VFN Member Blog

1. What is your role at VFN? What do you do specifically? I’m the VFN Baby Groups Coordinators’ Liaison, which means I’m the first point of contact for all baby group coordinators, including recruiting them, opening the groups, and acting as the link between them and the Steering Committee, which …

1. What is your role at VFN? What do you do specifically? I am currently part of the social, district and language groups liaisons team and I focus on the district groups. I am, as well, representing this team within the VFN steering committee. 2. What inspired you to start …

1. What is your role at VFN? What do you do specifically? I am currently the president of the VFN. 2. What inspired you to start volunteering at VFN? What have you learned/gained personally from this experience? I joined the VFN as soon as I found out I was pregnant, …

VFN Volunteer: Maria Giovanna, Treasurer (Dec 2024-Nov 2025) The Vienna Family Network (VFN) first caught Maria’s attention while she was walking through London, listening to a podcast. With a move to Vienna planned for 2022, she was already thinking ahead about ways to build community and settle into her new …

If the first months or years abroad shake the foundations of who you are, the next phase often brings a quieter question: How do I live meaningfully here?

This blog post is split into two parts and discusses the emotional and psychological disorientation that many expats and internationals experience after moving abroad. This is part of an identity transition – a process of rediscovering who you are becoming between cultures. Part One: Living Abroad and Identity By Kathrin …

Within months of Ivana Vujosevic and her family moving to Vienna from Belgrade, Serbia in 2012, she had learned about the Vienna Family Network and its new moms group, which brings together women with upcoming due dates.

If you’re a parent living in Vienna and haven’t been to at least one Vienna Family Network flea market, you’re missing out! It’s a bi-annual event where VFN members can sell gently-used toys, books, clothing, equipment and much more for pregnancy, babies and kids. VFN member businesses are also present …

We all know communication in relationships can be…er…complicated. And cross-cultural relationships come with some unique “toppings” on the old relationship pizza. With language barriers, cultural differences, and logistical challenges such as, “your continent or mine,” it’s a wonder any cross-cultural relationships get past the (often long distance) dating phase. However, …

In multi-national cities like Vienna, we find ourselves on this adventure called life, alongside people of different cultural, linguistic, and ideological backgrounds. And this makes the adventure both trickier and more enriching at the same time.