When Camilla walks into a room full of potential investors they tend to be middle aged men in suits. Blond, chatty and very young Camilla Hessellund Lastein could be their daughter. These men lean back in their chairs legs crossed and have pretty clear body language “show me what you’ve got because I don’t believe you’ve got anything”. Camilla is a successful entrepreneur who has established a startup called Lix providing affordable digital text books for students. Because of who […]

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Kristine shapes landscapes, not Aarhus’s architecture but the spaces around and between. As a landscape architect her prestigious projects have ranged from the city harbour’s embrace of the watery horizon around Dokk1 to the ancient forest and fields wrapping around the renown Mosegaard museum. Trained at the prestigious Aarhus school of Architecture Kristine stands on the shoulders of Denmark’s design giants. When asked why it is that Danes do design so well Kristine has 2 theories. The first is that […]

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As little girl Signe Normand spent happy days  with her grandfather. He was a biologist and trips with him meant peering at insects, taking water samples in the sea and looking at her finds under a microscope. The natural world fascinated her and she says “everything starts with fascination… then you are curious and want to know more… and from there you just keep going”. Now Signe is a successful biologist and 2015 recipient of International Rising Talent Fellowship, one of […]

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 Nina Bargisen is an architect of a virtual landscape. Though born, bred and based in Aarhus her focus is on the global connections of the world wide web. Spending the lonely hours staring into the computer screen is part of the experience of working and connecting with what she calls ” this amazing thing called the internet”. For Nina those who work to build the capacity and capability of the internet form a community and one that is based on […]

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Nadia speaks softly using her slim fingers to emphasise her words, these are the same hands she has used decisively in her 15 years as a successful elite boxer. She was one of only 10 Danish women in the sport and it hasn’t always been easy. When asked what it takes hold your own in this “man’s world” Nadia says “you need be a little rough around the edges”. Training is all consuming and she spent more time with her […]

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