My Journey - Tiago Cunha Martins

My story

For quite sometime, I suffered from an external pressure. While feeling as a person with many different interests, the work colleagues, friends or society at large sets expectations for one’s profession, academic knowledge and specializing in a specific topic. I was living in duality until one night; surfing on YouTube, I came across a TED talk of a 30-ish girl basically saying what happened to her, very similar to my path.… we are MULTIPOTENTIALITEs, an individual that will only find happiness and in peace if have the opportunity to pursue its different interests, even if that means to have no such a thing as a linear “career”. After had lived different versions of myself, experimenting different activities: a day job, but also engaging a lot in the NGO and non-profit world, music, sports and traveling. Eventually, I’ve come to a conclusion: the common denominator of all of this was a tremendous curiosity and the eager to work in international and diverse working groups. The curiosity to know and explore the world led me to interesting experiences I’d like now to share with you, along with my CV and my opinions on my two passions: European Affairs and United Nations’ Sustainable Development Agenda.

Life Timeline

1989 Born

In the late 1990’s the world was undergoing major shifts. The Soviet Union was about to collapse and Maria and José, a young working class couple from Viana do Castelo, a small surf northern city of Portugal, half way between Porto and the border with Spain (Galicia region), has decided to commit to

In 1996, perhaps propelled by the eager to explore the nature, climb trees, swim in the river and hiking in Viana’s mountains, my brother and I entered Escoteiros de Portugal (Boys’ Scouts). There I’ve learn useful values to my future: respect the nature, care about others and the importance of

Music had already been an important part of my life, and in my first teenage years I couldn’t wait anymore to star learning my favorite instrument, Drums. Whenever I’ve seen a live concert or on the TV I was amazed with the capabilities of the drums… it looked so cool!.

Started to study Economics at Oporto Global University and at the same time engaging in Porto City’s Business ecosystem. Engaging as much as possible in Academic community, along side with my brother, Along the way, I’ve engaged in many extracurricular activities, namely in sports and cultural. I’ve started to play

2014 – 2015: VianaLive | Event Solutions Startup Perhaps because it was the year with my lucky number, in 2014 I’ve finally decided to create my own business. Looking back to which were my biggest skills and there was one standing out from the rest: event organization. After search for

2015: Erasmus+ Journey Pushed by an old eager to explore the world and the fact I couldn’t go on a Erasmus+ university mobility, which delayed my great curiosity to know more about Italy, I’ve started an quite interesting cultural journey.. Erasmus Youth Exchanges.. it all begun in the sunny and

2012: Founder of Portuguese Young Socialists @ Viana do Castelo Triggered by the eager to do more and help young qualified professionals that wanted to return back to the region after their studies, as it was my case, to overcame a harsh reality. Portugal was under an Assistance bailout program,

Exploring Digital Technologies in Budapest, Hungary. I was already thinking on taking some time off from European Union & Public Affairs to explore in more depth the Information Technology industry. After considering options, I’ve decided for a job in the Central Eastern Europe, because I was also looking for new

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