fluidminds

Hub World in Stockholm

Yesterday and today fluidminds is working with people from Hub World in UK to further shape The Hub Stockholm venture.

We are discussing vision, values, culture, hosting, design, work spaces, meeting spaces, expansion and a lot of other issues. And creating plans for developing our present Stockholm space in accordance with the Hub World concept. 

Maria and Oliver who are visiting us are great people and we are learning a lot. We are so happy that we have found Hub World to join forces with - and bring our Stockholm meeting space into an international context. But also to create a clearer mission - to support the entrepreneurs doing good in (and for) the world.

If you want to learn more about Hub Stockholm click here. If you are looking for a new space to work in make sure you contact us to learn more about our flexible, time-based pricing plan.

//jan

Are you a potential Kaospilot?

Or do you know one...?

Rush, rush! Deadline for application to Team 2 in Stockholm is Oct 15. Check this video [in Swedish] and/or visit the Kaospilot Stockholm web for more information.

//jan

Announcing new partnership

fluidminds has reached an agreement with The Hub Ltd in London that includes fluidminds' meeting space in Stockholm in The Hub network. The meeting space R17 in Stockholm will be renamed The Hub Stockholm.

The Hub is a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. The Hub is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at 'new frontiers' to tackle the world's most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges.

There is no absence of good ideas in the world. The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. So it felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment.

The Hub has been working across four continents, and 12 cities to create places for people who change things. This is the ambition. The Hub sets out to create places that borrow from the best of a member's club, an innovation agency, a serviced office and a think-tank to create a very different kind of innovation environment. Places with all the tools and trimmings needed to grow and develop new ventures. Places to access experience, knowledge, finance and markets. And above all, places for experience and encounter, full of diverse people doing amazing things.

This is of course a very inspiring challenge for us at fluidminds to participate in!
For more information contact Jan or Kent. Contact details in the left menu.

//jan

The Kaospilots vs. Swedish ministers

Swedish ministers of Education, Enterprise and Research - Jan Björklund, Maud Olofsson and Lars Leijonborg presented a strategy for entrepreneurship in the Swedish education system last week. The piece kind of pissed off the students at Kaospilot Stockholm so they rallied for a reply that was published Saturday.

Essentially they challenged the ministers to actively support the Kaospilots as a role model for exactly the goals the ministers say they want to achieve. Still, the Kaospilots after two (!) years of struggle with the central education bureaucracy has not been approved for the goverment student loan program. The paradox becomes total when a Swedish student can enroll in the Kaospilots in Denmark and recieve Swedish student loans - but not get them for the same education in his/her own home country.

You can find the ministers' article here [in Swedish]

And the students' response here [also in Swedish]

fluidminds founded Kaospilot Stockholm with Kaospilot International in 2006. The Kaospilots was ranked as one of the 60 best educations in the World by Business Week in 2007. In april 2008 nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus visited and held a lecture at Kaospilot Stockholm.

Why we cancelled yesterday's seminar

We understand that quite a few were a little surprised by us cancelling yesterday's seminar with professor Alf Rehn and ourselves. We of course apologize deeply for any inconvenience this has created. And from a social norms point of view it is highly irregular to cancel such an event only a few days before.

Still, we believe we made the right choice. We were not 100% "there" with our content and with our conceptualization of fluidminds the coming 10 years. Not that we were planning to have everything neatly packaged, that is highly unrealistic. But even in the interactive setting that the seminar was planned to be, we needed more substance to be comfortable in an engaging creative dialogue with the seminar attendants.

That is more or less it. A gut feeling decision more than a rational one. We continue modelling the "new" fluidminds and will post our progress here.

Thanks once again for your understanding.

Jan and Kent

Thanks for celebrating with us!

Just got home from our 10-year anniversary party. Good vibe in the building. Good feeling inside. Lots of happy reunions. Wicked band.

Thanks for sharing the moment with us. Now on to 10 new exciting years!

A re-occuring question we got during the evening was why we had cancelled the seminar that was to be held in the afternoon. We obviously owe an answer. But after some sleep ;-)

//jan

new fluidminds web

We've decided to alter our web presence and move to Typepad's blog tool. The next couple of weeks we'll be fooling around filling this space up with content and also adding graphic elements as we go. We're also going to direct our domain names towards this address.
//jan