Team

Nils Land de Souza Rego

“For me as the head of PIASTA, there are always a lot of things to do—I make sure that our offers are well-organized, from registration to implementation to evaluation, and I prepare our international team for their tasks. About 20 students are working on the PIASTA Team. I find it important to encourage participation by including student perspectives. This fosters innovative ideas from students for students. I aim for our tutors and our participants to feel respected and welcomed with their diverse backgrounds, for boundaries to blur, for pigeonholing to cease, and for new perspectives to emerge.”

Nils Land de Souza Rego

“Each semester, we offer a rich program of information activities, campus and neighborhood tours, and interactive activities to help you meet people and to welcome all students to Universität Hamburg.”

Aya Muramoto

“We assign experienced welcome buddies who are interested in intercultural exchange to new students who would like support at the beginning of their studies at Universität Hamburg. Simply put, we bring people together!”

Lena Kaps
Emma Ott

“Together with our team of intercultural tutors, we organize not only a diverse program of cultural events and leisure activities during the semester but also international nights, where we focus on a new exciting topic each time. It is important to us that you have the opportunity to meet new people, get to know diverse perspectives, and network.” 

Nils Land de Souza Rego

“We offer exciting seminars in which you can learn how to give better presentations or how to think about and deal with racism critically. Whether in peer-to-peer workshops or led by experienced trainers and tutors, you are sure to learn about these topics and grow beyond yourself. An added bonus is that the 2-day diversity training courses are recognized as Component A of the Certificate Intercultural Competence (CIC).”

Marco Scariot
Aya Muramoto

“We will turn you into a language talent! Our team and our volunteer language café coordinators do everything they can to make speaking the host-country language during your next Erasmus semester child’s play. In our language cafés and language tandems, we offer as many languages as possible. Your dream of speaking French fluently or rolling your Rs in Spanish will come true sooner than you think."

Ekaterina Khromova

“We make sure that the PIASTA website is up to date and that you can register for our events in good time via UHH Join. We also engage in advertising activities and keep you up to date on everything that is happening at PIASTA through our newsletter and social media channels.”

Diversity skills

Yuliana Botero
Kristina Omelchenko
Marina Rozanova
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Key skills

Kim Doerfel

“In our seminars, we offer a variety of insights into socio-political topics such as discrimination or interculturality. We share our expertise in a lively and practice-oriented way. In addition to our focus of diversity, we will help you hone your soft skills, which will make your daily student life easier. Confident presentations and self-assured speaking need to be learned. To help you, we practice together and provide a space for your questions!”

Our tutors are the heart of PIASTA – a dedicated team of students who plan creative events, decorate the PIASTA event room, prepare snacks, and make sure everyone feels welcome!