Andra Toma is candidating for Network Commision again! You, AEGEEans had some questions for her. Here you can read the answers to these questions.
After one full year of being in the Network Commission, what will be your input if you get elected?
If I get re-elected my programme will include the following:
a) Sub-commissioners! Because there has to be continuity, without it we are nothing.
b) Supporting and helping antennae from my Focus Area
c) Evolving the cooperation between different bodies of AEGEE and local antennae:
-Encouraging members from my locals to be more active on the European Level,
-Mediating the cooperation during local projects and trainings.
d) Strengthen the cooperation between AEGEE and Youth Councils.
e) Improving the cooperation of locals in terms of fundraising through a common strategy.
f) Working on the visibility of AEGEE outside our organisation
As for the input we will have to wait and see after the Agora.
Why are you recandidating?
One of the main reasons is continuity. For me it was very hard without a proper 
Knowledge Transfer (KT) to do everything. Of course I am lucky enough to be part of an amazing and helpful team but there are so many things that I had to figure out on my own that could have been avoided if I had that KT. Another reason is because I hate the idea of getting up and just leaving. At that moment I felt that all my work would have been for nothing if there wasn’t someone to leave it to. A finale reason is that it is sort of a challenge for me because I know I can do more and better.
Are there things you would do differently, if you get elected for a next term?
Yes and no! As mentioned in my programme there are some things like the subcommies part and the regional cooperation that I think would benefit everyone and hopefully everyone will make an effort in making it happen. I am a very rules and regulations kind of person but I have bent some because I really wanted everything to work out to the best possible scenario, this time around
that will not be happening again. I don’t believe that telling people 12 times the same thing helps, I believe that if they don’t get it from the second time around, you should either change the audience or the way of expression.
Yes, it’s excellent to explain and re-tell things over again however, we are only human and we have limits and people forget that we aren’t just their NetCom and we don’t have just their local but we are also individuals with a life separate from AEGEE.
Basically, less babysitting, more doing. If I am re-elected it’s going to be a SHOW and TELL year for me.
Do you have any new/fresh ideas for your new term?
I definitely want the region-collaboration thing up and running. There is a lot of potential and all the right people in all the right places in this moment and it’s an opportunity that shouldn’t be missed! Secondly, awareness of all the resources that AEGEE has to offer, I feel like the window is there but nobody knows how to get to it; the idea that we had at the internal meeting in Agora Rhein-Neckar for individual groups on certain departments will be implemented the first week along with the Network Meeting (NWM) and the importance of the Regional Training Courses (RTC’s). And last as I said before: Continuity, for without it we are doomed!
Written by Lia Tuska, AEGEE-Kastoria