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Kalimera Thessaloniki, Moin Bremen - Greetings to the Finnish expatriates
My recent posts have dealt with my departure from Bremen (over one year ago) and with my memories of political changes in Germany. In addition to this it is appropriate ... -
Celebrating the University of Bremen - 50 years and more to come!
This year the University of Bremen is celebrating the 5oth anniversary of the start of the university activities. From German perspective this is not much - many of the older ... -
Celebrating Martin Luther King - Revisiting a German radio program of January 2017
Yesterday, on Monday 19.01.2021 our American friends celebrated Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. This reminded me of a blog that I wrote four years ago on the ... -
Thoughts on retirement and retreat - Part Two: Blogging vs. engagement with social media
In my latest post I started to share my thoughts on my transition to retirement and the consequences for blogging. I made the point that for me going on retirement ... -
Working for Europe - Celebrating Europe - Part Three: The Europa-Fete in Bremen
I started a series of blog posts by mentioning that we celebrated the Europe-Day on Thursday, the 9th of May, here in Bremen. Then, In my first post I explained ... -
Working for Europe - Celebrating Europe - Part Two: Joining the expatriates' communities
In my previous blog I started from the fact that we had just celebrated the Europe-Day on Thursday the 9th of May. That led me to think about the origins ... -
Five myths about education, debunked
I just stumbled on a blog post by Andreas Schleicher, Director of Directorate for Education and Skills at OECD. He says one of the reasons why we get stuck in ... -
Academic Archers: abstract for the 2019 conference
For years, Jenny Hughes and I have been promising ourselves to submit a paper for the Academic Archers Conference. And this year we have finally got our act together. You ... -
"Mein Koffer in Berlin" - Part Three: The highlight - the Paganini-Marathon & Extras
With my two previous posts I have been writing a series of blog entries on my recent visit to Berlin - the 'second home town' of the mid-1990s when I ... -
"Mein Koffer in Berlin" - Part Two: Refreshing memories and catching up with friends of ...
In my previous post I started a series of blog entries focusing on my recent visit to Berlin and on the chances to refresh my memories from the mid-1990s when ...
