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Dance me to the moon
Dance is one way to build a passion between two people and what an artistic way it is… When you dance with your partner, at the very moment you are in the world that consists of just the two of you. And for the outside world, you speak an unknown language, which is not audible,…
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How I will change society: Michalis Georgiou
Michalis studied electrical circuits and renewable energy technologies at a local institute. Growing up, he remembers in high school that he was getting angry when the other schoolmates didn’t throw their plastic bottles inside the recycle bin. That’s why, the idea of his project is to create a recycle bin in the shape of a…
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How I will change society: Andria Spyrou
Andria’s project is about Fast Fashion Industry and how the current fashion business model has brought an excessive production of garments at a great cost. The project aims to uncover the dark realities behind the fast fashion industry and garment manufacturing in respect to the environment and human exploitation, which are not directly observable by…
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“Change the world and help humanity” – Elon Musk
Space, the final frontier. Last month there was a historical event, the first human orbital spaceflight launched by a private company. Exciting moments as NASA and SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule with two U.S. astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, in a history-making flight to the International Space Station. On Saturday…
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How I will change society: Christoforos Hadjiandreas
Christoforos is a global health enthusiast and a future physician who aspires to advocate for public health and empower other students all around the world to actively participate in healthcare matters. He believes that within non-formal as well as peer-to-peer education, more young people will not only self-develop but also enhance their skills and be…
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History of PRIDE
Not so long time ago – 1969 when homosexuality was illegal and highly criminalized – the history of pride begun in New York. June 28th, 1969, police arrived to Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. 200 people inside resisted arrest as the police started homophobic violence, and it started series of spontaneous, violent…
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The weakening of language’s power: social media, communication’s noises’ and superficial relationships
I am always amazed by how much art can make us reflect about life in different angles, and also by how much discussing about it – whether it is a painting, a movie or a book – with other people allow us to expand even more our points of view and thoughts. Due to social…
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Quarantine reflections: who do we really want to be?
I consider myself a pretty reflective person and during this whole quarantine I have had plenty of time to reflect on myself and on the outer world. Food for thought was given to me yesterday too when I came across this quote by renown Indian spiritual leader Osho Rajneesh: “[…] the human being profoundly fears…
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How I will change society: Marianna Parmatzia
Marianna Parmatzia is an art educator from Cyprus, who believes that art could be used as a medium for communication by creating a universal language that everybody can understand. As an Art teacher she decided to organize a workshop – which is called “What’s Your Story?” – encouraging participants to share their stories through artistic…
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How I will change society: Marios Limnatis
The problem that Marios will try to solve is to show to the people that we can have a different point of view about businesses and economic systems. He want to prove that businesses can give back to the people, to the society from their net income and still do well. Marios and his partner,…
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HERstory: Margaret Hamilton
Have you ever thought who stands behind such a big success of humans like stepping on the Moon? Probably we all know Neil Armstrong, the American astronaut who was the first human to stand on the Moon, but we might not always think about many other people who were part of this big event. Here…
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