LEO-NET Barcelona 2016

Hmmmm...Enemmän suomalaisia mukaan...Missä olivat lähes kaikki suomalaiset kv.harjoittelun kanssa puuhailevat? 

Niin, koska LEO-NET verkoston vuosittainen Barcelonan seminaari on hyvä tapa päästä keskustelemaan kv.harjoitteluun ja työllistymiseen liittyvistä asioista. Pääset päivittämään EU-juttuja ko.alaan liittyen ja asiantuntemustasi muutenkin aihepiiriin liittyen...

Siispä espanjalaisia tapaksia viinin tai oluen tai virvoitusjuomien kera...oli tapakset sitten Galiciasta, Baskimaasta tai Kataloniasta...

 

...ja päälle tiukkaa asiaa eli konsortioista... 

...tai työllistymiseen liittyvistä asioista - alueellisia tutkimuksia...

 

 

  

Niin ja tsekkaa vielä, millainen yrittäjä sinä olet?

 

 Sekä muista!

Nos vemos en un año en Barcelona!

PS. Lisää infoa trainet.wikispaces -sivustolla kun seminaarista tehdyt muistiinpanot ovat valmiit.

Pietarin tuliaisia: Opiskelijavaihtoa, harjoittelua sekä nostalgiaa

Venäläisten kanssa - aina jonkinmoista juhlaa tai ainakin menoa! 

Nyt - 10v. sitten - 20v. sitten... 

Suomalais-venäläinen yhteistyöseminaari oli ja meni...Tässä kirjoittamani artikkeli seminaarista, ympätty yhteistyössä CIMOn Venäjä-seminaarikollegojeni kanssa. Artikkelista löytyy myös linkit seminaarin esityksiin.  

"Vaihdosta Duuniin" on myös tullut ja mennyt. Työnantajien paneelissa oli muuten 5 vuotta sitten 

1. kertaa henkilö, joka oli osallistunut ensimmäiseen "Vaihdosta Duuniin" -tilaisuuteemme 10 vuotta sitten opiskelijana!

Entä muistaako joku vielä CIMOn ensimmäisen verkkolehden Campuksen?

CIMO Campus 1/1995 ja 2/1995 - alussa paperiversiona

Minä muista "da-da" ja hyödyntäisin Campuksen juttuja vieläkin, jos niitä olisi arkistoituna. Eipä löydy enää netistä...Hmmmm....Kaivoin silloin muinoin netistä esille Campuksen Venäjä-numeron 15 vuoden takaa (ja yhden ensimmäisistä Campus-numeroista myös). Tähän 10 vuotta sitten ilmestyneeseen Campus-lehteen muistan aikoinani itsekin yhden artikkelin kirjoittaneeni. 

Niin ja sieltä silloin mm. tällaisia juttuja löytyi:
Venäjä-kortti täytyy pelata!
Esteitä opiskelijaliikkuvuuden tiellä
Monikulttuurishokki eli parahduksia Moskovasta
Sankarimatkaajat Venäjän kulttuurin kimpussa
Venäläisharjoittelijat kiinnostavat suomalaisia työnantajia
Nuorisotyö Venäjällä - näkemyksiä suuresta palapelistä
Suomea sukukansoille
CIMO ja Venäjä
Kolumni: Venäjän nuoret kärsivät rasismista

Olisi kiinnostavaa ajankuvaa vai mitä mieltä olet?  Jotkut asiat Venäjällä eivät ole muuttuneet lainkaan, ja jotkut ovat. 

Löytyykö lukijoiden tai asikkaiden joukosta muuten opiskelusta Venäjällä kiinnostuneita?

Muista tämä eli käsikirjaksi CIMOn Maaopas !

Studios of every kind: Nostalgic Design - Nostalgic Cinema

Have you ever been in St.Petersburg? Well...there you can travel for example by train from Helsinki, as you may know. Just enter the beautiful railway station of the capital of Finland and enjoy the marvellous design of the famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.

Design you can find in St.Petersburg too. To begin with have a lunch in "Lavka i kafe Artemia Lebedeva". It is a famous Russian design studio and there you can pick up some very original souvenirs if you like. For example an ice tray "Eternity", design is based on the Snow Queen fairy-tale (Text is in Russian.)

The food is also good. Last time I was there I first took Rassolnik. It is  traditional Russian soup made from pickled cucumbers, pearl barley and pork. I also took varenikis with cherry jam (Delicious in Russian, so "Vkusnyi!") and drank Tarragon soda. Nostalgic drink from the Soviet times, they say.
First time for me to taste it.

If you are in the mood of cinema, visit the tour of the Lenfilm studio founded before the Russian revolution in the year 2014. But notice, if you do not speak Russian take with you somebody who can translate. Because at the moment the tour is offered only in Russian.

