Evelina Savickaitė
Intrigued by human behaviour, emotions and thinking, after having returned from the round-the-world journey, feels that she wants to give at least something back to the society and use her education of Psychology and Art psychotherapy working in Oxfordshire Mind with people who have mental health issues and volunteering as an art therapist with homeless people at Oxford Homeless Medical Fund.
Karolis Kazlauskis
Passionate about ecology and nature, after having returned from the journey Karolis is eager to spend his energy to help the nature. Hence, he uses his education in computer engineering and electronic engineering employed as a research associate in Centre for Ecology and Hydrology where he creates modern ways to collect data.
Evelina and Karolis have published the book in Lithuanian "Iter Vitae or journey of life around the world" (Alma Littera) after having spent 1.5 years hitch-hiking across the globe (6 continents, 72000 km, 720 different vehicles).
At TEDxMRU stage, Evelina and Karolis are going to share the moments of the life changing hitch - hiking trip across the world.