Good evening, Osnar Ascurinaga is speaking to you from Bolivia, from the sacred mountains of the Andes, the Apus Achachilas. We talked enough about the negative aspects and this seems like a chance to talk about the positive outcome. Well, firs

(ENG) Mario proposes online psychotherapy

Jun 3rd, 2020 3m 32s

So, my contribution to your questionnaire with regards to the changes or opportunities that this COVID-19 can offer for myself and for my community. So, for myself, I am starting to now settle, and I think I will finally have time to be with my

(IT) Vincenza (35) is reorganising her social housing project

Jun 3rd, 2020 5m 32s

Hello, everyone, here we are again, this time I will contact you with a message in Italian. So thank you once again for this opportunity and the question what are the positive aspects that this coronavirus is bringing to our lives on a personal

(PL) Asia sees the needs of the weakest being forgotten in the pandemic

Jun 3rd, 2020 3m 42s

I am rather pessimistic and have little trust in the possibility of changing our economic system, which imposed its principles also on our private lives. When the pandemic has begun many people around me started to see in it a chance for humans

(FR) Flora (8) and her mom are buying local food

Jun 3rd, 2020 1m 29s

Hi, my name is Flora, I'm 9 years old and I'm doing this message with my mom. The good things right now are family games and quizzes during confinement, which is actually a preventive measure to avoid the spread of the virus while waiting to ha

(ENG) Maria gained a new perspective on her life

Jun 3rd, 2020 1m 24s

I am Maria from Brazil, living in Sweden. What positive things did Corona bring to me? It is tricky to say because a lot of people are suffering and you kind of feel guilty about feeling grateful in a situation where a lot of people are feeling

(GER) Maria strives for trust and solidarity after the crisis

Jun 1st, 2020 2m

My name is Maria, I am 28 and I work as a language teacher in Berlin. I see many things in these times that can positively influence our society. I think, for example, that we normally live in a very routinised world, getting up, going to work

(EN) Rissa sees the bigger picture

Jun 1st, 2020 2m 16s

Ok about the Coronavirus...What is the positive thing that this virus or this Pandemic created is that you get to slow down. You get to just stay at home realise what are those things that you deprive yourself from doing if you are a very busy

(EN) Aida sees an opportunity to localise development

Jun 1st, 2020 3m 31s

Hi! My name is Aida, and I am originally from Colombia. Right now I am doing an internship at the United Nations Organisation in Copenhagen, Denmark. Personally I think that the Coronavirus is giving us an opportunity, in my field, the aid indu

(ES) Gabriela encourages to reassess oneself

Jun 1st, 2020 2m 2s

My name is Gabriela, I'm from Chile, I was living a little more than a year in Portugal, and in January, February, I moved to Germany, on a working holiday. I went back to Chile to leave my things and to see my family two months to later go bac

(GER) M, from Germany gets to know her friends anew

May 29th, 2020 2m

I am 64 years old, retired and live in Hildesheim. I have always been outdoors a lot and now I meet many more parents with their children there. This is certainly also due to the increased time they spend together. I find it a very positive asp

(PT) Rita (30) from Portugal, treasures growth with her daughter

May 29th, 2020 1m 55s

Hi, I'm Rita, I'm 30 years old from Portugal. I've been in quarantine for 54 days. Today in Portugal is Mother's Day the 3rd of May. And maybe motherhood has been one of the fundamental aspects, of the few positives, in this COVID-19 pandemic.

(EN) Emily from Canada, takes a chance to slow-down fast-paced life

May 29th, 2020 59s

Hey everyone my name is Emily. I live in Toronto I have been social distancing for about a month now. As I think many other people have. I see COVID-19 as an opportunity in many ways. First, for those who live a very fast-paced life I think the

(IT) Elisa from Italy, uncovers beauty in unexpected corners

May 29th, 2020 3m 16s

Hello everyone! My name is Elisa, and in the past days I set my attention on a term that I would like to elaborate on to answer the question about the opportunities that we could draw for our future. The term is "anti-fragile". "Anti-fragile" i

(IT) Alice (23) observes dolphins in Venice

May 27th, 2020 1m 21s

I think the positive thing in all of this situation is that there are news of animals taking over the cities and just watching nature taking the space that we took away from it. I think it is a very good moment to realise how small changes in o

(ES) Asia on the importance of local food production

May 27th, 2020 2m 43s

I am quite a pessimistic person, and I have not believed in the possibility of change in the socio-economic system in which we live for a long time and when the pandemic started and many people saw in it an opportunity for this change, I saw it

(FR) Sinda (33) encourages you for a change of path

May 27th, 2020 1m 55s

I'm Sinda, I live in Paris and I'm almost 34 years old. I am living in Paris and have been in confinement for more than six weeks now due to Covid-19. Today I am drawing negative but also positive points from this situation. The negative points

(PT) João (28) does not want to waste time anymore.

May 27th, 2020 2m 19s

Every crisis has something positive in itself because it forces us to ask questions that we probably did not ask before. And only by formulating new questions we can obtain new answers and grow as citizens, as a world, as human beings. So this

(IT) For Marco an opportunity to stop, reflect and change

May 25th, 2020 3m 57s

Hello everyone! I'm Marco, from Rome. And I also wanted to share my experience and my impressions on this quarantine life that we are all facing and I will try to give a maybe different and positive perspective, because it is the only way in wh

(PT) Marta (25) from Portugal on reinvention

May 25th, 2020 1m 27s

Hello, my name is Marta I am 25 years old and I think that the COVID-19 crisis can and should be seen as an opportunity to reinvent ourselves, at a personal level but also at a professional level. I think this mandatory break in our daily lives

(ENG) Wanda in the U.S. misses the hustle and bustle

May 25th, 2020 2m 6s

Hello, my people! My name is Wanda I'm 38. I live in New York City, near midtown Manhattan. Right now New York City feels like it is winter. Every day I have a sense of nostalgia. I miss the city's hustle and bustle. People watching, food, expl

(FR) Claire (25) sees a circle of solidarity

May 25th, 2020 2m 13s

I see many positive aspects in the current corona crisis. One of them is that you can refocus on yourself and on the activities that you really like to do and that you don't necessarily have the time to do in everyday life. Because we work, bec

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Welcome to season 2!

May 22nd, 2020 59s

Welcome to season two of the Participatory Podcast Project! This time we asked our friends around the world if they could see anything positive stemming from this moment. If there was any opportunity they could create or an opportunity that was

(ENG) Marc (56) from Italy enjoys working at his pace

Apr 18th, 2020 57s

Hello, I'm Marc, I'm living in Rome, I'm 56 years old. So my experience of Covid so far has been positive in the sense that I've avoided commuting and getting stressed by the trafic jams, this is very positive. Another positive point is that I

(ESP) Maite in Belgium on homeless people as an especially vulnerable group

Apr 18th, 2020 1m 40s

How has this been affecting me and how am I coping? Well, the first two weeks of quarantine I was truly quarantined and forced to work from home. To avoid being locked up in the city, I went to the outskirts which allowed me to spend more time