Defining, Developing, Designing, & Discovering: How Station and Copenhill inspired our creative thinking

This newsletter was created by Michael Glazkov, student guest blogger, and edited by the CIEE Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation in Europe Team.

Goddag og velkommen (Hello and Welcome),

It has been such a busy and jam-packed week and we can't believe it's already Saturday! Here's a recap of what the business and design-related thing we did on Tuesday and Wednesday:

On Tuesday, we went to Station. “Which station?” you may ask. Well, this isn't a train station, but rather a startup co-working space that is called Station. It was here where we learned about startup culture in Denmark. It is also where we finalized our business idea for our class and played games that helped us with the design process.

On Wednesday, we went to Copenhill, a power plant that burns garbage and is also a ski slope. Our tour guide was (coincidentally) Victor Walbom, the CEO of the company that runs the skiing part of the facility and showed us around and talked about all the features. For example, did you know that it was originally planned that the chimney would produce smoke rings every time 250 kilos of carbon dioxide would be saved? For me personally, it was especially cool because it was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. I found out the facility was being built when I was 10 years old and I’ve always wanted to go ever since because of how cool the technology was. And on this trip, I finally was able to go. We could even see Malmo, Sweden in the distance as well as the Øresund Bridge and even the Lillgrund Wind Farm!

We can’t wait to see what’s in store in Berlin!