{"id":20,"date":"2017-11-14T14:03:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T12:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/exploring-european-business\/?p=20"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T09:25:20","slug":"welcome-to-our-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/exploring-european-business\/welcome-to-our-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of this blog is to share\u00a0our experiences from our Brussels excursion in Autumn 2017.<\/p>\n<p>We visited\u00a0Brussels with HAMK International Business student group as part of the European Markets Project. Our objective for the excursion was to explore EU and European Business organizations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I enjoyed being in the heart of Europe!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We had interesting visits (and great presentations) in the following places: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finland.eu\/public\/default.aspx?culture=en-EN&amp;contentlan=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Permanent Representation of Finland<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eesc.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The European Economic and Social Committee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Parliament<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/visiting\/en\/brussels\/parlamentarium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parlamentarium,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/historia-europa.ep.eu\/en\/interactions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House of European History<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ek.fi\/en\/ek-and-the-european-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Confederation of Finnish Industries <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pirkanmaa.fi\/council-of-tampere-region\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council of Tampere Region<\/a>. One team prepared us entertaining\u00a0free-time activity for several evenings. The students teams will share their experiences and feeling from these visits and activities in their blog posts. Keep checking us out!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/exploring-european-business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/11\/Parliament_A-and-A-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/exploring-european-business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/11\/Parliament_A-and-A-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.hamk.fi\/exploring-european-business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/11\/Parliament_A-and-A-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecturers Annaleena Kolehmainen and Annikka Lepola in the House of Parliament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of this blog is to share\u00a0our experiences from our Brussels excursion in Autumn 2017. 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