Episode 7: Work at Cedefop and life in Thessaloniki
Skillset and match
Cedefop
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🗓️ 22 July 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Three generations of Cedefop people share their experience of living in Thessaloniki, an ancient city with more than 2,000 years of uninterrupted urban history, and working at the oldest European Union decentralised agency. Lore Schmid, Sorhna-Paule Perrot and Thomas Mellios all agree that anyone with an opportunity to live that experience should go for it!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to SETEFOB skill set-set and match podcast. |
| 0:12.2 | Ampanos Polizoides. |
| 0:14.1 | What's it like living in Thessaloniki, this ancient cosmopolies? |
| 0:18.3 | How is working at the European Union institution, particularly a decentralized |
| 0:22.4 | agency? What are the challenges, positive and negative, one comes up against? Does it feel more like |
| 0:29.0 | working at a research center or a policy think tank, or both? One could say that this podcast |
| 0:35.5 | is a little inward looking, a bit like looking at yourself in the mirror. |
| 0:39.7 | We're presenting some of our own people, SETAFOP employees, and discuss with them their experience here, |
| 0:45.9 | live at SETAFOP, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, based in Thessaloniki, Greece. |
| 0:53.3 | So I'm welcoming to our studio, Sna Paul Perrault and Thomas Melios. |
| 0:58.3 | We're also joined by Laura Schmidt remotely. |
| 1:02.1 | You'll see why in a moment. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome and thank you for joining us. |
| 1:05.6 | Hi, thank you. |
| 1:07.2 | Hello. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello, from Austria. |
| 1:17.3 | Okay, this gave it away. Hello. Hello from Austria. Okay, this gave it away. Why are you in Austria? Tell us. |
| 1:24.3 | I'm in Austria because I recently retired from Sedephop. How many years? Well, actually I had two spells at Settipov. One is a seconded national expert of three and a half years and the last |
| 1:30.3 | 17 years I had the opportunity to work as a proper employee if you allow me to say so. So half a lifetime at Sedephob. |
| 1:40.8 | Exactly. Okay, we're going one generation down now and talking to Thomas Mellios, |
| 1:46.2 | who's been how many years at SEDAFOP? Well, I've been here since 2004, so it's more or less |
| 1:53.6 | 18 years. And what do you do here? Now I work for the ICT service since 2004 as an external contractor and since 2006 as a |
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