These are days of uncertainty. The crisis threatens to make Europe a smaller and darker place. What is the future of education in Europe? What can we do to improve it? In the Y- Vote Convention on Education, Research and Mobility organized by AEGEE-Kraków (from the 4th to the 9th of march0) some responses were given. Erasmus + The convention… Read more →
Something is in the air. A sense of unrest that seems to me has been lingering for the last year or so. We have all read about various protests and conflicts in Turkey, Ukraine, Bosnia, Venezuela, and many other places, and these events have really made me think. I will say right away that I do not consider myself an… Read more →
If we take a look around our own musical tastes, most of us will agree that there are so many songs, from traditional ones to pop musicc, that don’t reach a major audience because of the language barrier. What is more, we would find it hard to find any song related to European integration at all, or barely no European… Read more →
AEGEE and Eurovision have quite a lot in common, the main thing being a vision about united Europe. This year the connection is stronger than ever as in May during the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen one of the participants will be well known for some AEGEEans! In 2014 Latvia is represented by a special participant – Jöran Steinhauer and… Read more →
Do you believe in coincidences? Well, at least we believe it is very coincidental that we are writing this article about the Y Vote 2014 Convention on Gender Equality precisely on the 8th of March – International Women’s Day, the day chosen by the United Nations to vindicate Women’s rights across the globe. It has been a few weeks since… Read more →
You might have heard of them quite often in our Network. The Liaison Officers are the contact people of AEGEE-Europe towards different institutions and organizations. However, you might be wondering: who are they and which are the organizations they are dealing with? The Liaison Officers are introducing themselves and their work in the following article. The Liaison Officers towards the United… Read more →
This year, two beautiful cities have the honor being European Capitals of Culture, although only one of them is proud to have an AEGEE antenna. AEGEE-Rīga has been bringing Europe closer to Latvian students since 2001, while Swedish town Umeå still has potential to attract AEGEE. Who knows, maybe soon already? Having said that, there is no surprise that several AEGEE… Read more →
The Eastern Partnership Project concluded last November in Autumn Agora Zaragoza, where their results were presented. But that does not mean it is over. The latest developments in the countries of the Eastern Partnership, and especially the EaP Summit in Vilnius, have shown that there is still a lot of work to do, and so The AEGEEan has spoken to… Read more →
Peppe Colicchia, the current speaker of the Information Technology Committee, has been a member of AEGEE-Pisa for two years already, even though now he’s back in Sicily, where he comes from. From his place in “the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean”, Peppe took some time to talk to The AEGEEan about the current plans of the ITC, after coming… Read more →
A research team from the German Graduate School of Management and Law in Heilbronn, Germany, has developed a system to measure the intercultural openess of German companies, which should orientate immigrants seeking a job in the country. Rafael González García de Cosío, a former member of AEGEE-Sevilla, has been involved in the research and writes about the results. There’s always a time… Read more →
