The Living Education

In this episode, podcast hosts Camilla Bellatalla, Klaudjo Kavaja, and Paloma Lainz review and give their insights on some of the most interesting education movies for them such as The School of Rock, Yentl, Captain Fantastic, Dead Poets Society and Good Will Hunting. For those of you who haven't seem these movies yet, watch them before, as there might be some minor spoilers! Music: Hans Atom - Persephone 2015 (c) Licensed

In this episode, hosts Paloma Lainz and Klaudjo Kavaja focus on one of the most important master’s programmes in Europe, the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degrees (EMJMD) run by the European Commission. They provide a brief overview of the programme, how to apply to it, what are some of the benefits and challenges for graduate students while following such a prestigious and demanding master’s programme and also share their personal experience as graduates of GLOBED one of the EMJMD study programmes. You can find the EMJMD catalogue here https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/erasmus-plus/emjmd-catalogue_en For more information on the GLOBED Master’s programme visit the following website http://globed.eu/ Music: Hans Atom - Persephone 2015 (c) Licensed

In this episode, The Living Education host Klaudjo Kavaja, sits down and talks with Konstantinos Maragkos, a young entrepreneur from Greece and co-founder of YouthMakers Hub who was selected by the Forbes list as one of the Global Young Leaders under 30. Konstantinos explains us about his work in East and West Africa through his project WE Afrihug. How has his passion about Africa helped bring closer young people and students from six different African countries to Greece and Europe and how to be motivated and inspired to keep doing what you are doing. You can contact and follow Konstantinos Maragkos on Twitter @KLMaragkosYou can visit the WE Afrihug project website at https://www.weafrihug.com/And check out his other professional engagements at https://youthmakershub.com/Music: Hans Atom - Persephone (2015) Copyright - Licensed

In our first episode, we cover the effects of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in education systems globally. We talk about moving education from classroom-based to remote and digital-based, the challenges and opportunities that this entails, the role of the private sector, the response of different countries’ education systems to the outbreak, how this will shape the future of education, and we bring some of our personal feedback acquired through interviews with different actors. Music: Hans Atom - Persephone 2015 (c) Licensed