Tiiiit! Inc. are informal gathering from Skopje, Macedonia who think of happiness as an obligation rather than a random occurrence, and by this motto they organize various cultural events in their home city. “We take our motto seriously and we deeply believe that Skopje needs interventions like ours.We try to spice every season and organize at least one event in Skopje.So far we have created 7 events and we’re very happy with the direction in which Tiiiit! Inc. is heading”.

Studying abroad taught me how to communicate with people from different cultures – an ability very important for the current business world which has gone absolutely international. I dare to advise you to find a university which encourages your personal development and supports you in all of your initiatives because I believe in that one cannot know how far one can fly if one never opens their wings.

Where is the position of comparative literature today? Comparatists might be the only agents in the society today whose focus would not necessarily orbit around profit. It’s the profession which aims to truly embrace simply what is humane. Profound interest and knowledge in books, cultures, tremendous curiosity to all social phenomena – those would be just few of the characteristics that could pin down the comparatists.

I am Eni Mazniku, a law student from Albania. Actually, I am enrolled in the Public Law master program, at Faculty of Law at the University of Tirana. Personally, I strongly believe that a good student should try to maximize his/her capacities in order to maximize the benefits. In my professional life thus far, I have had a few achievements. One of them, on which I want to focus in this article, is the internship at Council of Europe Office in Tirana.

It all started from Mladiinfo’s Facebook page, where I noticed a call for a volunteer in Finland, in the pearl of the North, Helsinki. HELSINGIN LYHYTAIKAISKOTI JA TYÖPAJA LYHTY RY was looking for a voluntary worker, via the European Voluntary Service, to work and assist a group of intellectually disabled men in their outdoor workshop for botany and gardening. Next thing I know, I’m on the flight to Helsinki.

I have very high expectations of this course, partly because I see it as a type of guided traveling through the landscapes of Macedonia or the US, with the students themselves being the tour guides. Of course in this process both parties learn a lot not only about the culture of the new country they are exploring, but also about their own cultures. I find this notion very exciting and innovative – this is why my expectations are so high.

Education saves people. It opens doors and creates new opportunities for development and change. Education changes mentalities and shapes patterns. We have a long way to go in terms of implementing reforms aimed at raising awareness among students, improving the teaching quality and eliminating corruption. Nevertheless, if you invest in education, after one or two generations, the people will start building their country themselves.

“AAU is a truly unique university.I like how international it is and how it enables students to get to know other cultures more closely and learn to be more open and tolerant. This is the case especially with Central and East European Studies, a program which concentrates on the political, economic and socio-cultural role of Central and Eastern Europe. It allows students to learn how the peoples of the region have affected one another in the past, and also to learn more about that relationship in the present.” Ekaterina Chernysheva (Russia)

In Romania, it is common to pay the driver for taking you from one place to another. During the communism regime, hitchhiking was a usual practice because there were fewer cars and not so many things to spend money on. So hitchhiking was pretty common. People knew where to stand, and card just picked them up. With capitalism, one may think that this is not a very decent way of getting by. So if you don’t have a car, there is always the possibility of train or coach, you might be told.

Magi Nazer’s dedication to non-formal education grew out of her previous and lasting passion for community service and volunteering. One of the most important things she realized was that whenever you help others, you help yourself. This is why volunteering and non-formal education became part of her everyday life as well as part of her overall °mission° in Life: to assist people in their path of self-development and in their quest for happiness and better possibilities.