Mobility of Young People in Europe (Questionnaire)

Young? Fond of traveling abroad to boost your education? What exactly do you expect to gain when studying abroad? Or when doing an internship abroad? Or when just doing a trip in some other country? Which advantages and disadvantages does a young person have when being mobile?

The Young European Federalists (JEF) want to study these questions and need your support. Their online questionnaire contains questions about mobility during education & training and requires approximately 10 minutes for filling in:

English Version/ German Version / French Version

Evaluation is anonymous and the results will be published after the 1st of August 2009 on the JEF website. JEF will use the results to make suggestions to politicians in order to achieve equal opportunities, to provide support and information for young people who want to travel abroad.

EU Profiler

Discover your position in the political landscape for the 2009 European Parliament Elections with the EU Profiler. Works for any EU country. All you need to do is to answer 30 general questions, and then you can compare how close your answer is to the official doctrine of the parties in the country you choose.

One thing that I still need to find out is the position of the different German parties on software patents. Does any of the readers have a clue?

Junior Research Groups at Saarland University

Saarland University is seeking to establish several junior research groups within the recently established Cluster of Excellence “Multimodal Computing and Interaction.” Here is the official announcement.

Warsaw

Holidays

They say a picture is worth 1.000 words, so here is a 2.000.000-words-worth collection of pictures I took in the nicest holidays I had for a very long time.

Disclaimer. The quality Picasa displays online is absolutely horrible, for which I apologize. I usually scale down the pictures myself at reasonable quality, but this seems to no longer help — Picasa now scales them one more time and compresses them so much it destroys them. One thing that might work is downloading the albums you want to see as a whole using the Picasa client for Windows.

Corruption in Romania

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhxYr6h0cOw

(thanks to Iulian for the link)

Cambridge

Amsterdam

CSF 2007

(Some pictures from Venice)

Paris

Photos by Sergiu Dumitriu

Luxembourg

Mirabellenfest in Metz

Strasbourg and the European Parliament

Yesterday I was on a trip to Strasbourg organized by Stiftung Demokratie Saarland and the IMPRS. We visited the European Parliament and the Cathedral, had lunch in the 600 years old restaurant named “Au Pont St-Martin” and wondered through the city with a really nice guide. I made a ton of pictures and uploaded the best on Flickr. Enjoy

FOSDEM 2006

Returned from FOSDEM 2006 last night. It was a great event … hope to have time to tell the story later.

Here are all the pictures I took while in Brussels (sorry for the quite poor quality — i used my cellphone to take them)

Owning ideas

The Guardian has an insightful article on software patents and so-called “intellectual property”.