Annual Dutch meeting for the European Regional Development Fund is held at VU University medical center

This morning the annual meeting of Dutch regions regarding the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) was held at our University Medical center here in Amsterdam. The 'West' region of the Netherlands, i.e. the Randstad provinces organised this annual meeting, highlighting the projects realised through ERDF in this region's ERDF program called Kansen voor West (Chances for West). After a few words of welcome by the representative of the province Elvira Sweet, Ruud van Raak, the program manager for Kansen voor West, and myself on behalf of the Vu University medical center, prof. Guus van Dongen highlighted VUmc's Medical Imaging Center's ambitions and how 'kansen voor west' had enabled an important step by providing support for a PET-MRI center on our campus. After these introductions, the representatives of the different Dutch regions visited different parts of the medical Imaging facilities on campus.