It is with a mix of excitement and sadness that we are sending one of INESAD’s founders, Dr. Luis Carlos Jemio, off to Ethiopia. For the next few years, he will be based in Addis Ababa, helping out at Ethiopia’s version of UDAPE. He will be sorely missed in Bolivia, …

This year, the carnaval festivities at INESAD started with Compadres on the 16th of February. The women at INESAD had organized a Flower Power event in honor of the men at INESAD. Here is the whole group, which is severely reduced compared to last year, both due to the end …

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. …

INESAD’s upcoming book “El ABC del desarrollo en Bolivia” is in full production at Weinberg, so INESAD’s Beer & Book Club made a little excursion to visit the printing company and check on the progress.

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):

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 …

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.

The 12th annual Dream Team Dart Tournament was held on the 20th of May 2016 at INESAD. Here is a group photo of the participants who stuck around until the end.

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 …

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 …