Up to a short tour you can buy in the studios from the Russian film Peculiarities of the National Hunt (In Russian "Особенности национальной охоты, Osobennosti natsionalnoy okhoty"). It is the first and most notable "Russian national comedy". A young Finn, Raivo (Ville Haapsalo, maybe the most famous Finnish person in Russia), is studying Russian manners and traditions and convincing his friend Женя [Eugene] to help him participate in a real hunt in order to better familiarize himself with its peculiarities. Instead of the expected hunt, Raivo (Райво) finds himself encountering rampant drinking and adventures.

Lately Ville Haapasalo has become known in the Finnish Television having been started broadcasting series of documentaries about Russia. He has been travelling in different parts of Russia. Super adventures! I hope people all over Europe could see these series of documentaries and that way get to know Russia better.

Russia all the way! Kippis - Cheers - Nazdaróvie!

PS. Durante del viaje leyé una novela pocial española sobre Petra Delgado de Alicia Giménez Bartelett, "Mensajeros de la Oscuridad". En este libro se pasan cosas en Barcelona y en Rusia. At the same time I had  with me also one Russian book, "detektivnyi roman" of Boris Akunin "Osobyje Porutšenia".

Just take a look of their detective stories!

Chill out in the North with Kalevala, the Finnish National Epic Poetry

Today is the Day of the Finnish National Epic Poetry "Kaleva". I'll point out, really heavy storytelling Check it out! Here for you Live Lemminkäinen , some storytelling and a images in a video. And here the Kalevala-jewellery, Kalevala-koru. They have character indeed...

By the way, I found in the web a Russian folk metal band called Kalevala. Listen to their tune Son-Reka. Super! I found also "Sampo en España", relatos de Kalevala for kids. Hmmm...Of course there are also other versions in Spanish. Read here about Kalevala in Spanish and about the Kalevala-versions you can find in Spanish. And here the same info in Russian. Or check here "Kalevala in the World": http://kalevalamaailmalla.kalevalaseura.fi/ (choose "Kielet", that is languages).

As in wiki, The Kalevala or The Kalewala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish folklore mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature. The Kalevala played an instrumental role in the development of the Finnish national identity, the intensification of Finland's language strife and the growing sense of nationality that ultimately led to Finland's independence from Russia in 1917.The first version of The Kalevala (called The Old Kalevala) was published in 1835.

Here for you some examples of Kalevala-books in different languages. You can find Kalevala also as comic book from Kristian Huitula. Or in the Stories of Tolkien, the Tolkien Gateway to Kalevala.

To finalize. Singing a Kalevala Runo in Finnish by Ensiferum (translation in English there). Do you know that in the tune above was used the national instirument of Finland which is called "Kantele". Here you can read more about kantele, which can be found nowadays also as an electric version. The other very interesting Finnish instrument is "Jouhikko". Listen to Pekko Käppi, the Finnish Maestro of Jouhikko!

Chill out in the North with Sámi, they have a Wonderful Culture

I hope it is okay for the Sámi people that I tell in this blog of mine a little bit about them, having been visited in the northern part of Finland during last 5 years various times.

And informing you already now, look to the end of this story of mine. Two info bits of very interesting kinds... 

In winter and in summer. Sámi have their national day soon, that is on the 6th of February.

In my opinion it is nice that we have here in Finland such a wonderful culture present and they are one and only indigenous people group in the European Union.

I have had a wonderful opportunity to visit 2 festivals of Sámi people up in the North, in Lapland. Ijahis Idja, the "Nightless Night" Indigenous Music Festival is held in August

and the Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival is held in January. About "Ijahis Idja" I have also written an article. You can read it here.

 

So the Sámi live in the Northern part of Finland, Norway and Sweden as well as in parts of North-Eastern Russia. All in all there are about 75 000-100 000 Sámi. Sami languages are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. the same language family where Finnish also belongs. Here you can hear a little bit how Sámi language sounds.

In Finland, the Sámi population is approximately 9 000 strong. There are 3 Sámi languages spoken in Finland: North Sámi(1), Skolt Sámi(3) and Inari Sámi(2). Of these languages, Inari Sami is spoken by about 600 speakers as well as Skolt Sámi too.  Inari Sámi is the only one that is used entirely within the borders of Finland, mainly in the municipality of Inari. Talking about Skolt Sámi, so far I have understood there are very few Skolt Sámi speakers left in Russia left.

About Popular Music of Sámi

Check below what kind of popular music they make! Some examples

Ailu Valle, Rap 
Amoc, Rap
Niillas Holmberg and Roope Mäenpää, Singer-Songwriter
Tiina Sanila, Rock
Somby, Rock
Wimme, Joik
Angelin Tytöt, Joik

To end this story of mine, here for you to listen one new, very good Sámi band from Norway, the Arvvas. Yes, do not miss to listen to it...you will fall in love as I did.

