, at the latest, at the time the personal data is:
I would kindly ask you to address this issue.
I do hope there will be some reaction.
UPDATE: 15.05.2016, 08.22
Mr Francesco Viti, head of the mobiLab group, which has set up the transport survey, kindly provided information I requested.
The data is collected and processed at the University of Luxembourg (UL), which is a non-profit legal entity where control of the data is guaranteed by the UL Ethical Review Panel.
As explained in the first page of the survey, and in the invitation email, the data collected is anonymised, and results are all processed, analysed and presented in an aggregated form. The purpose, as stated, is to have an understanding of the traffic and mobility issues currently affecting the School accessibility, and to provide concrete recommendations for improvements of both car and collective transport users to the responsible stakeholders.
All data collected is used solely for the purpose stated above. Only a restricted number of UL researchers involved in the initiative (Mr Sprumont, Miss Scheffer and myself), the School Director Mr. de Tournemire, the President of APEEEL2 (Mrs Vella) and the Transport project manager of the School (Mr Tyrrel) may have access to the raw data.
Being anonymised, the data cannot be rectified once submitted, unfortunately. On the other hand, the respondents can modify their data at any time before finalising the survey.
We tried with the above responses to have provided the necessary information. We will make sure these responses are included in the survey, and we will specifically mention the EU directive and Luxembourgish law below indicated.
