Come with me for a few minutes and learn about an awesome AEGEE project! The EuroArabs on the move I went to the Comite Directeur (CD) house at the end of July for a few days with Sandra Oborska and Morgana Hoarau from AEGEE-Kraków. We dedicated three full days working on the EuroArab project with the help of Gizem Karsli… Read more →
Stephanie Müller
Secret Travels and Smuggling
AEGEE- Utrecht has its very own local event committee: MestadCie (which translates to something like ‘my own little city’), which regularly organises local events that are not only fun, but also often have a deeper meaning behind them. Maartje Natrop, President of the Mestadcie: “In this way, we keep members of our antenna entertained but also inform them about… Read more →
Show me the money!
I have a dream. A dream of AEGEE where money is not a problem. AEGEE where we have soup AND dessert at the statutory events (and ideally no participation fee). AEGEE where when AEGEE-Europe Headoffice (CD House) is very cold because the windows are broken, we say “No problem, we fix it “. AEGEE where we can reimburse our hard… Read more →
A New Rainbow over the Rainbow
It’s nine months already that I’m walking down the streets of the Rainbow. No I’m not daydreaming neither I’m under drug effect. I’m talking about the roads that connect the Italian speaking locals. These roads have always been tough, tortuous and full of obstacles; the Network Commissioners’ (NetCommies) work here has not always been a piece of cake. Hard work… Read more →
Rio+20: The Future We Dread!
During the last days of June 2012, the United Nations Sustainable Development Conference was organised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the participation of all the United Nations member states. The main frameworks of the conference named as Rio+20 since it was organised twenty years after the Earth Summit of the United Nations again in Rio, where green economy in… Read more →
AEGEE Europe and Fraternite 2020
Dear AEGEEans, On the 11th of July 2012 AEGEE-Europe was invited to attend as one of the Speakers a Press Conference at the European Parliament in Brussels, to give public support to the project of Fraternite 2020, inside the frame of European Citizens’ Initiative of the European Commission. The Comité Directeur and AEGEE-Europe were this time represented by Luis Alvarado Martinez, who clearly expressed AEGE-Europe’s full support… Read more →
Step towards a new world for locals – Benefits of the UN Academic Impact programme
On the 18th November 2010 in New York , at the United Nations Headquarter a new initiative, the Academic Impact programme (UNAI), has started. The global initiative in a nutshell means a commitment from the side of institutions to use education as an engine for addressing global problems. The programm aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations (UN)… Read more →
AEGEE and the European Civic Forum
As you might know even though AEGEE-Europe is an umbrella organisation where locals are the member organisations, AEGEE-Europe itself is also a member organisation (MO) in other Umbrella organisations or platforms like European Youth Forum (YFJ), European Movement International and the European Civic Forum. The European Civic Forum (ECF) is a transnational network that brings together over 100 associations and… Read more →
The Euro – Arab Youth Cooperation is officially getting started
I had the chance to attend the Euro – Arab and Mediterranean Youth Leaders’ Meeting in Rome as a representative of AEGEE. The Italian National Youth Council hosted the event between 8th and 11th May, 2012. About 30 young leaders from Europe and the Arab world came to Rome to participate in the event. We were all there to start… Read more →
AEGEE-Groningen and their annual meeting with the European Parlament
On 30 May AEGEE-Groningen visited Brussels. This is something we do every year, so that the new members that we recruit can meet the Comité Directeur (CD), and become informed about the European level. Not only through AEGEE, but also through the European Parliament. There were even some people from AEGEE-Nijmegen, AEGEE-Bruxelles and the Comité Directeur joining us. Each year, we visit… Read more →