The Audit Commission is on fire! Right after having selected their jobshadowers for this term and collecting the Activity Reports from all AEGEE antennae, the team met from the 20th until the 22nd of March in Brussels to audit the finances of AEGEE-Europe. The AEGEEan talked to the President of the Audit Commission, Arnau Robert (AEGEE-Tarragona), about the current and… Read more →
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Jovana Trajković for NetCom: “motivation and dedication are the most important for a Network Commissioner!”
24 years old, from Belgrade, student of Greek philology and an AEGEE addicted ready to support the development and cooperation among Balkan locals. The upcoming Spring Agora Asturias 2015 will host the elections for the next Network Commissioners, and Jovana Trajković will be one of the candidates. Just a few days before the Agora, The AEGEEan got to know better her… Read more →
Proposals for Dummies 5: Statutory Meetings
As the Agora Asturias 2015 is approaching at a high speed, our ‘Proposals for Dummies’ series is still ongoing! Today we are taking a look at three proposals which mainly concern Statutory Meetings, namely Agorae, European Planning Meetings and Network Meetings, and which aim at introducing some changes to the Antenna Criteria and the Working Format of the Agora. The… Read more →
Introducing Cluj-Napoca, this Year’s European Youth Capital
2015 will be the year of Cluj-Napoca, the city in the heart of Transylvania that has just become “European Youth Capital” of this year – and its AEGEE antenna will be involved in a very active way throughout this project, as Raluca Radu, President of AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca, explains. If you have been an AEGEE member for some time, you must have… Read more →
Meet The AEGEEan’s new big boss: Erika, the new Editor-in-Chief
Erika Bettin, AEGEE-Venezia, is the new Editor-in-Chief of our webzine (online magazine). Very professional, with a tough working experience in the field, she knows how to get the job done, but she also has a heart (or at least she hopes). And she has big plans for her mandate: among others, to get a permanent newsroom in the AEGEE Head-office… Read more →
ACTive Local of the Month AEGEE-Amsterdam: “Contributing to the Action Agenda is an easy way to activate members and have fun!”
In December, we elected the first ACTive Local of the Month, which was AEGEE-Heraklio for their event about the human rights situation of deaf people. This month, AEGEE-Amsterdam was elected for their contribution to the Focus Area of Spreading Europtimism with an evening about Europe under the name of ‘Me, myself and Europe’. Time to speak to them to find… Read more →
AEGEE-Oviedo gets ready for an unforgettable Agora in Asturias
The applications for Spring AgorAsturias 2015 have just been opened! In the meantime, AEGEE-Oviedo is still working very hard to make this an unforgettable Agora – according to the local organisers, they have capacities for 1,200 participants! Here is what Alberto Cuesta Noriega, main organiser of the Agora, and Gerardo García Díaz, president of AEGEE-Oviedo, told The AEGEEan on behalf… Read more →
Visa Directive proposal – the EU Council forgot the volunteers
A few days ago, the Council of the European Union published its proposal for “a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of research, studies, pupil exchange, remunerated and unremunerated training, voluntary service and au pairing”, resulting from the meeting in Brussels on the last… Read more →
The Greek elections aftermath: Great expectations, greater challenges
He has been called “the Greek Robin Hood” by many – Alexis Tsipras, the 40-year-old leader of Syriza, won the elections last Sunday in Greece and got 149 seats in the Greek Parliament, only two seats away missing for the absolute majority. Syriza has become the first radical left party to take office in the European Union – and some… Read more →
The Academy and AEGEE-Utrecht teaming up again for SES 2015!
You have been an active AEGEEan for quite some time, you have organised several events, been involved in projects, and taken up responsibility and duties inside the organisation. However, you notice something is missing. The motivational spark is starting to fade out… Do you identify yourself with these lines? If so, you better save the dates from 22nd to 28th… Read more →