My name is Luiza Sartori Costa. I’m from Brazil and I’m a first year student of the master in Human Rights and Multi-Level Governance. Here I share a piece of my academic journey at UNIPD. I have always looked for extracurricular activities, mainly because I strongly believe that the mandatory courses and tasks offered by universities will never be enough to build up a rich professional and academic background, especially in a field like human rights. Because job positions (i

I am Simona, a 24-year-old girl born in Trieste and raised in a small village overlooking the sea in Puglia. Because of my studies, I moved to the university of Forlì first and Padova later. In 2016 I started my Bachelor’s in International Relations and Diplomatic Affairs, fully convinced that one day diplomacy would have become my bread and butter. So why a Master in Human Rights now? It was a lecture about Western Sahara and Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria which suddenly

I never wanted to become a journalist. I was studying for six years in the domain of international relations and politics in the leading national international relations university and was heading towards working in an embassy of my country abroad. I ended up as an executive editor in the international department of the biggest national media company, with the salary five times bigger than the one offered in diplomatic service and way higher level of responsibility and stress