“Being an immigrant is not always everything great, you have of course challenges. The main thing to consider is to have your motivation clear: why you are coming here, what you would like to do later on. Secondly, if you want to get involved with locals, join voluntary associations: you can meet people and do something for the city. It gives you a different approach to living here. I want to finish successfully my master and then work here in a company which might have clients or partners in Latin America, to combine these two regions in my future career.

While I studied in Voralberg, I had to commute a lot and met the local people. Austria has a beautiful landscape, it reminds me of Peru. The Alps are very high and it is amazing for me to see how the country shapes itself around the mountains”

Pedro from Peru moved to Austria in 2012 because he finally found a master study which fit his expectations, in Voralberg