And everybody knows Mari Boine from Norway, I suppose so...Here a wonderful video from her.

So visit Lapland!

But did you know that...

PS. I just read that the forefathers of Sámi came to Finland at the end of ice age. From Spain and France along the cost of Norway. Little bit later they began to arrive in Finland from Ukraina and Southern Russia and through Baltic countries. Probably Sámi are descendants of these people. (Docent, antropologist Markku Niskanen, University of Oulu/Newspaper Karjalainen 6.2.2016)

PS2. Dear friends / buorit ustibat / hyvät ystävät!

I am extremely happy to tell you that my dream of publishing a bilingual book in Northern Sámi and English has finally become reality. You can already order The Way Back from Francis Boutle Publishers (link below). 

Of course I am happy for myself for this achievement, but what is more important is that this is a very rare possibility for English speakers to have a peek into modern Sámi literature. 

The poems in this book are fresh and they haven't appeared in my previous Sámi volumes. They are translated into English by me, Lisa Jokivirta (CA) and Clive Boutle (UK). 

You can order the book and read more about it here . Feel free to share the news with the link in social media. 

Finally, I want to thank everyone of you for supporting me and Sámi literature over the years! GIITU!
Niillas Holmberg

YLE: Rare Poems from Niillas Holmberg.

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Munnje lea stuorra illun muitalit ahte mu niehku almmustahttit guovttegielat diktagirjji davvisáme- ja eaŋgasgillii lea šaddan duohtan. Girjji namma lea The Way Back ja dan sáhttá dál jo diŋgot lágádusastan, Francis Boutle Publishers (liŋka vuollelis). 

Lean dieđusge ilus maiddái iežan dihtii, muhto ávvudan eandalit dán hárvenaš vejolašvuođa eaŋgasgiela hálliide guovllastit dálá sámegirjjálašvuođa máilbmái. Girjjis leat ođđa divttat eaige dat leat almmuhuvvon mu ovddit diktačoakkáldagain. Divttaid leat jorgalan eaŋgasgillii mu lassin Lisa Jokivirta (CA) ja Clive Boutle (UK). 

Dáid ođđasiid ja liŋkka oažžu áinnas muitalit viidásut sosiálamedias.

Háliidan maiddái giitit din buohkaid mu ja sámegirjjálašvuođa doarjumis dáid vássán jagiid áigge! 

Dearvvuodain Niillas Holmberg.  

Wonderful! Soon visiting Russia and Northern Spain...and so 5-6 Times until the autumn 2016

It seems so that during more or less the first half of the year 2016 I will be visiting St.Petersburg and Northern Spain various times.

Above all Business, but also Freetime.

I hope the Spanish, Russians and Finns follow my visits through this blog of mine. As well as others interested in these countries and regions are upmost welcome.

 

So there will be business adventures coming on...in St.Petersburg, Vigo/Galicia, Barcelona...As well as other adventures. I hope, some useful tips for you that way.

First in St.Petersburg

There will be ... the 10th Seminar on cooperation between Russian and Finnish Institutions of Higher Education: "Melting the Ice: Ten Years of Success".

And then there will be ... the 6th Come Together of the Finnish students, Finnish Russia Club, CIMO and the Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg:  "How to turn a student exchange into a job in Russia"?

Then in Barcelona the LEO-NET meeting.

Read here what we wrote about it last year.

 

After that some wonderful happenings in Galicia Vigo.

Business as usual for me...

Annual International Administrative and Teaching Staff Training Week at the Universidade de Vigo "Employment and Entrepeneurship developing Students Capacities under Eramus+"

...and up also holidays later during the year, same mood - same place...

I hope to meet with you in Russia or in the Northern Spain!

Streets of bloody good bars in Vigo, Bilbao and San Sebastian (Galicia and Basque country)

 

Well, if you travel to Galicia...

...in Vigo you have to visit Churruca . 

Most bars there are only open from late evening on, but couple of them also earlier like one of my favorite bars called La Casa de Arriba: 

More suggestions check my other story about Galician bars. 

And if you visit Basque Country (Euskadi)...

...in Bilbao (Bilbo) you should visit the Goienkalea -street. There you can find many kind of very basque bars...

 

  

...and also nice bars nearby, like for example the Bar Ormaetxe...

 

 

 And in Bilbao you can find also the very known concert venue called Kafé Antzokia , there are some nice bars in the same street too.

In San Sebastian (Donostia), the street to go is Kalea Juan de Bilbao

 

 So in Spain try something else for a change than Madrid or the southern part of Spain!

...as have done maybe Snufkin by Tove Jansson...