Team member of WDEE

Juan Sordo Barreiro

I was born 27 years ago in Gijón (Spain). IT engineer, history geek and photography lover might be the main adjectives to define myself. But overall I'm pretty curious, and since I met one girl from Azerbajan who told me that her country was European I was looking for the answer of the question "Where Does Europe End?".

Lavinia Manea

Born 25 years ago in a city near the Romanian seaside, I would define myself as a realistic, multicultural, sea-loving person. I completed my BA and my MA in Foreing Languages and I'm currently doing a MA in International Relations and European Integration in Bucharest. I love foreign languages (across the years I have studied 8 of them), reading psycology books and what I mostly enjoy doing is smiling :)

I discovered the WDEE project while taking part in the kick-off conference in Hungary and I decided to get involved because I believe in the idea that stands behind it and because I have always wanted to be involved in a challenging international project. In addition to that, my work within this project is my way of saying "thank you" to AEGEE for all the wonderful experiences I've had so far over the years.

Katarzyna Bitka

I'm Kasia, 21 years old. I come from Poland, and here I'm studying Linguistics and International Economics. I joined the WDEE team in fall 2009, and I have been working on documentation of the project's results ever since. I speak fluently Polish, English and French, and I know some German and Spanish. I like dancing, travelling, cooking and watching movies. My favourite animal is bear ;) Hope to meet you soon in WDEE events!

Percin Imrek

23 years old Percin from Turkey studies European Studies in K.U. Leuven, Belgium. The founder of the Project also worked as the Project manager for 1,5 years, recently leaving his post to Juan, after being elected as the Chairperson of AEGEE. Now working as a content advisor, Percin is the only person who have remained from the original core team. Working for AEGEE-Europe for 1 year, full time as the Projects Director, he had the inspiration, idea and the courage to create this Project, which he have continued by forming a team who have all worked equally well to bring this Project where it is now. Enjoying travelling, languages, anything with a rhytym, Percin also works as a trainer, both in and out his organization. He speaks fluent Turkish and English, a good level of German, and enough French to survive ( still learning ) J

WDEE Kick-off conference Kőszeg 23-29 September 2009

Where Does Europe End project has started it’s first conference right after the hot summer of 2009. The starting point was in a small city in Hungary, Kőszeg where AEGEE-Pécs have very good connections. Due to this we had a high quality, three star hotel with plenty of food and nice atmosphere. The participants were well selected and motivated to contribute to the success plan of WDEE for the future, as the conference served as an input for us. It was kind of an experiment event, as we needed useful and competitive input to our ideas to make the most out of the first intentions of the project. Together with the great participants we managed to build up together the strategical plan of WDEE including future events and their topics and development of street action’s implementation. As WDEE it’s based on people’s perception of Europe (fisical and mental borders) we are focused on survey making in different representative parts of Europe as part of the project's overall concept is having events in geographically and culturally distinct locations within Europe in order to detect the different concepts of it.

Due to this in each country where we are going, we make our surveys with local people in order to find out their answers which are served to open up our perception of Europe. In Hungary there were three locations, the city of Kőszeg and Budapest and the university of Szombathely. In addition to the important street actions we had workshops as well held by WDEE team members and also by guest speakers named Dushana Zdravkova former EPM of Bulgaria and Rina Tsubaki the manager of European Journalism Center.