The Man Europe Doesn’t Want
Nothing could have prepared me for my first food distribution at the largest refugees and migrants camp in Serbia. One by one, hundreds of men lined up for a plate of hot food which we had cooked that morning....
Living on EARTH and building with EARTH
Human beings live on the planet since several millions of years and have learnt to adapt to the environment, to live on earth and to create shelters for protection, intimacy, family. In all regions of the world, humans have...
UnConference Freiburg
An unConference is a conference, but better. It doesn’t have a fixed agenda but rather develops on the spot. It brings together people from all sorts of different backgrounds and walks of life for a day full of new...
Marching into 2017- New Years Reunion in the Silvretta Mountains
Following an established tradition we met from 30th of December 2016 until the 2nd of January in a mountain hut close to the Bielerhöhe in Vorarlberg, Austria. This year about 30 people could join. It was really great to...
Discussing Sustainability at the Arab-European Young Leaders Forum in Doha
By Ansgar Fellendorf In the first week of December I participated for Pangaea Project and my university, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, at the 4th Arab- European Young Leaders Forum (AEYLF) in Doha. The event, organized by the Austrian...
Pangaea Reunion in Reusch, Switzerland 2015
Inspired by several former events we decided that it would be amazing to get together an outstanding group of motivated people. So while being cut off of electricity, power and water in midst Tanzania, I was trying to organise...
New Years – Resolutions, avalanches and peak fetishes
I think everyone knows this moment when you’ve prepared months for something or your anticipation is higher than the Mount Everest and you reach a point where you most likely have to turn around or let go of your...
Electricity comes out of the plug – and from wind (Pangaea Meeting)
We charge our phones with it, it fuels the light bulbs and runs complex computer systems – shortly, electricity has become an indispensible part of our lives! We take it for granted, and we wonder about it solely when...
New Years Meeting in Swiss Alps
I am from Down Under, but this year I am on an exchange, and my host sister Nora took me for New Years to the best country in the world – Switzerland. We came to meet with the other Pangaea members...
Discovering Moldova and More
What is the capital of Moldova? Most people probably would remain without an answer. It is Chisinau, or Kishinev, depends on your language. This already shows one of the dividing lines of Moldova. The majority of the former Soviet-republic,...