Just before Christmas 2017, I got this great news that my application to the STINT Teaching Sabbatical program had been accepted and I was moving to Singapore during fall 2018 with my family. I had been accepted as a STINT Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). This teaching sabbatical is a national scholarship by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), that Swedish universities can nominate candidates for each year. I was lucky to be nominated by Umeå University during fall 2017 and even luckier to be chosen to be a STINT Fellow at NTU in 2018.
Hence, after accepting this amazing opportunity, there were a lot to plan during the spring and a lot of questions going through our heads. One thing was the new family situation. After I applied for the fellowship, we got the notice that we were expecting our first child. Still we decided that it would be a great opportunity for the whole family to be able to move to Singapore and my partner could stay home with the baby.
However, not actually having the baby, a name or the social security number became a bit of a insecurity the start. Still we started the planning process and decided that prepare as well as possible as quickly as possible during spring.
The first ToDo list:
But the very first thing to do was to inform my colleagues and my boss about the great news that I had been accepted in the program as the first ever from my department and the “great” news that I was going to be away during the fall…
[expand title=”Click to expand some useful links:” swaptitle=”Useful links:”]- Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
- STINT – The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education
- STINT Teaching Sabbatical
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