>November/December is all about the fame and money while these Brussels based youngsters work on the general subvention, go to cool conferences and receptions to network with celebrities and make an attempt to close some deals with the private sector. It already came up on AEGEE-L so just to assure you: things are happening.
This week AEGEE-Europe got a brand new Golden Partner: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. The partnership will assure a nice spotlight for the Graduate School in 2009, and I myself have already fallen for their charm and started checking out their Master programmes as yes, there is a life after the CD.
We launched our brand new Career Platform to which 250 members already signed up and nobody less than Google will be one of the first to try it out from 1 January on. So don’t miss it, you could be the next Larry Page or Sergey Brin.
Also TOMER is in line for partnering up with AEGEE. As we all love multilingualism. Some other linguistic institutions are still pending, Ilona is chasing them through e-mails and phonecalls. Teamwork is everything.
Which was also proven some days ago when Percin and I went to the Turkish Chamber of Commerce to charm them with the Sustaining our Future project which proved once again to be an excellent private funding magnet. A 3-zero figure sponsorship of the Think Tank made me and Percin jump and scream once we stepped outside back on the street, after a meeting that in advance I feared the most but then turned out to be the easiest fundraising meeting I have had so far.
Life is stressful yet exciting at Rue Nestor de Tiere 15. Emotions go wild when money is involved, but there is nothing better than the adrenaline after a deal gone good or a grant granted.