2nd Annual General Meeting: New York

The second Annual General Meeting of OCEANS Network took place at Parsons The New School For Design in New York, USA on September 16-17. The two-day event gathered more than 80 international students and young graduates of a variety of the mobility projects the EU has set up with the industrialised countries Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the USA. The young people met to discuss further strategic development of the Network, to take part in different workshops and to explore New York as part of the networking activities among the worldwide members of the Network.

Carlos Teixiera, Associate Professor at Parsons, School of Design Strategies - our moderator of the workshop in project management - was so kind to provide us with his presentation and links about his projects. Check out...

1st International photo competition

The Coordinating Board together with AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V.  organised the first international photo compeition of OCEANS Network.It was all about intercultural experience! OCEANS members were invited to send us their photo that depicts cultural identity in a multicultural society, cultural encounters, differences or similarities that they experienced during and after your time abroad. The photo should illustrate one of these themes in a creative way. Matteo Fiorio and Wonuk Park have won a scholarship (tuition and accommodation) for the Summer Academy on Intercultural Experience. For more information, please click here.

"Get to know Europe workshop" in Sydney

On the morning of 8th April 2011, 60 young Australians from across the country gathered inside the University of Sydney’s New Law School Building, and waited for one special arrival. The day’s event, the OCEANS “Get to know Europe Workshop” involved OCEANS working together with the Australian Government and the European Commission in providing a service for Australian students interested or engaged in educational exchange to Europe. Kick-started by words of wisdom from the Australian Ambassador to the European Union, H.E. Dr. Brendan Nelson, the event involved an intercultural training equipping the students with useful tools for understanding and managing differences between cultures when abroad. Read more...

Networking in South Korea

A special lunch reception to introduce the OCEANS Network was held end of March 2011 in South Korea at the Novotel in downtown Daegu.

Why Daegu? – well three universities in this city have two active EU/Korea exchange programmes SAIPEKS – Study and Internship Program for EU and Korean Students and EUKLA – EU/Korea Leadership Alliance that allow EU and Korean students to combine an internship with their semester abroad, which means there are lots of potential OCEANS members… Indeed, the 1st OCEANS Network event attracted over 50 participants and an exciting combination of students and staff from Poland, Slovenia, UK, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Germany, and of course Korea. Read more...

1st International video competition

In December 2010 we invited our members to create a film to show what Christmas is like in their country or experience. This could be at their home, their hometown or wherever there might have been. The film could focus on the food, parties, culture or anything else! The movie makers Sophie Ryckaert, Elena, Tania, Olga and Silvia, Natalia Cesarz and Piotr, Maria-Luise Berrell, Alin Horj won travel and accommodation scholarships to an OCEANS event.

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