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Saturday 14 July 2018

Thais Franken graduates as Bachelor of Arts Organization,

Governance and Management

guim and did a “summer Thais also did a inventory sity of Aruba, particularly
course” at the Haagse of the amount of creative the “Organization, Gover-
Highschool. As a student and cultural resources of nance and Management”
Thias was the assistant of Aruba. Thais interviewed 16 department congratulates
Dr.Luc Alofs in the project representatives in the field Thais with her achievement
Travelling Cultural Heritage, of creativity and culture and wishes her all the best
which project finances the and did a SWOT and TOWS in Maastricht. For more info
Scientific Investigation Insti- analysis. The analysis gave on what The University of
tute in Holland (NWO). 28 strategies which could Aruba has to offer please
facilitate a development visit their website of Face-
Regarding her tesis, Thais of a new niche in Aruba in book. http://www.ua.aw/
studied national docu- the field of creativity and OGM
ments of economic man- culture, the so called “Cul-
agement, UNESCO docu- ture and Creative Industries https://www.facebook.
ments and documents (CCI). com/pages/University-of-
ORANJESTAD ― Last Fri- Thais did her internship at investigating how coun- Aruba-OGM-Organization-
day in a classroom at the the Department of Econo- tries with a small economy Thais is now going to do her Governance-Manage-
University of Aruba, Thais my, Commerce and Indus- (SIDS) can attend with “Sus- Masters at the University ment-FAS/ q
Franken defended her te- try (DEZHI). There her pas- tainable Development”. of Maastricht. The Univer-
sis successfully in front of sion for culture and her in-
the graduation commission terest for the topic “Sustain-
which consisted of Dr.Luc able Development Goals”
Alofs, Drs.Yolanda Richard- (SDGs) in the area of cul-
son and Zulema Dabian- ture and creativity, which
Erasmus, MA. The defense could be a possible new
of her tesis took place in economic pillar for Aruba,
front of a mixed audience, grew more and more.
family members, friends
and classmates. Before this Thais did a edu-
cational exchange in Bel-