Message from EDAMBA Presdsent Dimitris Assimakopoulos
This year we fondly remembered our fabulous Honorary President Hans Siggaard Jensen, who after more than 35 years of enormous (pro-bono) contributions sadly passed away, after a painful fight with cancer in late June 2024.
Hans will always be remembered and missed as our great friend and mentor, trained in the philosophy of science at UCLA and cross- and inter-disciplinary science, from philosophy to software engineering, knowledge management, and higher education across Europe and the world, and initiated so many EDAMBA projects at the Universities of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, and Aarhus School of Education.
Hans’s wife Bodil traveled from Copenhagen to Barcelona and shared our Gala Dinner at the winter Consortium. We expressed our love and immense sympathy to Bodil who has always been there with Hans in so many EDAMBA missions from day 1, when Hans was elected to serve as the Founding EDAMBA President-elect in the Stockholm School of Economics. We with Bodil praised Hans’s legendary courage to continue leading several of our activities for more than three decades!!!
On a personal note, I will never forget that together with Hans we upstarted our EDAMBA Winter Academy on Doctoral Supervision and the emergence of a Global Research Landscape – back in 2008, see photo from Chamonix / Mont Blanc.
