For the third time AEGEE-Tilburg organised the International Champions League. The ICL is a sports event where students and refugees spend a day together by attending a football tournament and several other sports and games like badminton, table tennis, chess and others. Why? Refugees in the Netherlands all have one thing in common, which is the long wait for… Read more →
Federica Soro
Do You Feel You Can Act at the European Level?
Do you believe in Europe? Do you see problematic issues in your society and do you think you can be part of the change? If yes, the Summer University (SU) “Call Upon Young Europeans” is a perfect summer event for you. This SU takes place between the 20th and the 31st of August. It is a perfect mix between… Read more →
Education for the Present, Democracy for the Future: the Franck Biancheri Award Winning Conference in Budapest
From the 21st to the 23rd of April, AEGEE-Budapest hosted the conference “Education for the present, Democracy for the future”, which was the winner of the Franck Biancheri Award 2017. The event was organised together with Europe on Track and the Civic Education Working Group, with the support of the Association des Amis de Franck Biancheri. We talked to Álvaro González… Read more →
ACTive Local of the Month of January, AEGEE-Nijmegen: “The Strategic Plan Gives Locals a goal to Aim and the Action Agenda Gives a Path to Follow”
Last January, AEGEE-Nijmegen organised a workshop about Sign Language (Civic Education Focus Area). For this reason, they were chosen as ACTive Local of the Month of January. We spoke with Daisy Brugman, President of AEGEE-Nijmegen, to find out more! ACT: Which emotions did you have when you knew that AEGEE-Nijmegen was chosen as ACTive local of January? Daisy: We couldn’t… Read more →
EPM 2018 goes to… AEGEE-Yerevan!
It’s the closing plenary of Spring Agora Enschede 2017 and the next European Planning Meeting hosting local has been announced: it is AEGEE-Yerevan! We reached out to them and spoke to Armenak Minasyants from the Armenian local to ask them more about their reaction to the good news and some sneak peeks. The AEGEEan: Why did you apply to host European… Read more →
Spring Agora 2018 goes to… AEGEE- Kraków!
It’s the closing plenary of Spring Agora Enschede 2017 and the next Spring Agora hosting local has been announced: it is AEGEE-Kraków! We reached out to them and spoke to Magdalena Barwinek, current president of the Polish local, to ask them more about their reaction to the good news and some sneak peeks. The AEGEEan: Why did you apply to host… Read more →
PROPOSALS #3: Planning Meeting, Reimbursement Criteria, Selecting Agora Hosting Locals and Online Pre-Agora Discussion
Just like we did for the past Agorae, for Spring Agora Enschede, once again we would like to provide you with a short and easy summary of the proposals submitted for the Agora. In this third, and last round, we will be explaining you four proposals: “Including Planning Meeting in the Events, Projects and Activities”, “Changing the selection process of… Read more →
Action Agenda Coordination Committee: A Year in Review
When we were taking office last August, we knew, all the 11 of us that we were assigned to handle a ship against all odds. The Action Agenda Coordination Committee was facing a wave of suspicion and doubt among the Network, due to the lack of connectivity people felt with it or maybe due to the very nature of our… Read more →
Réka Salamon for President of AEGEE-Europe: “Question the status quo – and be the network of change-makers that AEGEE is meant to be”
Former Projects Director and current President of AEGEE-Europe Réka Salamon, from AEGEE-Aachen and AEGEE-Debrecen, is an active AEGEEan since 2011. She has covered many different areas of the association and now she is running for a second term as President of AEGEE-Europe. We reached out to her for this interview and also asked her the questions we received from the Network. The… Read more →
Fabrizio Bellicano for Member of the Comité Directeur: “Work means achieving the objectives set: why not have fun during it?”
As a professional developer, Fabrizio Bellicano from AEGEE-Genova has been very active on all IT-related aspects of AEGEE-Europe since 2014. But his commitment does not end there: he was among the organisers of EPM Zagreb and is a member of the newly revived Human Resources Committee. Now he is candidating as member of the Comité Directeur, and we interviewed him… Read more →