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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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How I will change society: Vera Romanu
When Vera Romanu moved to Romania, she was 19 years old. She had no relatives or friends in Romania. Even she got used very fast to everything new, she had to face everything by herself: to find the student dorm, to reach the university building, to make some connections here, to discover the new city,…
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The last EVS-volunteer
From May 2019 to February 2020 I did my nine-month EVS at Volunteers Centre Skopje in the Macedonian capital Skopje – being the last of this kind, since the EVS program is now being replaced by the ESC (European Solidarity Corps). Already after a study-visit with the Young European Federalists (JEF) in 2017, I decided…
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Venice(s)
Did you think there was one and only Venice in Europe? If yes, then you might want to read what comes next! Actually, several cities featuring canals claim to be defined as the Venice of their geographical area. Let’s have a brief overview of a few of them, a glimpse into this exhaustive scope of…
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Anime
The word anime — pronounced “ah-knee-may” — is an abbreviation of the word animation. Anime is a word used by people living outside of Japan to describe cartoons or animation produced within Japan. Using the word in English conversation is essentially the same as describing something as a Japanese cartoon series or an animated movie…
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How I will change society: Ionut Barb
Ionut Barb from Romania is a young active citizen that wants to help the local community from Balan to develop among nature and his people needs. So, the problem that he wants to solve is to legalize the access with non-motorized boats on the gloss of the water for recreational purposes. Ionut was selected for…
