By Laila M. Lange (Groningen, Deusto, 2021-2023) Inés Bolaños Somoano did a Bachelor’s in English studies, before joining the Euroculture programme in 2015. She attended the University of Göttingen and Palacký University Olomouc and finished the Master’s programme in 2017 with a thesis on Islam and terrorism in the European Union. When finishing the Master’s … Continue reading In Focus: After Euroculture || Interested in Doing a PhD? Inés Bolaños Somoano’s journey to a PhD at the European University Institute
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Interview conducted by Laura de Boer Atiena Abed Nia is a fourth semester Euroculture student, having started the programme at Georg-August-University Göttingen and completed her second semester at Uppsala Universitet. At the end of her second semester in Sweden, she also took part in the 2021 Intensive Programme (IP) hosted by Uppsala. Euroculture Magazine [EM]: … Continue reading In Focus: IP || Atiena Abed Nia (2020-22, Göttingen – Uppsala)
Interview by Leonie Glaser Stella Meyer is a German Euroculture alumna from the 2019-2021 cohort, having studied in Uppsala, Göttingen, and Bilbao. In the following article, Stella tells us about her life as a recent Euroculture graduate. Entering the job market, even with a MA, is not that easy. I am an inherently indecisive person. … Continue reading The Entry-Level Paradox: Stella Meyer on the pitfalls of post-grad job searching
Interview conducted by Loura Kruger-Zwart The Intensive Programme can seem daunting to new Euroculture students, but it doesn't have to! Jodie van 't Hoff talks us through the IP preparation phase, paper writing process, and how the (online) IP in 2021 went for her. While Jodie's Euroculture experience has been almost entirely online due to … Continue reading In Focus: IP || Jodie van ’t Hoff (2020-22, Groningen – Olomouc – Göttingen)
Interview by Laura de Boer Katherine Arena (2020-2022) has done her Bachelor in European Languages and Cultures at the University of Groningen, where she majored in European Politics and Society. Her first Semester of Euroculture was spent in Groningen and her second in Udine. She is currently doing her internship at the Institute for Minority … Continue reading In Focus: 3rd Semester || Internship at the Institute for Minority Rights
Felicitas comes originally from Nuremberg, Germany, but she has always been a real globetrotter eager to explore her surroundings. When she was 15, she spent a few months in Limerick, Ireland and that set the start to wanting to move abroad and trying out different things. Since then, she has lived in Ireland, New Zealand, … Continue reading In Focus: After Euroculture || Felicitas Rabiger’s Experience as an International in the Swedish Labour Market
First-semester students don’t have a lot of information yet about Eurocompetence II in the second semester. To give first-semester students insight into what they can expect from their second semester, the SOS Eurocompetence II series introduces students who have done the subject already. This interview is held with Alessandra Pantanosas (nickname: Sandi), a current third-semester … Continue reading In Focus: Eurocompetence II || Alessandra Pantanosas (2020-2022)
Francesca Brandi is an Italian alumni from Euroculture who studied in Göttingen for her first semester and Deusto for her second one. For her third semester, she undertook a research track in Mexico city. Francesca shares with us her Euroculture experience and briefs us on what her life has been like since she graduated, what opportunities she found, which cities she lived in, and what her next steps will be.
This article is part of the IP 2020 series, in which we publish abridged, general-public versions of the academic papers presented in the Euroculture Intensive Programme. This year’s topic was Sustainability. Lea Marie Quilitz graduated from Euroculture in 2021 after spending semesters in Strasbourg, Uppsala and Göttingen. Since the IP 2020 sparked her interest in the topic of … Continue reading In Focus: IP || IP 2020: Between Changing Europe and Collecting Miles
In this edition of the Euroculture City Guides, Hannah Vos (American), who recently finished her second semester at the university of Olomouc, will give you an insight into life in the American city of Indianapolis - state capital of Indiana - where she studied her undergraduate degree before Euroculture. The City Guide Project is led … Continue reading City Guide – Indianapolis
