Welcome to this special edition of SEDAFOPS KERALSET & Match podcast from the Frida Yapa screening room in the port of Thessaloniki.

This is where the heart of the 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival beats,

and where we'll discuss young people's skilling and career prospects

in the current fast-evolving education and labor market environment.

The room is full of young learners, eager to hear what our guests have to say.

With me to look for answers as SEDAFOP executive director, Juergen Zibel, next to me.

Jordana Gasparino from Portugal, who studies filmmaking and is one of this year's winners of

the SEDAFOP Video Award,

the director of her vocational school, Nuno Ribeiro,

Sedef op expert, Anastasia Puyu,

and the director of the second vocational school of Thessaloniki, DIPA, Angeliqi Philippi.

Let me start with Jordana as you and your teammates just received the award for your video, which presented the story of a young woman who left school at 18 and went back six years later

to follow her passion and become a filmmaker.

This is your story, Jordana.

So tell us why you didn't continue your studies in the first place and what inspired you to go back.

Hi everyone. It's a pleasure to be here.

So I didn't continue my studies because first and foremost, I think we should be doing things in our life with a meaning.

When I finished studies, I did not have a meaning and I felt a bit lost.

And I think a lot of people my age are here today feel that as well.

You're not alone.

So after six years I thought what does it make me happy every day and filming and taking pictures

and doing these sort of things is what makes me happy.

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