Famillages.   There's so much they can do!

What open minded families, connected in a world wide community, can achieve. Some selected case studies.

Zac, Theo & Darragh
How an Irish, a French and a German boy meet up every summer to get better at speaking the others' languages and give their parents a break too.

A Danish baby goes Thai
From a Danish dairy farm to a great job in pharmaceuticals in Bangkok.
​With partner and baby. And with helpful new friends to get started.

Heidelberg revisited 
Life stories rarely follow a smooth path, many have an extra helping of
​ups and downs. It can take a couple of generations to close the full circle.
​A lesson learned: Your kids have a claim to your mother tongue.

Two lingos, three states
Raising bilingual kids may require three nations and three generations.
Susanna's French husband never picked up any German. Now her four kids
​have a third pair of grandparents speaking Swiss German and French.

Lingo, music, medicine
A Madrid / Los Angeles connection based on English/Spanish, a great passion for music and a mutual interest in the medical profession. A Shared Mindspace case study at its best.

Ollie from Oslo

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Ollie is thirteen and his sisters think he is weird. In fact, he is very smart and has established a network of fellow researchers aged 8 to 15 in 42 countries. Ollie & partners take up the challenge whenever someone can't find a specific answer online. Right now they collect information on how different nations have dealt with rats in cities over the centuries, making the question both a biology and history project and a language project to translate all results into English.

​When times are tough
Julie lost her husband. Then her health. And finally almost her will to live.
​Networking often means connecting similar fates to regain strength. It worked.

Law and agriculture
Why it makes perfect sense to connect New York lawyers with organic farmers in the Swiss Alps. 

Ottawa & a detour to Sao
This case study demonstrates how helpful it is to access all possible options. Ricky went to Europe to learn Portuguese so that he could to go to Brazil.

Double and twice
Shared Mindspace for twins. And how to win an Oktoberfest bet.

Wildlife studies
An Irish-Indian partnership that was on hold for a generation.
Reconnecting online opened new doors for two zoologists' children.

Kicking the ball
A passion for football (soccer!) connects Sweden and Argentina.

Austria/Australia
Water sports, both liquid and frozen. Switching between hemispheres.

A domestic exchange
A German-German connection. The usefulness of domestic partnerships.

Stan from Stanley
Family partnerships make a real difference when you're going to have a baby abroad. They make even more sense once the baby is born.

The Heidi factor
A childhood fascination with Heidi and The Sound of Music. Across the Atlantic.

Loving the classics
A Salzburg-Glyndebourne connection spanning generations.

No borders in art
The passion to paint can start and maintain families.

Intelligent open villages
From doom to bloom. How small remote communities got a new lease of life
by opening up their minds and their doors against the odds.

And a few more ideas ...
There is a never-ending supply of ideas on how to use partnerships!
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