While cafes and restaurants are required to ask for a corona pass starting next week, De Refter remains quite accessible. The university says this is possible because de Refter is mainly focused on students and staff. Radboud Reflects will ask for a valid QR code to attend their lectures.

A new set of covid measures is going to be implemented on the 25^th of September. The biggest change for higher education is that the full capacity of lecture halls can be used again. The rule that a maximum amount of 75 people can be in one room no longer applies. Additionally, it is no longer required to wear a mask inside university buildings.

No restrictions
The corona admission ticket, also called the corona pass, is entering daily life. Restaurants, cafes, theatres, and cinemas will be reopened, on the condition that they check corona passes. These are available in the form of a QR code, once the recipient has been fully vaccinated, tested for or recovered from covid.

The facilities at the university remain quite accessible, contrary to regular cafes and restaurants. According to the university, this is possible because de Refter is a facility for students and staff. That’s why, starting next week, guests can sit next to each other without restrictions.

The university restaurant definitely is accessible for people outside the university. For example, neighbourhood residents regularly came and ate at de Refter during pre-covid times. ‘It’s true that we can’t rule out the possibility that some people from the neighbourhood will come and eat at de Refter’, says university spokesperson Martijn Gerritsen. ‘At the same time, we don’t get many signals that this happens often.’ If necessary, additional measures can be taken. Gerritsen: ‘We can start checking student and staff ID cards, for example.’

Radboud Reflects
Radboud Reflects will start asking for corona passes. The organizer of debates and lectures targets a larger audience than only students and staff. That’s why a pass is necessary, even when a lecture is held on campus.

‘We follow the government rules in these cases’, says communication officer Marie-José Verbeek. ‘Our opinion doesn’t really matter. It is great to be able to welcome people in the halls again.’

Radboud Reflects will also make livestreams available for the events that already have been planned. This won’t be the case for newly announced lectures and debates. ‘Then we only publish a video recording afterwards. That’s also what we did before.’