Volunteers4EU

A year full of advantures and memories comes to an end. When we first arrived in Åmål it was an unknown place but with time we became able to call it a home - our home. But now it is time to move on and leave the space for the next volunteers to make it theirs. Thanks to everyone who has been with us during the year. This episode is our farewell to you and an opportunity of reflection for us. Vi ses!

Music: Yeah by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

Today, we sit down with serenity to acquiesce the prejudices we had at the beginning of our year abroad and compare them to our subjective reality and the experiences we made. Today, it's time for stereotypes versus reality!

1. Stereotypes regarding...

...Sweden

...Italy

...Germany

2. Highlights of the past weeks

#saynotoracism

Music: Yeah by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

In this episode, we are talking about Swedish midsummer traditions and Swedish summer in general.

- Midsummer

- Our last weeks

- Swedish summer

- The highlight of the week

Music:

Yeah by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Artist: http://audionautix.com/

In this episode, we are talking once more about stories that we would tell our grandchildren one day if they ask us about our time in Sweden.

- Anecdotes to tell our grandchildren

- The highlight of the week

In this episode, we are talking about stories that we would tell our grandchildren one day if they ask us about our time in Sweden.

- Anecdotes to tell our grandchildren

- The highlight of the week

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

In today's episode, we want to share our thoughts concerning the climate crisis and the Fridays For Future movement.

- Fridays For Future

- The generational conflict

- Going to school vs. demonstrating

- Résumé

- Highlights of the week

Music: https://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Half of our time in Sweden is over now. We want to use this as possibility to talk about the first part of our European Voluntary Service and the upcoming 5 months.

1. What is one word you would pick to describe the last months and why?

2. What changed since the first day in Sweden? How did your perceptions of the city and of the project mutate?

3. Did the reality match the expectations you had when you left for Sweden?

4. What do you want to work on for the next half of the year? What are your goals and what are you looking forward to?

Music: www.bensound.com

This one is about the elections to the European Parliament, held from the 23rd to the 26th of May 2019!

- Responsibilities and tasks of the European Parliament

- The political groups in the Parliament

- Why should you vote and what are the benefits of voting?

- How to vote (from abroad)?

- How to inform yourself and the campaign "This time I'm voting"?

- Why is the United Kingdom not part of the election?

- Our highlights of the past weeks

Music: www.bensound.com

Our ninth pod is here! :)

This week we wanted to talk about the crisis of liberalism.

- Where can/could we see that liberalism is in a crisis?

- Why is today's liberalism in a crisis?

- What suggestions are there to solve the problems of liberalism?

- Are there already existing solutions?

- The highlights of our last weeks of January in Åmål

Music: www.bensound.com

Our first pod in 2019! :)

- Our Christmas Eve

- The highlight(s) of our holidays

- Our New Year's Eve

- Our expectations for the year 2019

- What is waiting for us globally and politically: the Brexit, the European elections, our hopes for the evolution of our Europe

- The highlights of our first weeks back in Åmål

Music: www.bensound.com