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Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 3)

Photo Credit: http://www.sausedo.net by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides Are we really heading towards a major shortage of skilled labour? Is it the demographic change as we are often told? While more and more people retire, there are … Continue reading

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Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 2)

Photo Credit: http://www.august-faller.de by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides In Part 1 of this blog series we ended by asking the question whether the debate about a shortage of skilled labour in Germany had any substance. Is the phenomenon … Continue reading

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Shortage of Skilled Labour in Germany: Does it really exist? (Part 1)

Photo Credit: courtesy of Siemens by Paul Köper, Tobias Sieblitz and Ares Kalandides The term skilled labour or rather the shortage of such seems to be omnipresent these days. While, for example, the inter-trade organization Bitkom reports that there is … Continue reading

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La visión de Bogotá internacional

Short video clip by Invest in Bogotá with information on its international positioning strategy. INPOLIS was responsible for designing the latter.

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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – Resources and Challenges (Part 2)

By Ares Kalandides This is the second part of the final report of the small research conducted by INPOLIS in association with the UK AHRC CREATe Project. Central question was the role of intellectual property in the work of fashion designers in Berlin. Based on … Continue reading

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Fashion Businesses in Berlin – Resources and Challenges (Part 1)

by Ares Kalandides When the next Berlin Fashion Week opens its doors on 8th July, fashion aficionados from all over the world will flood the city, filling up show rooms and catwalks. Through the efforts of the Berlin administration and a very lively … Continue reading

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The (In)formal City: Searching for (In)formality

At GIfA, 77 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg from 18 November 2013 The (In)formal City constitutes an example of an immersive and process-driven project of exchange, premised on international comparison and collaboration between two interdisciplinary teams of participants from Berlin and Johannesburg respectively. The primary focus … Continue reading

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THE [IN]FORMAL CITY _ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

PROJECT SUMMARY You can download the full call here. This call for participation is addressed to students and young professionals (incl. PhD candidates) who want to work on the subject in a team composed of 10 participants from Germany and … Continue reading

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3RD INTERNATIONAL PLACE BRANDING CONFERENCE and 2ND INTERNATIONAL PLACE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE

Manchester Metropolitan University 13th-16th February 2013 The Business of Place: Critical, practical and pragmatic perspectives Conference Chairs: Professor Cathy Parker and Dr. Ares Kalandides Place branding, place management, place marketing, strategic spatial development, public-private place partnerships, all synonyms describing one … Continue reading

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From Coal-Mining to Water-Skiing: The Niederlausitz in Brandenburg

by Valentin Schipfer There is a special aesthetic quality to old coal mines that can perhaps be best described as a “moon landscape”. Yet coal-mining areas are rarely considered the most attractive places in the world. Though many live and … Continue reading

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