Coffee time!
We warmly welcome parents from the International School of Helsingborg, HIC members and everyone from the international community for coffee, cakes and chat in the cafe of Helsingborg’s famous concert hall (Konserthuset). Make new friends and learn more about this wonderful facility for young and old alike in the centre of town!
Time: 08:30 – 10:00
Address: Roskildegatan 1, Helsingborg (side entrance)
Nearest bus stop: Helsingborg Konserthuset
We’re looking forward to seeing you again in August! Until then we’ll be on summer break, but will check emails from time to time in case you need to get in touch.
Tuesday morning drop-in sessions will resume on 14th August.
Have a great summer!
Join us for a family BBQ at Gröningen! We’ll bring charcoal, plates, cutlery, napkins and sauces, you bring your own food and drink! We’ll set up at the BBQ (grillplats) nearest Bunker Bar and have the grill hot for you at 14:00. There are also plenty of kiosks nearby where you can buy drinks and snacks.
Venue: Gröningen, Helsingborg
Nearest parking: Opposite ICA Hamilton or on nearby streets (likely to be busy in good weather)
Nearest bus stop: Helsingborg Friabad
Photo credit: Lena Granefelt/imagebank.sweden.se
We’re delighted to welcome representatives from IKEA IT, Johnson & Johnson and Öresundskraft, who will introduce their companies and talk about their values and workplace culture. This event will increase your knowledge about working for a company in Sweden, and help you understand common cultural differences in the workplace, giving you a head-start when applying for jobs!
Please email us in advance with any questions that you have about working for these companies, or about business culture in Sweden generally. The last part of the evening will be a Q & A session, where we’ll put your questions to our experts! Email: info@hiconnections.eu
We warmly welcome Alexandra Johansson, HR Manager at IKEA IT, Jody Lodge, CEO of Johnson & Johnson in Helsingborg and Charlotte Esbjörnsson, HR Consultant at Öresundskraft, our guest speakers for this event!
Itinerary:
17:30-18:00: Doors open to guests for refreshments (tea, coffee, sandwiches) & mingle
18:00-18:45: HIC introduction & first 2 speakers
18:45-19:00: Break
19:00-19:45: 3rd speaker and Q & A
19:45-20:15: Mingle
Address: Drottninggatan 7A, 25221 Helsingborg (the auditoriet on the 2nd floor of the kommun offices)
Nearest bus stop: Helsingborg Rådhuset
We’re very pleased to offer you a guided tour of Fredriksdal Open-Air Museum and Botanical Gardens! The guides bring Fredriksdal to life and explain the history of this beautiful place and its importance in preserving historic buildings, rare animal breeds and plant species.
It’s also famous for its theatre, seasonal markets, gardens and celebration days. Whether you’ve visited before or are a first-timer, please join us for the inside story of this much-loved venue!
The tour lasts one hour and we have booked tables in the cafe from 15:15 so that you can enjoy a fika afterwards.
* Please note, the tour is limited to a maximum of 25 people including children, so please register below on Eventbrite and pay for your tickets as soon as possible in order to confirm your place. We cannot guarantee your place until payment has been received. Please note that the Eventbrite registration form only shows the event as “Free” because we are not using their payment system. Thank you!*
Ticket prices:
Adult (over 18 years old): 145 SEK
Adult with Kulturkort: 75 SEK
Child (over 6 years old): 45 SEK
Babies and children under 6 years old: Free
Please register your interest on the Eventbrite sign-up form first, then pay the total ticket price to Helsingborg International Connections, Bank Giro number: 5249-8425. Last-minute attendees can also pay by cash on the day.
You will receive an email to confirm your attendance. Looking forward to seeing you!
Venue: Fredriksdals museet & trädgårdar, Gisela Trapps väg 1, 254 37 Helsingborg
Meeting point: In front of the main entrance
Coffee time!
Join members of the local international community (International School of Helsingborg parents, HIC and more!) for coffee, cakes and chat in the cafe of Helsingborg’s famous concert hall (Konserthuset). Make new friends and learn more about this wonderful facility for young and old alike in the centre of town!
Address: Roskildegatan 1, Helsingborg (side entrance)
Nearest bus stop: Helsingborg Konserthuset
Photo: Kvinnokarta Helsingborg
Now you have the chance to walk in the historic women of Helsingborg’s footsteps! Join the “Kvinnokarta Helsingborg” on a city walk where you meet 10 memorable women; from the scary murderer to the teacher far ahead of her time. The walk lasts for about an hour and a half and the talk will be in English.
Here’s some information from Kvinnokarta Helsingborg:
“A study circle at Medborgarskolan has developed the “women’s map” that forms the basis of the city walk. The Kvinnokarta Helsingborg project is a grassroots project by citizens who are tired of the one-sided storytelling about Helsingborg. We have no authorized guides and are not historians but our project is entirely based on the participants’ genuine interest in highlighting the women in Helsingborg’s history. If you have any information we are missing, please share them with our guides.
