Erasmus Mundus Association Podcast: Recent Episodes
Marcela Chavez Ocampo
A podcast featuring Erasmus Mundus alumni stories across the globe. Find out what EMA members are doing after their programs. Did they stay in their home countries? Or how did they found that cool job abroad? What piece of advice can they give others to make the most from their Erasmus Mundus experience and leverage their networks?
In this podcast, we’ll interview EMA members who will tell us more about their career paths. Did they have a strategy? What were the decisions that took them where they are? What were the tradeoffs? Are they happy? Listen and enjoy!
Madina Karsakpayeva - Country Representative for Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association in Kazakhstan, the National UN Volunteer and the 1st participant of the UNDP-UNV Talent Programme for Young Professionals with Disabilities in Kazakhstan.
She holds a Master’s degree in Inclusive and Special Education through the Erasmus Mundus scholarship program. The program included three countries such as UK, Norway, and the Czech Republic. Madina is also a founder of the EMAbility project of the Erasmus Mundus Alumni Association, developing a project on higher education inclusion.
Madina is the 1st Erasmus Mundus alumna with a disability from Kazakhstan.
Stephanie is American and lives in the US now. She studied an Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Lifelong Learning Policy & Management in the UK and Spain. In this episode, she talks about how she dealt with depression while studying her program.
Pavan is from Bangalore, in the South of India. He studied the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Computation Mechanics in Spain and Uk. He now lives in Norway, works in a local organization company, and is an entrepreneur.
Katha is from Germany but is now living in Barcelona. She's the President of the Erasmus Mundus Association and talks about her experience studying a PhD.
Ely is from Mexico City and studied the Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Industrial Management in Spain, Italy, and Sweeden. When she got accepted to the program she had to decide whether to marry her boyfriend or ending her relationship.
Geline is from Tanzania and studied the Comparative Local Development Erasmus Mundus program in Italy, Hungary, and Germany. As an entrepreneur and a human rights activist, she has worked promoting and protecting Human Rights in her home country for more than 10 years.
Aham is from Damascus, Syria. He studied the International Masters in Service Engineering. After graduation, he decided to stay in the Netherlands and now lives in Utrecht and works in Amsterdam.
The Erasmus Mundus Association Podcast features stories from people from all over the world that got an Erasmus Mundus scholarship. They travelled to Europe to study for a Master’s Degree or a PhD. Now they have completed their studies and talk about their experience.
In this episode, Marcela introduces herself as the podcast host. She studied the Erasmus Mundus program in Media Engineering for Education (Education Technology) in France, Portugal and Spain, and now lives in Mexico City.