competitive, we have to be inventive and learn how to develop new concepts and fresh thinking. And when setting our goals and objectives, we have to be strategic and think ahead – yet in following through [...] develop and apply strategies for staying on top of things. Using information and communication technology effectively can make virtually any project so much smoother, quicker and less expensive and what’s [...] that shape technology and business processes and the human element remains the most important element. This is interesting because everything is about people and how we interact. And it is crucial that we

important to organise and improve the services on offer in this country and try to inspire and develop ideas for more services. On the one hand we must develop new services and activities and, on the other hand [...] makes us quite unique and special. Many consider islands in the ocean to be exotic and romantic by default. And being special means a lot these days where we see tourists looking more and more for special [...] was that people started opening their homes to foreign travellers and making a business out of it. This led to a great increase in bed capacity in hotels and B&Bs, and tourist numbers started rocketing. The

earth, sculpted by ice and wind and wave, at once a refuge and a stepping-stone for intrepid explorers, often ignored and more often plundered, it has endured, even flourished, and the people of the Faroes [...] too cold and not too hot, which suited me just fine after the hustle and bustle and continuous meltdown of tropical Hawaii. Shortly after our arrival, I set up my international law practice and business [...] with its sodden economy. But I was indeed and the more I went about the country, and the more cups of coffee and sweet cakes I savored, the more I began to notice and appreciate that remarkable indomitable

their values, and more important, to under­stand my own Faroese culture; who I was. Today, I love Arkansas, and I wouldn’t want to go to school anywhere else. The school is excellent and the knowledge [...] me if I didn’t think it was to far away to go. I had told her with great confidence that it was only a plane ticket away. That is not true. America is much further away than that. To come here was like going [...] Nothing was as I had envisioned, no high buildings, no blazing and beautiful metropolitan, just a highway, a couple of fast-food restaurants, and miles upon miles of fields: I had landed in Hicks­ville, I

our young and educated people back, and it is evolving. You might say that the change from remote to finally having opportunities like the rest of the world has demanded and created a fast and willing capacity [...] go fishing and having sheeps in the mountains. All though most youngsters live a life similar to other young people in the western world, it still comes with a touch and respect of nature, and when you feel [...] surveillance and control of the North Atlantic and had a great value for NATO. The Faroes has herself never been to war. From remote to central The Faroes have always paid the price of being “The Far Away Islands”

exploring for oil and developing an oil industry and at the same time to look for other ways of producing energy. We need the oil, and incomes from oil can help us invest in alternative and renewable energy [...] The main theme tonight is of course the Faroe Islands, and indeed the whole area between the Faroes and Shetland, as an area for oil and gas exploration. As a Minister for Research, I find it tremendously [...] in the haystack. And – mind you – here we are talking about an immensely huge haystack! Not only that – most of the haystack we can’t even see, and must just guess about its size and composition. Of course

beaches and big meals we grew restless, and have since spent the last two weeks of travel staying with anyone who will take us in. Staying with locals is a great opportunity to learn about a culture and find [...] traditional homes and concrete apartment buildings: a 20-foot replica Statue of Liberty boldly rising above the city atop Hotel Victory. Our reception in Kosovo as Americans was pleasant and unexpected [...] ed.) taught my husband and I on our month-long honeymoon trip en route to the Faroe Islands where we will start life together in Klaksvik. After a week of marriage, we left my home in rural America, a place

subsisting, and thus they shape their lives in accordance with who they are into microcosms, which they can truly cherish. So, while the former president (and perhaps future ‘first man’) and I inhabit each [...] seemed too big to grasp fully, mysterious in some ways, and maybe even a little dangerous. The usual reaction I get when talking to people at home about studying in the U.S. is something like this: “I don’t [...] don’t think I could live there, it’s just too far away, and isn’t the crime rate pretty high over there? Oh, but it’s great that you’re doing it! Living the American Dream!” In the reality of what is the

story. And the story that got him here was the one about the Faroese professor, Bogi Hansen, who was awarded the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize in 2006 for his research into climate and oceanography [...] blubber and skerpikjoet. Elin Heinesen, managing director of SamVit, the Faroese trade council and tourist board, says that time is ripe for marketing the Faroe Islands. - Iceland has gone forward and has [...] country and create opportunities to tell the good stories, Elin Heinesen explains. And the fact that an American president chooses to visit our islands can also boost our self confidence, and give us the

a political ambition and it aims for a social system which both: • promotes equality, well-being and reliance; and which • at the same times generates innovation, cooperation and growth. From a liberalistic [...] education, research and innovation, • with social capital, trust and abilities to combine forces between citizens, organisations, institutions, corporations and political systems – and • with the highest [...] are opportunities and options for rehabilitation, unimpeded access to buildings and means of communication, accommodation alternatives, educational, labour and income possibilities. And as far as possible