Author and businessman Rolf Dobelli created a non-profit foundation in his native city to connect science, business and cultural figures. In which country?
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Zurich.minds ZURICH.MINDS is a non-profit foundation set up in 2008 by Rolf Dobelli. The goal of the ZURICH.MINDS Foundation is "to create a bridge between the science, business and cultural communities". Members of the board are: Rolf Dobelli (Chairman), Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, Pascal Forster, Michael Hengartner, Thomas Ladner, Hans Jürg Rufener and Alexander Wassmer.
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Rolf Dobelli Rolf Dobelli (born July 15, 1966 in Luzern, Switzerland) is a Swiss author and businessman.
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Copenhagen Copenhagen (Danish: "København" ] ; Latin: "Hafnia" ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. The city has a population of 763,908 (as of 2016 ), of whom 601,448 live in the Municipality of Copenhagen. The larger urban area has a population of 1,280,371 (as of 01 2016 ), while the Copenhagen metropolitan area has just over 2 million inhabitants. Copenhagen is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand; another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road.
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Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; Swedish: "Göteborg" , ] ) is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. It is situated by Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a population of approximately 580,000 in the urban area and about 1 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area.
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Rolf Sorg Rolf Sorg (born October 18 1963) is a German-born entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of PM-International AG.
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Maribor Maribor (] , German: "Marburg an der Drau") is the second-largest city in Slovenia with about 95,500 inhabitants in 2016. It is also the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria and the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor.
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Museum of Ethnography, Sweden The Museum of Ethnography (Swedish: "Etnografiska Museet" ), in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish science museum. It houses a collection of about 220,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples from around the world, including from China, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa. The museum is the headquarters of the Sven Hedin Foundation.
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Free Knowledge Institute The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2006 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the free software movement, the FKI fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society by promoting freedom of use, modification, copying, and distribution of knowledge pertaining to education, technology, culture, and science.
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Leverkusen Leverkusen ( ; ] ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on the eastern bank of the Rhine. To the South, Leverkusen borders the city of Cologne and to the North is the state capital Düsseldorf.
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Steinbeis Foundation The Steinbeis Foundation is an institute headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany dedicated to the transfer of academic findings and knowledge into the field of business. Established in its current form in 1971, the foundation encompasses the Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin, hundreds of "Steinbeis Transfer Centres" and "Transfer Institutes" which operate as stand-alone profit centres. Many are based at German universities of dual education and applied sciences under the directorship of professors who also use the Steinbeis network to attract funding from industry into academic research and study.
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European Science Foundation The European Science Foundation (ESF) is an association of 8 member organizations devoted to scientific research in 7 European countries. ESF is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit organisation that promotes the highest quality science in Europe. It was established in 1974 and its offices are located in Strasbourg, France (headquarters).
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Fraiburgo Fraiburgo (nicknamed Frai ) is a Brazilian municipality located in the countryside of the Santa Catarina state. The city is strongly influenced by European immigrants, especially Germans and Italians. However, other nationalities also contributed to the formation of the city's character in terms of e.g.: architecture, gastronomy, religion and economy, amongst other factors. Its multiculturality is a remarkable characteristic not exclusively attributed to Fraiburgo but many other Southern Brazilian municipalities.
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Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation The Ema Gordon Klabin Cultural Foundation (in Portuguese Fundação Cultural Ema Gordon Klabin) is an art museum located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Officially established in 1978, it is a not-for-profit private institution, legally declared as an organization of federal public interest. It was created by the Brazilian collector and philanthropist Ema Gordon Klabin (1907–1994), with the purpose of preserving and displaying her art collection, as well as promoting cultural, artistic and scientific activities. The foundation is headquartered in Ema's former house in Jardins district, specially designed by architect Alfredo Ernesto Becker in the 1950s to hold her collection. The house is surrounded by a 4,000 square meters garden projected by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.
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Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (Swedish: "Stiftelsen för strategisk forskning", SSF) is a Swedish independent research-funding foundation. Its objective is to "support research in natural science, engineering and medicine that strengthens Sweden’s competitiveness". It is located in the World Trade Center in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Kavli Foundation (United States) The Kavli Foundation, based in Oxnard, California, is a foundation that supports the advancement of science and the increase of public understanding and support for scientists and their work.
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Margaret Wertheim Margaret Wertheim (born 20 August 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of books on the cultural history of physics.
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Tijuana Tijuana ( ; ] ) is the largest city in Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area. As an industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics. As the city has become a leading center in the country, so has the surrounding metropolitan area, a major industrial and paramount metropolis in northwestern Mexico. Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico, Tijuana maintains global city status. s of 2015 , the city of Tijuana had a population of 1,696,923.
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Rolf Stumpf Rolf Stumpf is a South African statistician and former Vice Chancellor and Rector of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and serves on the Council of the University of South Africa.
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List of people from Brno People known for their achievements in different fields have come from the city of Brno, Czech Republic or lived there. They include scientist Gregor Mendel, who made epochal pea plant experiments, composer Leoš Janáček, and writer Milan Kundera. Numerous politicians and athletes were also born or lived in the city.
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Nordic Innovation Nordic Innovation is an institution that works to promote cross-border trade and innovation between the Nordic countries. Among the institution's goas are removng barriers and building relations through Nordic cooperation. Nordic Innovation works under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and is located in Oslo. The institution is seen as a key player in implementing the Nordic trade, industry and innovation partnership programme.Nordic Innovation has an ambition to establish the Nordic countries as a world-leading region for innovation and sustainable growth. Nordic Innovation works with both private and public stakeholders, and has projects and partners in all the Nordic countries.
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Nairobi Nairobi ( ; ] ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name comes from the Maasai phrase "Enkare Nairobi", which translates to "cool water", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper has a population of 3,138,369, while the metropolitan area has a population of 6,547,547. The city is popularly referred to as the Green City in the Sun.
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Sister city Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties. The modern concept of town twinning, conceived after the Second World War in 1947, was intended to foster friendship and understanding between different cultures and between former foes as an act of peace and reconciliation, and to encourage trade and tourism. In recent times, town twinning has increasingly been used to form strategic international business links between member cities.