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Hi, I am Annica, hope you enjoy my posts!

4 things interns and their supervisors should do

For many years, I have had the opportunity to supervise several ambitious young people during their internship in Brussels, in the field of European public affairs and communications. Showing them how to navigate the EU institutions, decipher Eurocrats and politicians jargon, and understand how to get your message across and through the EU bubble, has…

Gen-Z ‘YouTube’ and records vs. Gen-X ‘Google’ and writes

Over the holidays, I sat down with my niece and nephew, 14 and 16 years old, to better understand how they, as Gen-Z, use technology and communicate. When I became an aunt, l promised myself to always try to keep up with the technology they use, and they promised to warn me, if l ever…

What Angelina Jolie and I have in common

Angelina Jolie, Christina Applegate, Sharon Osbourn and I have in common that we all have the BRCA high-risk cancer gene. The American comedy-drama television series The Bold Type features Jane Sloan, a young woman in her 20s that is finding out about and coming to terms with her genetic heritage, undergoing a mastectomy and processing…

Things can be both Bad and Better

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have often thought: what would Hans Rosling have said about advice of epidemiologists, decisions of global leaders, cases counting and data readings by experts, as well as the media coverage of it all?  We will never know, as Hans Rosling unfortunately passed away in 2017. But his legacy is particularly…

Stretch Your Mind and Become Tech Fit

Creativity and tech savviness is not something you are born with, not even web-natives. Anyone can develop their creative muscle. A while ago I read Philip Weiss’s book HyperThinker, Philip reminds about how a daily routine of brain games and problem solving, reading books, watching educational videos or listening to podcasts can stretch your mind.…

How to make a relationship last

It is my longest relationship. I have had others, some for several years, a few months or just a weekend. I never promised I would stay, but I did, and it has been almost ten years now.

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