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The main goal of the activity was raising awareness about different mobility programmes among local students and the local community in general.
On Thursday, October 17th Erasmus Student Network Trieste took part in a presentation titled “Transborder educational mobility opportunities for youth”.
Our volunteering association organised the event in collaboration with Europe Direct Trieste for the Erasmus Days 2024 (14th to 19th October). The Erasmus Days are held every year to celebrate the Eramus+ programme of the European Union, and ESN Trieste takes the chance to promote the many international mobility opportunities among youth.
The institutional greetings delivered by Kristina Valencic on behalf of Europe Direct Trieste were followed by an introduction by ESN Trieste’s President Rita Puligheddu. Afterwards, our volunteers talked about their mobility periods, moderated by Margherita Giordano: some of them came to Trieste from other countries and then decided to stay, like the German student Giovanna Lauer, and some of them left Trieste for a few months to go abroad, like Alice Delben and Luca Masiello.
Although their stories were very different from one another, they all had something in common: enthusiasm for their mobility experiences, the certainty of the personal and academic growth that came with them, and a piece of advice for their peers: “Don’t be scared, dive into the experience, you won’t regret it”.
Speeches were not limited to mobility for studies: Enrico Armenia also talked about his many experiences abroad, such as the European Solidarity Corps, mobility with EURES, and Erasmus for young entrepreneurs.
