IAESTE Annual Review 2020/21

Back in the Summer of the year 1987, we were a group of students from
the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) who organised the welcome for
engineering students coming to Stockholm in Sweden. The students came
for jobs and internships which were provided and shared through IAESTE.
We ensured that there were lots of activities in order to meet both local
and foreign IAESTE students, find new friends and experience the best of
Stockholm. We organised weekend trips for sailing in the archipelago,
canoeing on some smaller lakes and weekends focusing on tourism in
Stockholm. To the Stockholm weekends, we also invited the IAESTE students
based in Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen. We organised weekly evenings
to drink beer and several parties. One big party was the Swedish traditional
midSummer’s eve party in the Royal Institute of Technology’s summer lodge
located in the archipelago. For the party, we expected that about 80
persons would come and we were very surprised, but happy when 130
showed up. One student even brought his mother!
We in the committee continued to support IAESTE and some of us were in
the last years of the 1980:s able to travel and work abroad through IAESTE
or other organisations.
Main course – Cecilia, Katalin, Helena and Nina in the year 1994 Dessert – Tommie, Inger, Anders, Cecilia, Kjell and Nina in the year 2017
• Inger was two months in Vienna in Austria and worked at ÖMV, an
oil refinery site.
• Stefan was two months in Czechoslovakia and worked at the University
in Ostrava.
• Nina was two months at Clarkson University, New York state, US and
worked with research in colloidal chemistry.
• Cecilia was four months in Brazil and worked at the university in
Campinas (UniCamp) with environmental research. She also helped
out at the IAESTE exchange conference held in Sao Paulo 1990.
As a team, we had a lot of fun and in the early 1990:s when we all had
finished our studies, we decided to continue to meet on a regular basis. We
decided to cook gourmet dinners together and since then - for more than
30 years - we have met every two to three months to cook. Many menus
have been inspired by our visits abroad. The only rule is that it must be a
three-course dinner with dishes we have never cooked before.
...and yes, our cooking skills have improved several levels since we started!
Best wishes from
The IAESTE Committee of Stockholm 1987
Nina, Inger, Katalin, Helena, Stefan and Cecilia
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