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Most of the authors involved in the book "El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia"

Book launch and 10 year anniversary cocktail party, December 2016

To celebrate INESAD’s 10 year anniversary, we held a cocktail party at Circulo de la Unión on the 1st of December, and presented our new book “El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia” to the public. The book is a huge collaborative effort involving more than 30 authors and 20 fotographers. …

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Lykke, Kamila, Camilo, Alejandro and Marcelo at the beginning of the hike to Palca.

Annual Palca Hike, October 2016

Possibly due to unfortunate timing (the day after Oktoberfest at Colegio Aleman) or due to the threat of rain, only a small group of brave people showed up for this year’s Palca Hike. Here is the group at the start of the hike (excluding Raphaela, who took the picture):

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Johnny, Gabriela, Jose and Alejandro after completing the Office Escape Room.

Office Escape Room for Lykke’s Birthday, October 2016

Lykke used her Birthday as an excuse to use her colleagues to test the virtually unknown Escape Room concept in Bolivia. Using only materials at hand, and without putting even one nail in the walls, she managed to create a pretty neat temporary escape room called “Office Escape.” It was first …

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Beer tasting party at INESAD, June 2016

INESAD’s Beer & Book Club needs more practice, June 2016

INESAD’s Beer and Book Club organized a beer tasting event on the 17th of June 2016. The challenge was to correctly identify as many as possible of 15 different beers from Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Sushi making class in Susana's new apartment.

Sushi making, March 2016

After a long break, INESAD’s Beer & Book Club met again. However, we got completely side-tracked by three other activities, namely the inaugeration of Susana’s new apartment, the celebration of Montserrat succesfully defending her thesis and obtaining her bachelor degree in Economics in the morning, and Stefano and Caro teaching …

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Challa at INESAD, February 2016.

Carnaval at INESAD, February 2016

Carnaval in Bolivia takes several weeks and seriously affects the work-life balance. The minimum official activities include Dia de Compadres, Dia de Comadres and Challa. Some of the Junior Researchers and Ambassador Interns also included Carnaval in Oruro, while some of the seniors escaped to Panama and Buenos Aires part …

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