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In the second episode of Knowledgeable Youth, the students of the Free People Educational Hub discuss a theme that is close to their current experience and many others' in Vienna: migration. The group of Ukrainian students explore migration with Ukrainian scientist and researcher Olena Yermakova of RECET, drawing insights from her article "The Way Home.“ Join the students as they reflect on migration through their personal experience of forced displacement.

Knowledgable Youth: Science Communication in Times of War is co-organised by Eurozine, RECET, Radio Orange and the Free People Educational Hub in Vienna. The project is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. Read more about the project here: https://www.eurozine.com/focal-points/youth-project/.

Welcome to the first episode in the Knowledgeable Youth series! This series is developed by students from the Free People Educational Hub – a school for young people from Ukraine based in Vienna, who have been displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Together, they explore current themes in the social sciences. This episode introduces the young voices behind Knowledgeable Youth and shares how education is a means to freedom for them.

This project was co-ordinated by Carine Chen (Eurozine) and Irena Remestwenski (RECET).

Knowledgable Youth: Science Communication in Times of War is co-organised by Eurozine, RECET, Radio Orange and the Free People Educational Hub in Vienna. The project is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. Read more about the project here: https://www.eurozine.com/focal-points/youth-project/.

The Active Amputee blog's Björn Eser belives that the way we go about prosthetics should change. He's a lover of the outdoors, even more so since his amputation, but he takes an issue with the limits of social and medical support for disabled people. https://www.theactiveamputee.org/

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Clock times and social times conflict across much of Europe. Timekeeping is a deeply political matter, and João Lipinsky Nunes of Better Times takes issue with them.

This conversation is a bonus to accompany our talk show episode on timekeeping from our Standard Time production: https://www.eurozine.com/its-about-time/

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Overlapping crises, enforced political passivity and a new political normal: all things that gradually dismantle a democracy. Long standing Eurozine contributor, historian Ferenc Laczó joins editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp to discuss how a democracy can be alive and dead at the same time.

Laczó took part in the discussion about how democracies die in the Eurozine focal point ‘The writing on the wall’ with his article 'How democracies transform, fast and slow' : https://www.eurozine.com/how-democracies-transform-fast-and-slow/

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The European experience has changed in biblical proportions in the past year. A major land war in Ukraine, instances of genocide, and the continued rise of anti-democratic political movements pose more than a mere challenge. On the other hand, the introduction of AI to the general public is yet not fully understood. All of these are framed by the increasing disruptions of the climate crisis. Where to, then, for Project Europe? André Wilkens returns to the pod to identify opportunities among the threats and to announce a major new project.

A longer version of this conversation with bonus material is available to Eurozine's patrons. Support our work with as little as €5/month or more to access extra content and help sustain this publication that connects you with over 100 publications from across Europe. www.patreon.com/Eurozine

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