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The future of gene editing
We all well know that us humans have been kind of doing gene editing for decades already. Or purposeful breeding if being more accurate. We have managed to create different dog breads by selective breeding for different purposes, some of them are really useful for helping us in various tasks and others, well…they are cute.…
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Kickoff: European Youth at the Frontlines of active citizenship, a Roadmap towards a collective “South-North-East-West” Momentum
Starting from 12th till 19th of March 2020 VCS Skopje was hosting the Planning Meeting for the Erasmus+ KA3 European Youth Together Project: “European Youth at the Frontlines of active citizenship, a Roadmap towards a collective “South-North-East-West” Momentum“. VCS Skopje is honored to be the Coordinating organization of this project. Co-Creating future opportunities tailor-made for…
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Welcome Dogukan, the new volunteer from Turkey!
Merhaba! I’m Doğukan, 23, from Turkey. I live in Cappadocia (air balloons, fairy chimneys…) in Turkey. I study primary school teaching at Nevsehir University and I have 1 semester to graduation. I realized in my first year at university that people can do crazy things just his/her youth. So, I leave my comfort zone and…
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Australia is burning
It’s not possible to pass by it in this beginning of new decade. Impossible, no, because it’s so big. Either by the size, by the intensity, by the duration. We are speaking here about the bush fires which are ravaging Australia. At least 25 dead, more than one billion dead animals, 100 000 people who…
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“To make an elderly person happy is the noblest act a young person can ever do!”
Diary of an ESC Volunteer It’s been already 3 months since my arrival in Málaga, Spain for an ESC project “Let’s Gardening with the Elders” and all I can say is wow, besides the beautiful Malaga I am also in love with this project. I wish I knew where to start describing, the elderlies really…
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Love me or pour me a wine
14th of February. The whole world is being decorated with hearts and cupids and everybody is talking about love. Well, almost the whole world. At the Balkans people are cutting grapevines and drinking wine. The day of love? The day of wine? Saint Valentine or Saint Tryphon? Both of them, Saint Valentine and Saint Tryphon,…
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Because of fungi
Molds, yeasts, rusts, smuts, bunts, toadstools, puffballs, stinkhorns, polypores… They can be venomous and even deadly. Or delicious and unbelievable healthy. But what do we really know about these extraordinary creatures and their business on this planet? Let’s spend a moment imagining that. If you think about fungi, probably the first thing that pops into…
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The Wood Wide Web … How trees communicate
A forest is a highly complex symbiotic community made up from plants, animals, bacteria and fungi that is yet hardly understood by humans. Did you know that trees are, just like humans, very social beings? And did you know, that trees actually talk to each other? Well – they don’t really talk, like the walking…
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Welcome Jules, the new volunteer from France!
Здраво! My name is Jules Striffler. I come from Alsace, a border area in France neighboring Germany and Switzerland. I studied first a Bachelor in Languages & Interculturality. Then, I decided to go for European Studies with the Erasmus Mundus joint Master of Arts in Euroculture. So far, I have been studying or working in…
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A friend is wanted
I don’t like to define – especially when it comes to people, people I don’t even know but I want in my life. To define is necessarily to limit. Sometimes, we can blind ourselves to wonderful people and shield ourselves from beautiful experiences because those we meet simply do not fit the characteristics that we…
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Students can change society through creative writing
How creative writing can be used as a tool to change society’s consciousness was a topic of discussion among students at the Faculty of Philology – Department of English Language and Literature at “St. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje. Elena Badaloska and Isabela Celevska presented to their colleagues the impressions, experiences and knowledge…
