AURÉLIE My week in Denmark
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June 2014
Mads Clausen’s Danish savannah Many Danfoss employees don’t even know that. The Danfoss empire /side 3 main building hides an improbable room at its top. This part is perfectly in contrast with the modern atmosphere which reigns in all the rest of the building. This room it’s the chairman’s, the old Mads Clausen’s office. Mads Clausen built this office when he moved from the attic of his parents’ house in 1962. Indeed his company began to become very important as a global one, so he decided to establish his personal office at the top of his higher building to keep an eye on all his universe and his factories. He also wanted a cozy place which reflected his personality and passions. One of Clausen’s family favorite hobby was the hunt and mostly safaris. This is the reason why he transformed his room into a second African savannah. And now it’s still a marvelous world with an extraordinary history which is the memory of one of the most important figure in the history of Danish Industry. There you can contemplate many originals stuffed animals as a leopard, a giraffe, a rhinoceros or a lion, killed by Mads Clausen himself or one of his sons during safaris. This is no longer politically correct today thanks to the law about the African wildlife protection. You can also admire the vegetation, a wall depicting the African savannah or an exotic drum covered with zebra skin. The office has also many facilities like a large table, a marble desk with a heater to don’t have cold hands or
another desk for his wife Bitten. Even if he was always surrounded by his sceneries Mads Clausen liked to have his wife with him. Unfortunately she could only be there when important guests were coming because of their 5 kids. Clausen also had a small kitchen where he could hang a small wicker basket at the entrance as a tribute to his great-grandfather. “His greatgrandfather had a carpentry workshop and, from what I could tell, it was of enormous importance to the
boy. He watched his great-grandfather manufacture pumps and wooden shoes, and it piqued his curiosity. In 1962, when Mads had to move his office from the old farm to the new administration building, he insisted on hanging up a little wicker basket in the adjoining kitchenette. He remembered that his great-grandfather once had such a basket hanging in the kitchen, in which he kept rusks. As a child he would grab a snack from the basket. The basket that
hangs there now isn’t the original, but comes from our daughter, Karin. Mads hung it there to remind him of his great-grandfather ”said his wife. Today nothing has changed; everything has stayed like Mads Clausen left his room at his death in 1966, the basket and his stick are still there. But a modern computer and some electronic devices have been added because Jørgen Mads Clausen, the current president of Danfoss has taken up his father’s office.
Become a Pixeli
Pixelineland, Universe brand new attraction will bring happiness to all your family!!!
Your kids dreamt of its and it’s now real, they will become famous as a character of their favorite video game Pixeline. The world of the famous little blond girl, known by all the Danish kids is now real, there is in Nordborg at the scientific park Universe. This new attraction opened for the 2014 season as a little village which will probably make
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all your family happy and gives you lots of funny play time. Pixeline’s town at Universe is more than 10 different buildings multicolored and elaborate with many details like animals, café cups… You can also see everything you find in a real village such as a library, a bank and even a hospital. This attraction is a sort of little park inside a bigger one.
Pixelineland is very different from the rest of the park which is more based on science and adapted to an older public. In this “new universe” you can play with 46 various Pixeline games hidden in all the shop windows and they are adapted to everyone.This part of the park defends Jørgen Mads Clausen’s general concept which is: learning is fun. The games are really varied, you can play with words, you can
dress Silke (Pixeline’s sister), discover geography and much more. Your kids will also probably cross Pixeline’s way and take a picture with her or having a big sweet hug from their heroine You can stay in the village if you have very young children because you have everything at hand, you can have a meal in the amazing picnic area decorated on the theme of the forest
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while your kids are in the playfield .So go to meet Pixeline and her friends and enjoy your day to Pixelineland!!!! If you have kids under 5 don’t hesitate to go to the “Waterworks” or to “the beach” where they can play in the sand while you relax in a hammock.
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A 4-years trip inside Danfoss Mette Møbjerg Nissen
Maria Elkjær Lindgren
Maria Elkjær Lindgren and Mette Møbjerg Nissen will finish their internship soon after 4 years of training across the different departments of the company. They changed of work every 6 months to have a more global view on the corporation. They were asked few questions about their experience. Maria Elkjær Lindgren a smiling young Danish woman talked about her ambition before being in the company. In fact her story with Danfoss started differently from the others’ one. Indeed she decided to trying to work at Danfoss Norborg after an accident which forced her to take a new way quickly: “I used to be a house painter but I broke my back and I really needed to have a job so I began one year of HG education and then I applied for a traineeship here ”. Fortunately she had obtained the job but she added that the Side 4
recruiters weren’t really openminded: “Those recruiters were one of the only negatives points of my adventure. However I like the people that I’ve met in the different departments” while her friend Mette told us that she encountered some difficulties with the sponsors who didn’t talk a lot. Today she hopes her training in this huge company will help her to find a great job in HR. Sitting beside her colleagues, Mette Møbjerg Nissen another trainee answered to the same questions. After economics studies (HF) she chose to apply for an internship in the company: “I Chose Danfoss because it’s a big global company and it sounded exciting to me to work here”. Even if she had sometimes found some difficulties she would recommend this internship to other student because she thinks that:
“When you have seen how a big company like Danfoss works in different workplaces, you are able to do various kind of work and to make changes”. This formation also confirmed her that economy is her vocation and that she is on the right way: ”I wanna stay in the economic world for the future”. She also has already met the difficulties of the office work:” The principal skill you should have for this job it’s to be able to stay sitting down behind a computer screen all day”.
Danfoss Nordborg is a real museum! Wherever you go across the main building you can admire modern paintings or sculptures realized during the 20th or the 21st century. The Art reflects the importance of the company but also a real effort of its leaders for your daily visual comfort. If you work at Danfoss Nordborg or if you have ever been there you must have already seen some of them. Can you remember where?
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1: Mads Clausen’s office (the chairman’s office),11th 2: Printerrum (room 611), 6th 3: The exit on Nordborgvej street ,2nd 4: Stairs,11th 5: Main hallway,10th
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Hi, my name is
AURÉLIE CLAUSEL and I’m nearly 16.
I’m from Lyon one of the biggest city in France and this week was my first time in Denmark. I came here to discover your company and your way of working. This week has been really interesting for me, I will probably keep an entirely positive picture of my experience.
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