At our first day in Dnipropetrovsk, we had two very interesting Europe in the suitcase meetings.
After breakfast we went off to meet with the students from the Interregional Vocational Institute for Polygraphy and Information Technologies. Our team and the students first listened attentively to a speech on European values given by the institute’s director. During the meeting, which was also for us the first European in the suitcase meeting for us as a team, we played a quiz with the students and we were surprised by the many correct answers we got to our difficult questions… so where do the happiest citizens of Europe live? In Germany, the Netherlands, Italy or Great Britain?
Both teachers and students reminded us that the European integration process should not only offer exchange and educational programs to university students, but also to students pursuing a career as technicians, since they are the backbone of our economy.
We especially appreciated the warm welcome of the headmaster and the Institution staff. We would like to thank them here for hosting us and we keep in mind the interesting discussions we had after the conference with you!
Our second meeting was with students from the faculty of journalism at the Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University. Since the majority of the students were girls, we guess that especially our boys enjoyed this meeting – n’est-ce pas? It was a real pleasure and an intellectual challenge to engage in the very intense debate about the Bermuda-Triangle of Russian-Ukrainian-European relations.
As promised we would like to post here all the information we collected on scholarships and exchange programs for university studies in the EU… even if it is not an exhaustive list, we hope that you will find it helpful!
After a small city tour (see the pic below!) and coffee on the embankments of the Dnipr, we left for next meetings – which will take place in ZAPOROSHE…
PS: We would like to thank Arslan the Great from another ‘suitcase group’ for his very comprehensive mind map. :)
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