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Universities feel like secret clubs sometimes. As soon as you enter a campus, the language of those around you is changing, people talk about topics you can be unfamiliar with, they dress a certain way. It is an environment that evaluates your ideas, what you say or write. Universities have their own culture and if
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The academic world can be quite a jungle to hike through, especially if you are the first in your family to pursue a degree. Have you ever felt like you needed some support during your higher education journey? The idea to start Project FirstGen Philippines did not come out of nowhere: I was a first-generation
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Only later in life, I realized how much it impacted my educational and professional journey to be the first to study in my family. There was always this feeling that I actually didn’t belong in those environments. It felt like listening to a language I was not able to speak yet.
I was fortunate enough to have finished my studies in Braunschweig, Istanbul, and Uppsala after seven years of ups and downs. Afterwards I worked for years with the German Civil Peace Service and the German Development Agency partnering with university partners in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Timor-Leste.
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