Last week, we had the privilege of welcoming our Cuban guests to the BRICS and PVZ research centres at the Technical University – and what an inspiring day it was! From the moment they arrived, every tour, presentation and demonstration was conducted with passion and precision. Our visitors were truly impressed by the depth of our work and the warm hospitality they experienced. On a personal level, we have all been enriched by the expertise on display and the insights gained from challenging and rewarding clinical work on the treatment and care of neurodegenerative diseases in Cuba. It reminded us how fortunate we are to be working together on such important and rewarding issues, and how vital it is to pass on this privilege. Thank you to everyone who organised the day and contributed to its success, who led the tours and answered questions with such dedication. Above all, Dieter Jahn, Anita Remus, Jan Henrik Finke, Thomas Koller, Gabriele Raabe, Ingo Kampen, Christopher Heidenreich, Sven Gutperl, Ebrahim Taiedinejad, Arno Kwade, Carsten Schilde, Michael Müller, Iordania Constantinou. Their efforts not only demonstrated TU’s strengths but also built bridges for future partnerships. We look forward to continuing these discussions and exploring new ways in which we can collaborate across borders. Here’s to further learning, mutual respect and many more successful projects!
"That is why I value this little phrase “I don’t know” so much. It is small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer realms in which our tiny Earth floats. […] Had my compatriot Marie Sklodowska-Curie never said to herself, ‘I don’t know’, she would probably have taught chemistry at a private girls’ school for young ladies from good families and spent her days in this otherwise perfectly respectable job. But she kept saying: ‘I don’t know’, and those words led her not once, but twice to Stockholm, where restless, searching minds are occasionally rewarded with the Nobel Prize.” Wisława Szymborska’s Nobel Lecture, 1996