Freelance journalist for BarcelonaTips.nl (Dutch)

Between October 2009 and September 2010, Michiel worked as a freelance journalist for the Dutch website BarcelonaTips.nl, writing, editing and proofreading articles in Dutch (Flemish) about car rentals, how to find a parking space in the city centre, hotels and things to do in Barcelona.

 BarcelonaTips.nl is an online travel guide for Dutch speaking tourist coming to Barcelona, offering a wide range of articles about the city and its surroundings.

Michiel Das on BarcelonaTips.nl (30.09.2011)

Presentation of the Sant Cugat Network on the website of Cugat.cat (Catalan)

Interview with Michiel Das on the website of Cugat.cat, presenting his project Sant Cugat Network and explaining a bit more about his participation at the Yuzz programme. The interview was closely related with the radio interview that appeared one day earlier on the same website.

Yuzz is a programme for young entrepreneurs between 18 and 30 years old who want to launch a technology based business idea. The Sant Cugat Network was one of the selected projects to participate in the Yuzz programme of the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Michiel Das on the website of Cugat.cat (20.08.2011)

Radio interview about the Sant Cugat Network and life as a foreigner in Barcelona (Catalan)

Radio interview with Michiel Das for the Cugat.cat news magazine about the launch of the Sant Cugat Network, a non-profit association that wants to stimulate the contact between foreigners and locals living in the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès, and his life and experiences as a foreigner in Sant Cugat del Vallès, and in Barcelona in general. 

With more than 80000 inhabitants, the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès is one of the most important cities of the Vallès Occidental region, located directly behin the Tibidabo and Collserola Natural Park that seperates it from the city of Barcelona. Cugat.cat is one of the main news agencies of the city, with daily radio and television news, and a digital newspaper.

The interview can be found on the website of Cugat.cat.

Michiel Das on Radio Sant Cugat (19.08.2011)

End of the Yuzz programme (Catalan)

Report by TV Sant Cugat about the end of the Yuzz programme organised by the Banesto Foundation and City of Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Yuzz is a programme for young entrepreneurs between 18 and 30 years old who want to launch a technology based business idea. Michiel Das's project 'Sant Cugat Network' was selected, and during 6 months he participated in the programme, receiving support and advice (from assigned facilities where he could develop his idea, to counseling and mentoring sessions).

Presentation Sant Cugat Network (Spanish)

Article that written by Michiel Das for the Yuzz Blog, explaining his project Sant Cugat Network to the other participants of the Yuzz programme for young entrepreneurs that was organised by the City of Sant Cugat del Vallès and the Banesto Foundation,

The Sant Cugat Network is a non-profit organisation that was launched with the idea to improve the relationship between the foreigners and locals living in the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès, with more than 85000 inhabitants the third most populated city in the Vallès Occidental region of Barcelona.