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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 ... -
Empower to Shape Change: Learning and Identities in the Changing World of Work
As regular readers of this blog will know, Pontydysgu were members of a consortium in a project called EmployID, funded by the European Commission. The project focused on changing work ... -
Remembering Jenny Hughes - Part One: Personal memories on our cooperation
Last Sunday we got from Graham Attwell the sad news: Jenny Hughes has passed away. As we know it, Graham is a long-time friend of Jenny over decades. In his ... -
Back to Tampere - Back to the Work Research Centre (WRC)
In my previous post I reported on my participation in the international conferences organised by Stockholm University in the beginning of May 2017 and 2018. In the middle of May ... -
Bye bye "Pontydysgu Studio" - good luck Pontydysgu Ltd & Pontydysgu SL!
Pontydysgu headquarters in Pontypridd, Wales and 'Pontydysgu Studio' as its filial in Bremen - that is how we have experienced it quite a long time. The name "Pontydysgu Studio" was ... -
"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 ... -
"Mein Koffer in Berlin" - Part One: Refreshing memories of 1990s and walking around
"Ich habe noch einen Koffer in Berlin" (I still have a piece of luggage in Berlin) - this is the way that old Berliners express their longing for getting back ... -
Taking further steps with the TACCLE4-CPD project - Part One: Setting the scene for project ...
In December 2017 I wrote a blog on the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded TACCLE4-CPD project that took place in our institute ITB at the University of Bremen. In that ... -
Chamber Music Festival Kuhmo 2017 and follow-up - Part Two: The fascination of the "Salakamari"
With my previous blog I started a series of posts looking back at the highlights of the year 2017 - and this time with a focus on the cultural highlights ... -
Ten years blogging - five years active blogging
Today (11.11.2017) I noticed by chance that I had started my career as a Pontydysgu blogger exactly ten years ago. The start was not great and there were periods of ...