Europe is us!

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. In the 28th episode, Gaming Without Shaming, we talked to Mihail Ivanov, a 17-years old gamer from Bulgaria. We talked about the influence of video games on youth, online socialization, learning languages, and discovering historical facts through gaming, but also online violence and actions to stop it.
In this episode, you can also hear from Gonçalo and Kamil, young gamers from Portugal and Poland, who agree that games have many positive aspects to them and that the number of women playing them is growing each day.
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Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. In the 27th episode, we are discussing the lack of trust in science, conspiracy theories among youth, and the importance of communication channels regarding scientific explanations. We talked to Boris Abramović, a Croatian journalist at Index.hr, who says Croatians were scared of the pandemic because of the communication style of Croatian politics, and the media later on as well. In this episode, you can also listen to M. D. Plamen Panayotov, who received an award for administering the largest number of vaccines against COVID-19 of all family doctors in Bulgaria, who says Bulgarians don't trust their government therefore they don't trust scientists as well, and Tiago Correira, an International Health professor at IHMT-NOVA and editor-in-chief of the international academic magazine Journal of Health Planning and Management. He pointed out that Portugal is a story of success when it comes to vaccination rates during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. Our guest this time was Esra Karakuş, a student from Strasbourg who still hasn't decided where she'd like to work. She does see herself in diplomacy, though. With her, we discussed the job market in Strasbourg and the importance of finishing studies and having work experience before applying for a job.
In The Watchdog's Perspective, we heard from Adam, a young journalist from Poland, who shared his career uncertainty with us; he wanted to be a programmer before, a cartoonist even. He ended up enjoying his role as a journalist.
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Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. Our guest this time is Rachel Rochelle, who came to Sweden from Uganda; she took a look back at her journey and commented on the biggest differences between the two countries, issues with documents and schooling she is facing, and the importance of her family being beside her in the time of her migration transition.
In The Watchdog's Perspective, we listened to an interview prepared by Myriam Baele, a journalist at RTBF, the Belgian public broadcaster. She talked to Sian, who traveled for 11 months to reach Belgium, about his dreams and the meaning of a successful life for him.
And Alexandra Crivilaru from JRS, a refugee service in Romania, tells us that many young migrants in Romania go from saying: "I know that I will return home", to changing this phrase to: "I will make a living here, in Romania."
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Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. Žan Luca Potočnik, a member of the Laboratory for the diagnostics of physical and motor development at the Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was our guest, with whom we compared body development of youth at a different age, talked about the influence of social media on the body image of youth, and also the reasons why Žan Luca picked sports as his primary interest. Our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective was Amelie Förster, a journalist from the German member of the Euranet Plus radio network, Ams. We also heard from youth from Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Kärg, Karolina, and Jakob. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Max kegfire on Shutterstock. 

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. Matas Saladžius, who went through military service in Lithuania, was our main guest in this episode. The young musician took us through the times he spent in the army, where he found time for creating music as well. Although the army is, as he says, "a soup full of everything", he found a creative company and even played in an army band. He found the service as a great way to improve the teamwork aspect, and he recommends it to everyone. We traveled around Europe and talked to Arūnas Balčiūnas, Head of the Military Conscription and Recruitment Service of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Georgi Angelov, a journalist at Free Europe Bulgaria, and Mateusz Kulik, a journalist at Polish Radio as well. Mart Valner from Raadio Kuku, based in Estonia, was our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth. Welcome to the second season! With this episode, we started the year in a relaxing way, discussing wishes and resolutions for 2023. We talked to Amelie Schneider, an Austrian student studying in Paris. She compared both cities, the diversity in them, and the public transport, she told us about the fear of loneliness, but also the energy among students, who welcomed many from Russia and Ukraine as well, due to the conflict happening in their countries. Lidija Petković was our guest in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European Year of Youth. In this episode, we bring you a selection of excerpts from our Euranet Plus Youth Summit, which took place in early December. Entitled 'Europe at play', it brought together MEPs and influencers (moderator Quentin Deschandelliers, Marcos Moschovidis, Lukaš Fritscher, and Karim Hallal Peche).
 
The focus was on what the European Year of Youth has managed to unlock this year, the need to have a 'youth test' in European legislation, but also the concerns and challenges of today's young people, from mental health issues to employment, relationships, social inequalities or climate change, which should be addressed. Finally, policy needs to work on ways to better engage with young people so that they themselves can engage with their future.
 
Journalists from the Europe is us! team also had the opportunity to ask questions to MEPs - listen to this episode to find out more.
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Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European Year of Youth. Our 20th episode is a special one as our guest in the European Parliament in Strasbourg was Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, the youngest-ever Member of the European Parliament. The Danish 24 years old MEP is a part of the European Free Alliance/The Greens. She told us what it's like to be in her role and how she looks at the European Year of Youth at the very end of it. She is the vice chair of the Subcommittee on Tax Matters, a member of four committees in the European Parliament, and a substitute at two of them, including the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Known as a fighter for a green, feminist, and solidary Europe she stressed the importance of making the Digital Euro project as green and as sustainable as possible. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Dmitry Mayer, Shutterstock.

Europe is us! But who are we? Listen to our international podcast focusing on youth during the European year of youth. In the 19th episode, we are talking about the field of artificial intelligence. Alessandro Ciociola, a PhD student in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering at Politecnico di Torino in Italy, and Chief Technical Officer at OccupyAI, was our guest. Artur Panasiuk, a journalist at Polskie Radio, a member of the Euranet Plus network, told us about how high Poland ranks in the development of AI in our regular section The Watchdog's Perspective in which we collect comments from journalists across Europe. In this podcast, you can also hear from Blaž Zupan, head of the bioinformatics laboratory at Slovenia's Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics in Ljubljana, who answered if Slovenia is ensuring the safe use of AI among young people. Brought to you by Euranet Plus. Host: Dino Subašić. Photo: Shutterstock.