GigaWatt. A game about the energy transition, a topic which is very complicated and not easy to solve. In GigaWatt it is your job to solve this puzzle! The game was created by three IAESTE Netherlands Alumni! In this episode, Mark will talk with them about the game and also how their experience with founding IAESTE Netherlands is connected to the game! If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

IAESTE: https://www.iaeste.org/
Podcast: https://podcast.iaeste.org
GigaWatt: www.gigawattgame.com/kickstarter
GigaWatt- To make people aware about the challenge of energy transition from coal and gas to renewable energies such as wind and solar, we have created this exciting board game. It is important for people to undersand that this is important to stop or at least slow down climate change, in order to keep our planet habitable for future generations.

The president of IAESTE A.s.b.l., Thomas Faltner, just got re-elected for another two years at the Annaul Conference 2022 in the end of January. In this episode, Mark and Thomas will discuss the lessons leanred from the AC and the strategy of the association moving forward. Additionally, Mark will ask Thomas regarding his leadership style and what he brings to the association. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

IAESTE: https://www.iaeste.org/
Podcast: https://podcast.iaeste.org

Isabella and Qais met and fell in lvoe during their IAESTE internship. They recently got married. They sit down with Mark to tell their story, please enjoy. We are sorry for the audio, as is trembles sometimes. (The reason were some audio setting, which starts echo after some time. This did not show up in the test recordings.) If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

IAESTE: https://www.iaeste.org/
Podcast: https://podcast.iaeste.org

Karel Smejkal is the president and co-founder of INSPIRELI. IAESTE partnered up with INSPIRELI to support their Beirut Port project. In August 2020 a devastating explosions destroyed or damaged nearly 50% of all buildings in Beirut. INSPIRELI hosts a competition for young architects where they can contribute to the reconstruction of Beirut. Together with Mark, Karel will discuss the history of INSPIRELI, the Beirut port competition and something Karel calls the Netflix of architecture. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

IAESTE: https://www.iaeste.org/
Podcast: https://podcast.iaeste.org
INSPIRELI: https://www.inspireli.com/en/awards/

What a year it has been. In this short episode, Mark looks back to the first 14 episodes of Work.Experience.Discover and outline future plans. We will come back after the Annual Conference 2022 with new episodes! If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

Andressa Leonilia is from Brazil and used to be an IAESTE volunteer for IAESTE Brazil and an IAESTE trainee in 2019. Originally, Andressa is from the shantytown of Sao Paulo. Work, passion, and dedication helped her to join university and to fulfill her dream to go abroad. Today, she lives in Sweden with her boyfriend. Together with Mark, she recapitulates her experiences with IAESTE and her internship. The support of the association in Brazil and in Sweden, because for her, IAESTE changed everything. If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

In this episode, Sebastian Timson Smith from Australia is joining Mark to talk about his 10-month internship in Austria. Sebastian is a mechanical engineer for him, it was his first experience in an engineering environment. Consequently, they will discuss the classical onboarding process, but also language differences and first impressions. If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

After more than 20 years, Bruce Wicks decided to leave IAESTE to pursue a career outside the association. In this episode, he sits down with Mark to tell him about the way he joined IAESTE UK and later the IAESTE A.s.b.l. support team. They recapitulate the past 20 years on how the association develops. We will miss you Bruce, but we are looking forward to meeting you at the next Alumni Conference! If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

The ITS team are five motivated volunteers under the supervision of the IT Manager of the IAESTE A.s.b.l. support team. Jerry, Martin, Prachi, Samuel and Aditaya keep our IT infrastructure running and develop our Exchange Platform to improve the usability and the exchange program itself. In general, we all just see how much we rely on our IT once it is not working. Therefore, we consider our ITS team as the hidden heroes of IAESTE A.s.b.l. and we want to bring them into the spotlight. If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

Lisa studied Biotechnology at BOKU University in Vienna, Austria. In this episode, she talks with Mark about her internship in Kazakhstan, how she got there and what her grandparents had to do with her journey. How are labs different in Kazachstan from the Labs in Austria? How did she benefit from the internship? All these questions are answered by Lisa. Additionally, Lisa did a second internship in Israel, which they will also talk about shortly. If you are interested, please have a look at our website: https://podcast.iaeste.org We are aiming to release episodes bi-weekly. If you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us via [email protected]