Time to hand-over...

It seems that it was yesterday when we started our term, when I took the first train from Schipol Amsterdam to Rotterdam and started this awesome journey! This is a picture from more than a year ago...

And this in 2006, me and my successor, Ildi, in Brussels for some meetings in the middle of transition!

It is a strange feeling when you realize you are closing a cycle to look behind and see what has happened with your life in the last 12 months and how's going to be from now on.
It is exciting to think at all the future possibilities and it is scary in the same time, as uncertainty is there...You don't know which are the best decisions, you don't know where can you find such good or even better environment to work in, if or when you'll meet the close friends you've made this year...
Dar vorba ceea, o sa fie bine pana la urma:)

In the same time I am happy to see a new generation coming up, full of energy, enthusiasm and ideas...
And even more when 2 of them are Romanians and dear friends:):)
Bine Coco si Gabiza!

Selfishness is not the best survival trait

A very interesting article in Financial Times about "co-operation" and "Cheating" in nature, maybe we humans we should learn from it...

"Winners never cheat and cheats never win, so the saying goes. And now there is a scientific evidence to support that adage, at least when it comes to microorganism.

To conduct the study scientists set up a series of competitions between two series of yeast. In one corner were the 'co-operators' which produce energy efficiently by taking in sugar slowly and fully converting into energy.

On the other side were the 'cheaters'which produce energy by taking all the sugar they can and only partially converting into energy - a technique that reduces the resources available for the group as a whole. The researchers found that the cheats accumulated toxins as a direct result of taking in resources more quickly that they could digest them, which limited the level of energy they could derive from the sugar."