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Hello, my name is Brett Harris and I'm a contemporary European studies major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In this episode, I will be interviewing Professor Urban Strandberg from the University of Gothenburg

about his involvement

with the international youth think tank and his experiences as an educator in the transatlantic

context. Dr. Strandberg is an associate professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.

He serves as the director for master's program's double degree tracks and coordinates

Gothenburg's partnership with UNC's transatlantic master's program's double-degree tracks and coordinates Gothenburg's partnership with

UNC's transatlantic master's program. In addition, Dr. Strandberg is the manager for the

International Youth Think Tank Project. Hello, I'm Brett Harris, and today I'm joined by Urban Strandberg.

And so you are the director for master's program.

Master program double degree tracks at the University of Gothenburg, and you work with programs like the Transatlantic

Masters program at Chapel Hill, as well as with on-campus think tanks like Brandpunct

Europa and European Horizons at UNC. So I guess how does working in this transatlantic

context sort of shape, I don't know, how your research

and other projects that you're interested in?

Well, I've been working with the European Studies programs in Gothenburg for the last 10 years now,

and we have established collaborative partners overseas in China, for instance,

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