Breath of Technology 2022

After two long years of hard work, the study trip has suddenly come to an end. It feels like we have been on this trip for ages, yet time passed so quickly. Remembering how early our alarm went off to be on time for the bus to go to Schiphol feels like a year ago, or...

Today is the last full day in Bergen. The morning started with suitcases being packed and a nice breakfast from the hostel. After that it is time to checkout and gather for departure to our new hotel. As the initial flight was cancelled and the new flight is a day...

The last company day! Today we visited our final 2 companies of the study trip. It all started early in the morning with our pre-briefing at 08:35. As can be seen on the photo above there were still a couple of sleepyheads during the briefing. But during our 1 hour...

Today was the second free day in Bergen. Since it is also Kim’s birthday, we celebrated her with a small gift and some singing! After having a nice and calm breakfast at the hostel, small groups went out to explore Bergen more. For example, one group climbed up the...

Today marked our first day waking up in the cool fresh mountain air of Bergen. Today was the big day we would conquer Mount Ulriken, so the day started with a fulfilling breakfast in the hostel. Our new hostel in Bergen is the first place where breakfast is provided,...

Travel day again! Today we will travel to Bergen by train. It is supposed to be one of the most beautiful train rides, so everyone is very excited. First, we had a nice breakfast at our hostel chamber. During our breakfast, some great stories were revealed to the...

Probably our most busy day, we went to two companies and the Oslo Opera house. Our first visit was to Sensio, a company focusing on making technology for elderly care. We received a presentation focused on the company's business side, which was a first for us....

Today was a nearly free day, allowing for some last free exploring of Oslo. While some groups went out,exploring on their own, others worked hard on the presentation for tomorrow's companies. Some also took the liberty to sleep in after being roughly awoken by a fire...

Today, Day 12, there were no company visits, only rest and fun. In the morning everyone could do whatever they wanted. This presented a sleep-in opportunity. In the afternoon, an island-hopping activity was planned. The entire group gathered at the pier where the boat...

Exciting day in the office! We are going to visit two very cool companies today: Kahoot! and Differ. In the morning we go by the big quiz company Kahoot. We had to gather at 09:10 to arrive at Kahoot! around 09:30. Since our appointment with them was at 10:00 we could...

Another one of the company "visits" during this study trip was the Tekniskmuseum, the technology museum in Oslo. Some of installations are completely based around interaction like the "science field" where children can experience science in a fun way, and some are...

Today we had our first company day in Oslo. At 9:00 we gathered outside of our hostel for our daily briefing, held by our day commissioners Renske and Tristan. On this day we were joined by Thea instead of our usual Alma and Kasia combo. She will be accompanying us...

After settling in Oslo, everyone got the chance to explore Oslo! Since everybody now has their own small kitchen, people enjoyed their breakfasts together. One group made Dutch 'wentelteefjes' (french toast)! After breakfast, there were a few warriors among us who...

Today was quite a tough day for everyone: we were going to travel to Oslo! Our first train left from Stockholm Central Station at 06:30 in the morning so everyone had to get up really early. After getting breakfast at the station, we got on the train for the first leg...

And that concludes day 7 and the first week of our trip spent in Stockholm! We had a relaxed morning with free time planned. Where some of us spent the morning catching up on sleep or going on a run, others went on a cultural outing to the ABBA museum. The afternoon...

Today we started off our day by signing the Swedish and Norwegian flags which we brought with us on this trip to take fun group pictures with. When signing the flags we found out that one of the pens was bleeding a lot which resulted in very creative writings on the...

The fifth day is almost coming to an end and therefore it is time to write another blog post! After getting out of bed and eating breakfast, the day officially started at 9.15 with a briefing from our two commissioners of today; Sebastiaan and Ben. After a rather long...

One of the company "visits" during this study trip was of course IKEA. How could we visit Sweden and not go to the furniture giant that is IKEA? Unfortunately, it was not possible to get a presentation of some sore arranged in time, but we though of a fun alternative:...

The fourth day – it is a wrap! Good weather put everyone in a good mood. Alarm clocks rang early and people went on the hunt for food to fuel themselves for a new day. This day was a bit less busy than the day before, but no less fun! The day started with singing and...

After a long travel day already exploring the city of Stockholm and a Sunday filled with tourism around Stockholm, today was the first day actually visiting companies, which is the main focus of this study trip. The day started with a briefing at 08:25 in front of the...

The second day is almost coming to an end, so time for the daily blogpost! The day started off after a very nice (and long) night of sleep to recharge from yesterday. Everyone gathered in the diner downstairs of the hostel to enjoy a nice breakfast. At the same time,...

Welcome to our first blog post while being on the study trip. We are so happy to announce that we finally arrived in Stockholm! After 2 years of planning, rescheduling, and working very hard, the moment is finally here. All our hard work and preparations were not done...

It has been about a year since we started preparations for the study trip and we have accomplished so much already! Since then the board has found the travelling agency that will guide us through the organisation of the trip. Fivesenses has helped us with setting...

On Friday the 11th of September we had a great teambuilding activity with a nice BBQ. Everyone got a chance to meet their fellow travellers and have a chat with people they didn't know that well yet. Our pictures were also taken which resulted in some professional...