"Excel Winter School offers the students across EU an opportunity to develop their critical thinking trough working on a task, that does not relate to them directly. This was extremely effective, because along the way you find yourself searching through numerous documents and discussing different topics that are probably not in your academic life with students from different countries. The main take for you besides the satisfaction of having your work appreciated by the people, who have helped you along the way are the numerous experiences with all participants and organizers who were with you along the journey and the knowledge you have gathered about the culture and environment you have been put into."