This year every member of AEGEE can choose from lots of New Year’s Events to spend the last days of 2016 with some European friends outside their native city. Many Antennae are planning a NYE such as: Utrecht, Maribor, Zagreb, Skopje, Naples. In this article we will provide you more information about some of these events. This is part 3. For part 1, click here, and, for part 2, click here.
AEGEE-Bergamo, ‘Improve your skills’
This event, from the 28th of December until the 2nd of January, will be mostly about skiing, and one, apparently supervised, snowball fight. The entire event will take place in the Italian Alps, and might be the best NYE to learn how to ski, and other ski-related issues.
You can find more info here, and you can apply for the event, by filling in the intranet form, here, and by filling in the Google form, here.
AEGEE-Kraków, ‘Royal Birthday & Highlander’
AEGEE-Kraków also seems to capitalise on the folkoric and cultural aspect of their country. However, there are three important aspects, that make this local stand out: (1) there can be up to one hundred participants attending this event, (2) the event coincides with AEGEE-Kraków’s twenty-fifth birthday, and (3) each participating member of AEGEE can also sign up one friend, who is not a member, to join in the festivities.
You can find more info here, and you can apply for the event, by filling in the Google form, here.
AEGEE-Moskva and AEGEE-Kyïv, ‘Capital Cities #3’
This New Year’s Event is already the third instalment of this transnational celebration, during which the participants will visit both Moscow and Kiev to celebrate, what they call, a “true USSR NY celebration”. A lot of the programme consists of the classic activities, such as city tours, winter games, and cooking workshops, but the event sticks out from other NYEs by offering its participants activities such as the visit to a sauna and to do some fortune telling.
You can find more info here, and you can apply for the event by applying via the intranet and by filling in this Google form.
AEGEE-Samara, ‘Snow Russian Cocktail’
Marketed as a “Winter University”, AEGEE-Samara is going to host a New Year’s event for fifteen participants between the 30th of December and the 7th of January. The most important goal of this “WU”, reportedly, is to let the participants discover the Russian spirit, and many activities are planned to do so; one of which is horseback riding.
You can find more info here, and you can apply for the event, by filling in the Google form, here.
AEGEE-Thessaloniki e.a., ‘Our Big Fat Greek Winter University’
The final NYE on our list is another one marketed as a “Winter University”. For this event, all Antennae in Greece, that is to say AEGEE-Thessaloniki, AEGEE-Ioannina, AEGEE-Athina, AEGEE-Patra, AEGEE-Kastoria, and AEGEE-Peiraias, have banded together to organise one big event in six cities on the course of just thirteen days. The participants will visit a lot of places and sights that are significant to the Greek culture, however, only thirty people can apply.
You can find more info here, and you can apply for the event by applying via the intranet and by filling in this Google form.
Written by Willem Laurentzen, AEGEE-Nijmegen