Planning, execution, teamwork, words like this were imaginable to me only inside spaces like my class projects or games. The IVAC Virtual Exchange Programme came as a package full of all the terms like teamwork, understanding and goals. Running approximately 4.30 hours ahead of my German teammates I realized during the Project Week that, everything is doable with seer conviction. My overseas teammates, though still strangers, helped me gain a little bit of more determination, self-belief, new perspectives and surely I leveled up. I’m grateful for the experience and thank Assam Don Bosco University and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences for the initiative.

The IVAC project brought me a lot of new impressions that I gladly took with me as a life experience. I’ve been a passionate DJ for over 25 years and live music all day. In my work as a social worker in a youth center with a focus on media, I have a lot of experience with music, video productions and various projects. In private, too, everything revolves around music. What has always appealed to me was a production with artists from parts of the world who are far apart from my location. With this project I fulfilled a wish that I had had for a long time. What I really liked were the hurdles we had to overcome. I work best under pressure. It was a chal-lenge for me and was very grateful for the work of my colleagues without whom the project would never have existed in this form. Due to the limited time that was set for the project, I am glad that I had very competent team members at my side who made up for my deficits. I am not used to submitting work. But with this project I learned to withdraw, to accept help and to get involved where it was needed. That was an experience and a gain in competence. I am very happy to have participated in the IVAC project. The cultural exchange with our Indian partners is also a broadening of my horizons. Above all, in this exchange I learned that on the other side of the globe, people have to overcome the same hurdles as we do. I am very proud that the song was created entirely from my own production. Every single accord is played with real instru-ments. I also had a lot of fun measuring and bringing the various tracks together. I can’t play any instruments myself. So I’m all the more impressed by the musical skills and lyrics. In the end, I was able to get involved spontaneously with the video, which was not planned to this extent. I would like to thank everyone involved for the great cooperation that contributed to the realization of this project, as well as our teaching staff who made it possible at all.