Hi, my name is Marisa Costa and I am 23 years old. I have a degree in Management from ISCTE – Lisbon Institute University in Portugal and next year, I will pursuit a Master’s Degree in Management with a specialisation in Strategy and International Management at NOVA School of Business & Economics.

I consider myself a person who wants to be in constantly learning and growing, discovering new destinations, cultures and ways of thinking while sharing what I know wherever I go. For these reasons, in the last years, I participated in a Summer School in the Czech Republic, in a youth Exchange in Slovakia and I volunteered in Bulgaria. Furthermore, I was one of the winners of the Imagine Europe Idea Contest 2019.

My name is Tamara and I am a third-year student at Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. At the university, I am engaged in research work on the prospects for the use of textile waste recycling innovative technologies in Ukraine and I have published two research papers on this topic.
With my social project “Designer Products from Recycled Textile Waste” I was the Ukrainian winner in the Creative Spark Big Idea Challenge organised by the British Council. In fact, I received two awards: Social Impact category country winner and Ukrainian People’s Choice winner. I represented my country in Great Britain and my project received the International Public Voting Award at the Big Idea Challenge in Oxford. I also had the chance to win the All-Ukrainian contest “Being Clever is Fashionable”.
I was a finalist of the Imagine Europe contest “My vision of Europe in 2050” in 2019. Furthermore, I participated in the UGRAD programme funded by the U.S. Government and in the Ukrainian scholarship programme “Tomorrow.UA” of the Pinchuk Foundation.
I was invited to participate in projects organised by Erasmus+, such as “СULTRURAL LAB III” in Poland, «Keep Moving Forward – Become an Entrepreneur» in Georgia, and “Green Steps for Social Change” in Spain.
As a speaker I took part in the Kyiv-Tex & Fashion International Conference and the Creative Enterprise Ukraine programme of the House of Europe.
As a journalist, I have worked at “Ivona.bigmir.net” and “Designers.ua” fashion online magazines.
I am creating clothes & accessories from textile waste under the brand name “TOMA&NINA”. My mission is to make our generation seriously think about the global challenge of environmental pollution by industrial waste.

Angel García (Santander, Spain)

Hola, mi nombre es Ángel. Escritor. Titulado Técnico Auxiliar de Enfermería. He seguido clases de filosofía en la Uned de Cantabria. Como Escritor ganador de varios certámenes literarios y finalista en Imagina Europa 2050 con la obra “Remo.” Actualmente administrador del la web Duende Europa. Premio de fotografiá “ReadersOfEurope” en la primera presidencia rumana del consejo de la Unión Europea, premio de la Unión Europea para la Literatura durante una ceremonia bajo los auspicios de la Presidencia rumana del Consejo , Obra “Pirámide de libros” Comprometido con la idea Europea, deseo de Unidad, Diversidad, Libertad y Paz. Una noche alguien me dijo : Mira que de estrellas hay en el cielo. Yo contesté: No hay ninguna. Él respondió: Si las hay, pero hay que mirar bien. Esa persona estaba en lo cierto.

Hi, my name is Angel. I’m a writer and a registered nursing assistant technician. I followed classes in philosophy at the Uned in Cantabria and had the chance to win of several literary competitions and was a finalist in the Imagina Europa 2050 contest with the video “Remo.” I’m currently the administrator of Duende Europa. I won the photography prize “ReadersOfEurope” by the first Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Union Prize for Literature during a ceremony under the auspices of the Romanian Council Presidency, for the work “Book Pyramid”. I am committed to the European idea, a desire for Unity, Diversity, Freedom and Peace. One night someone said to me: Look how many stars there are in the sky. I replied: There is none. He replied: Yes there are, but you have to look well. That person was right.