Hello everyone, “Europeans at Heart” is back with another season! In this season Young European Ambassadors will explore different topics from a youth perspective, together with experts and friends. The first episodes will give youth perspective to the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, while the future episodes will explore youth engagement, the EU and energy, the future of the Eastern Partnership and much more. Want to know more about us? Find more info on our website: https://euneighbourseast.eu/young-european-ambassadors/   Do you know 2022 is the European Year of Youth? Find more information & events around you here: https://europa.eu/youth/year-of-youth_en#content In this episode: Cătălina was born in 1999 in Soroca, the Republic of Moldova. Being a student at the University of Warsaw, she is currently following her master's degree in security and strategic studies, being connected with this topic by participating in different events as CyberSec Forum, Warsaw Security Forum, and as a member of the Women in International Security network. At this moment  she is activating as an Intern at the Service for the Supreme Security Council at the Presidency of the Republic of Moldova. Out of the security field, she is also very interested in the EU as a concept. This can be proved by her activity as Vice President for the Bringing Europeans Together Association in Poland, founder and Vice President for the students’ society named “My dla Europy”, and organizer of different MEU simulations. Maria Pia is the EU YEAs Coordinator. She’s been working with young people since 2016, taking part in Erasmus+ project and organising local grassroots activities. As for other activities, in 2017 she took part in the WFD of the CoE, and in 2018 she was selected as the Youth Representative for Italy in the 35th Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities. In 2019, she organized a TEDx and graduated Summa cum Laude in Business Administration at Federico II University, and then started working as a junior project manager in Spain. Currently, she is working at the University in Naples and coordinating the YEAs.