Other information: The tour is approximately 3 km long and is available for the permobil / wheelchair. Please dress according to the weather – the walk will only be cancelled if there is a big storm and in that case you will be notified via sms.”
Meet by the fountain next to the library (Stadsbibliotek) main entrance, Bollbrogatan 1, 25225 Helsingborg
Read more about Kvinnokarta Helsingborg (SVT nyheter, 7 March 2018)
The library is a central hub for the whole community – what can it do for you, and just as importantly, what can you do for it?
Join us at the town library to find out how Helsingborg’s new initiatives in digitalisation affect us all, and how the needs of ordinary people are driving these exciting developments in healthcare and the home.
You’ll also hear which services are most useful for the local international community and how the library views its visitors as “part of the collection”. Libraries the world over are talking about the need to search for knowledge in their own community – everyone has their own knowledge to share, their own story to tell. What’s yours?
Digidel is the new digital space at the Stadsbibliotek, open to all. The kommun has invested time, energy and resources into making this space available. How would you like to use it? How can it help you? Would you like to learn new skills at Digidel, like 3-D printing or virtual reality filming, which will help you expand your knowledge or improve your CV? This is your opportunity to find out what is available and to give your input into how the facilities are used.
The library is the knowledge hub in our city – did you know a library card gives you access to 6000 online newspapers and magazines in different languages? Or that you can learn languages online for free, with the textbooks you need to support your learning available at the library? You can find easy-reading Swedish books too, ideal to boost your fluency in the language.
Please join us for a very interesting insight into the heart of our community and the future of digitalisation in Helsingborg! To get an idea of the scale of the development going on right now, take a look at this article about Helsingborg as a test bed for new technology from Helsingborgs Dagblad, 24 March 2018.
You can read more about Digidel and Stadsbibliotek here (Biblioteksbladet, 9 April 2018).
Itinerary
17:15 Meet upstairs
17:30 Talk by Eva Hveem about Digidel and other library services; demonstration of Digidel facilities
18:30 Short tour of other useful library areas
18:45 Depart
Address: Helsingborgs Stadsbibliotek, Bollbrogatan 1, 25225 Helsingborg
Please note, food and drink will not be served at this event, but you are welcome to buy a drink at the cafe downstairs and bring it to the talk
Coffee time!
Join members of the local international community (International School of Helsingborg parents, HIC and more!) for coffee, cakes and chat in the cafe of Helsingborg’s famous concert hall (Konserthuset). Make new friends and learn more about this wonderful facility for young and old alike in the centre of town!
This is a regular monthly event – the next one will be on Tuesday 8 April. All welcome!
Address: Roskildegatan 1, Helsingborg (side entrance)
Nearest bus stop: Helsingborg Konserthuset
Co-create, co-work and collaborate with our co-hosts THINK Open Space and Hyperdrive!
Join us for a fun and inspiring event as we check out three great spaces in Helsingborg, starting at THINK Open Space and Mindpark, then moving across to Pixlapiren.
Rebecka Nilsson, Community Manager at THINK Open Space, will kick off the evening by introducing us to all the facilities on offer and letting us know about the many projects and events taking place. Did you know that THINK Open Space is a kommun-owned space, available to anyone to work, hang out and enjoy the friendly, international vibe? Or that the auditoriet can be used for free by any organisation wanting to put on a free knowledge-sharing event? This is your chance to find out more!
We’ll then have a guided tour of Mindpark, the cool and calm co-working space upstairs, where you can rent different sized offices or desk space, or even buy a card where you can use the facilities 12 times in 12 months. There’s a communal feel to Mindpark, where you can be involved in joint weekly lunches and other events or just chat by the coffee-maker with your co-workers!
At 17:45 we’ll walk across to Pixlapiren, where David Hare of Hyperdrive will talk to us about the many creative opportunities and activities available there. From 3D printers to an eco-friendly car, arts & crafts to DJ workshops, skateboarding to graffiti, there’s a place for all kinds of creative expression at Pixlapiren – come and find out how you can make the most of this child-friendly makerspace to engage with your hands, build what you planned, create it and paint it. Bring the projects that are too big to work on at home and let loose your creative energy, or set up a study circle or coffee morning at Pixlapiren. Did you know that you can even apply for funding from the kommun to help create your vision?!
We hope to have some of the artists and creators on hand to show you their projects, too 🙂
We can’t wait to show you these supportive, collaborative locations, so please join us to find out what’s happening in this part of town!
Event details:
17:00 Meet at the stairs in THINK Open Space, Bredgatan 11, 25225 Helsingborg for intro & tour
17:45 Walk to Pixlapiren, Oceangatan 2, 252 25 Helsingborg
18:00 Pixlapiren intro & opportunity discovery