Who are the Events Committee (EVC) and what do they do? Look no further, the answers to these questions are right here:
As AEGEEans we strive for many things – European integration, peace and stability, making education better for young people and many more. We tend to externalise all of these things in many ways, but one of the most widely used tools are events, which bring together people not only from the local sphere, but also from Europe and beyond. In the beginning of AEGEE one had a decent grasp on how many various events were organised and to which extent of quality, but as time progressed, with the growth of our association this had become a bit vague and not really orderly. Because of this AEGEE started producing events just for leisure purposes and with it forgetting its important mission.
Changes to be done
Comité Directeur realised this fact during the term of 2010/2011, after which three people were recruited to bring the change, to recreate the aim AEGEE had lost in the past, and to ensure that AEGEE as an association would be using one of its most important tools in a coherent way.
Increasing the quality of events
As for many new beginnings, the development of the Events Committee was difficult at times, because it was enforcing a new way of managing things, but despite this, it is visible that after six months of work, events are becoming more rich with content and organisers are using more effort in the preparation stage.
Nowadays, the Committee has implemented several changes in its work in order to try and make the approval process as simple and smooth as possible: there is a prepared application form for would-be organisers, which can be downloaded and filled out before contacting the Committee, and instead of discussing the applications at meetings, it has been decided to have one member in charge of reviewing them and answering the submitters.
New blog on the way
In the nearest future the EVC will launch their own blog which will aim to encourage all the locals to share their success and upload the template of their successful events to the database. In such way the committee will help young locals to gain ideas from more experienced locals on what kind of events can be organised and how to properly structure the programme.
Apart from this, on the website, the Events Newsletter will be revived. Short articles from events which took place within previous month will be published there. Also, there will be a short overview of events taking place within next month and events for which the application deadlines are within the following two or three weeks.
Basically, the EVC will try to make their website as informative as possible in order to improve the communication flow between the Committee and the Network.
Written by Alla Resheten, AEGEE-Kyiv, and Marit Veeber, AEGEE-Tartu
The above published photo of the NWM in Tübingen last year was one of the first events when the new concept of event quality and the idea to create the Event Committee was introduced to the Network.