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Career Service

Career Service

The ATHENA Career Service offers seminars, workshops, trainings, individual career advice, and coaching to help finding one’s way in the world of work. We support students in developing their individual career goals and matching their skills to the market’s needs. Subjects of our seminars and trainings are e.g., techniques to write a convincing CV, strategies for a successful job search, and practical training to be well prepared for the job interview. We also organise presentations with professionals from various industries to give students insights into different fields of work.

In November, we provide you with a month full of opportunities to kickstart your professional career. The ATHENA Career Days help you to find your individual way in the world of work. Learn about the job markets of the ATHENA cities’ regions in three online panel discussions and attend our virtual ATHENA Career Fair to get in touch with international companies from the fields of IT and engineering. Register here for all four events.

You can get to know the participants in the panel discussions by clicking through the gallery below.

Our panellists:

  • Wiktoria Herun (Division of Academic Promotion, Lublin Municipal Office)
  • Innocent Novart (Student, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)
  • Stefanie Aha (SieguVer, University of Siegen)
  • Dilmurod Nasibullaev (Student, University of Siegen)
  • Milena Seržantė (Center for Strategic Partnership, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)
  • Adomas & Danielius Bernotas (Students, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University)

Moderated by Eithne Knappitsch (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences)

Our panellists:

  • Nicolas François & Thiago Pinheiro da Silva (APEC Centre-Val de Loire)
  • Anne-Cécile Baptiste Giuliana (PhD student, University of Orléans)
  • Joana Seixo (Business Unit Cluster Management, Eurofins)
  • Carlos Santos (Student, Polytechnic Institute of Porto)
  • Maruxa Álvarez (Employment and Entrepreneurship Unit, University of Vigo)
  • Adrián Lugilde (PhD student, University of Vigo)

Moderated by Marcellus Menke (University of Siegen)

Career Counselling

You want to learn about employment opportunities in Portugal or Greece? You want to apply for an internship in Paris but don’t know what a French CV looks like? Our international Career Service team is there to help you!

We provide students with individual career counselling and job advice, always following new technological trends and the latest labour market developments. Make an (online) appointment with one of our team members below and get ready for your international career.

George Liodakis

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Lecturer at Department of Electronic Engineering

Florian Chassinat

University of Orléans, France

Professional integration and internship manager

Konstantinos Petridis

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Vice-Rector of Internationalisation and Extroversion

Marcellus Menke

University of Siegen, Germany

Head of Career Service

Małgorzata Czarnomska

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland

Competence Development Center UMCS

Maruxa Álvarez

University of Vigo, Spain

Director of the Employment and Entrepreneurship

Matej Kosi Hederih

University of Maribor, Slovenia

Head of Career Centre

Birgit Marktl

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Head of CUAS Business & Career Service

George Liodakis

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Lecturer at Department of Electronic Engineering

Konstantinos Petridis

Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece

Vice-Rector of Internationalisation and Extroversion

Małgorzata Czarnomska

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland

Competence Development Center UMCS

Mónica Barbosa

Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal

Psychological and Career Services

Matej Kosi Hederih

University of Maribor, Slovenia

Head of Career Centre

Florian Chassinat

University of Orléans, France

Professional Integration and Internship Manager

Marcellus Menke

University of Siegen, Germany

Head of Career Service

Maruxa Álvarez

University of Vigo, Spain

Head of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Unit

Eglė Dabulevičiūtė

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Career Specialist at the Strategic Partnership Centre

Birgit Marktl

Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Head of CUAS Business & Career Service

ATHENA Career Talks

We are happy to announce the first edition of the ATHENA Career Talks! Each Monday and Wednesday at 5 pm CET, renowned experts from industry, academia, and other European institutions reveal the soft skills that are in high demand on the international labour market. The talks include topics such as:

  • Employability Skills & You
  • Career in the new Employment World
  • Career Management: Getting to the top

A detailed programme with all topics and speakers is available on the website of the ATHENA Soft & Research Skills Academy. To join the talks, please sign up via the registration link.

The ATHENA Career talks are organised as a part of the International Week 2023 in Chania, Greece. Yet, it is also possible to follow the talks without participating in the International Week in person.

Past events


The first ATHENA Career Event took place on 19 October 2022 from 9 to 11.45 am CEST. Students and PhD-students from IT and engineering had the opportunity to get in touch with companies and networking institutions linked to the labour market in the ATHENA partners’ countries. The following companies and institutions participated in the ATHENA Career Event 2022: