Grįžti
Gerda Kalpokaitė
2014/15

Gerda Kalpokaitė

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Education:

  • Bachelor of Advertising Management (Vilnius College, Lithuania)
  • Exchange: University of Nicosia, Cyprus
  • Master of International Business, Language and Culture, specialization in Marketing and Communication (University of Southern Denmark)

Motivation

After finishing school and having a bit more freedom, I dove into the wide world. I felt that travelling wasn’t enough for me, so I combined it with my studies. I studied in Cyprus, then I went to Denmark, I spent my holidays with a heavy backpack on my shoulders, and it seemed that the further I went, the more I wanted to return to Lithuania.

Now I have no doubt that it was during these trips and studies abroad that I got to know Lithuania better – I learnt to appreciate what I hadn’t noticed before, and I learnt to look at the shortcomings through the prism of “how to fix it”. The decision to come back and stop being distracted was not a difficult one, mainly because it gave me the opportunity to use my international experience and the motivation that flows through the borders to contribute to the improvement of Lithuania with the Kurk Lietuvai programme.