BAI05/06 study excursion to Frankfurt/Germany

Frankfurt - financial centre of continental Europe

Students from the part time study programme will be traveling to Frankfurt Germany 21.-25 May 2008.

Read the agenda of the trip here

Globaalimpia ja lokaalimpia harjoittelijoita

Valkeakosken Seudun Kehitys Oy:n toimisto sai keväällä niin globaalia kuin hieman lokaalimpaakin vahvistusta, kun kolme HAMK:n työharjoittelijaa saapui vahvistamaan Vasken toimintaa. Kevään ja kesän ajan Vaskessa työskentelevät kiinalainen Shiran Xu, virolainen Svetlana Iivonen ja suomalainen Maija Niemelä.

Lue lisää

Friday 25. April - International Student Gathering

A day in Ludwigshafen

Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen

Today we visited our partner university Fachhochschule Ludwigshafen. Our host during the visit was Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Ihle-Schmidt. She gave a presentation about current political, social and economical issues in Germany. In the same time, Sven Rassl gave a lecturer for the German students about Finland, and in the same time marketing the double degree possibilities between the respective schools.

Worthwhile to mention that a Finnish, a European Union and a German flag were flew in front of the university. This was very kind and made us feel warmly welcome.

An evening with friends

After the university we were invited to visit the home of the Rassl family. Were were served traditional German food and beverages. It was an enjoyable evening and we stayed almost until midnight.

Sunday Sunday

We changed address! Now we are here
Otherwise, we will take it easy today. We are all a bit tired.

Long night of the museums in Mannheim

After our visited to the town museum we took the underground, crossed the Rhein river and went to Mannheim. So our next destination was the castle in Mannheim.

The "Mannheimer Schloss" was renovated in 2007 for the 440 years anniversary of Mannheim. During the museum night, there were several attractions that could be visited.

We decided to start the visit with an exhibition in the south wing of the castle. This exhibition covered a creative clash of diverse art categories, progressive music, graffiti art and fashion design. In the first floor stood a 15 m a long table which was used as a catwalk for a fashion show.

On the second floor some guy built a little with about 10.000 kitchen sponges. We were not sure why he actually did this and what is was supposed to tell us, but it was certainly interesting to watch. Indeed the atmosphere in the building was filled with artistic spirit. Certainly an experience...

After a little break, during which we went to the city centre for a snack, we continued our tour in the castle. We thought we would visit the newly renovated baroque entrance hall, but since there was such a long queue, we continued in some other part of the castle.

The assembly hall was our next destination. In this part of the castle, a photographer showed portraits of famous DJs. The specialty of the photos were, that the showed the portraits focused on the most important body parts of a DJ: eyes, ears and hand.

Once we left the building we saw that the queue for the baroque entrance hall had disappeared. So we finally went there. In fact, after this tour it was almost two o'clock in the morning and the long night of the museum was about to close. Some of us went back to Heidelberg by train and some by car. We arrived at the hostel around half past two.

Gallery - Long night of the museum

Long night of the museum