Just like we did for the last Agorae, for Autumn Agora Kyïv we want to provide you again with a short and easy summary of the proposals submitted. In this fourth round, we will be explaining you three proposals that focus on different topics, from the selection of visitors to the number of votes for locals and LTC and RTC, namely ‘Number for votes for antennae with less than 10 members’, ‘Visitors selection procedure’ and ‘Changing the LTC as Antenna Criterion from organisation to participation’.
Currently the minimum number of members for locals is 10, but, in some occasions the Comité Directeur can grant an exception and we may find Antennae with less than 10 members. Those Antennae, when at the Agora, do not have any vote, while those with at least 10 members have one vote.
Damien Latacz and Philipp Blum on behalf of AEGEE-Aachen questioned this system and proposed ‘Number for votes for antennae with less than 10 members’. They state that any local that is an Antenna should have the right to vote, so their aim is to change the part of Article 17 that enlists the number of votes according to the number of members in a local, decreasing the number from 10 members to 1 in order to be able to vote.
You can read the full proposal here.
The second proposal is the ‘Visitors selection procedure’ by Damien Latacz and Philipp Blum on behalf of AEGEE-Aachen and Lucia Gavulová on behalf of AEGEE-Bratislava. In the past few years the Visitors selection procedure raised some eyebrows. In fact, at Autumn Agora Zagaroza 2013 a proposal was approved to add board comments and to invite the Chair Team and the Comité Directeur to follow the ranking decided by locals. Since then, visitors were selected based on the capacity of the facilities, the motivation letter and, then, the ranking. The proposers think that the mechanism is still not clear and the ranking in the system should be taken more into account since normally locals have a larger and better view of applicants. The change to the Working format of the Agora will affect the selection in the sense that the Chair Team will need to follow the ranking provided by locals, with the due exceptions. Moreover, exceptions need to be explained upon request and the Chair Team has to present a short report about them (without any indication of sensitive data of the applicants).
You can read the full proposal here.
During Spring Agora Asturias, we approved a new criterion for locals: organise a LTC yearly, bringing criteria from 10 to 11. Already during the discussion in the prytanium, it was suggested to change the word ‘organise’ into ‘attend’, due to the fact that not all the locals might have the capacity to organise a LTC each year. Damien Latacz and Philipp Blum on behalf of AEGEE-Aachen are bringing up again this topic with the proposal ‘Changing the LTC as Antenna Criterion from organisation to participation’. To be validated as criterion, a LTC must be attended by at least the 50% of members who joined the local between 3 and 15 months prior the criterion is checked.
The proposal also changes who approves the LTC, that can be the Network Commission or an Ordinary member of AEGEE-Europe approved by the Comité Directeur.
You can read the full proposal here.
Written by Erika Bettin, AEGEE-Verona