David Guetta Founder and member of AEGEE-Kazantip* Speaker of the Party Working Group Active member of We-do-Nothing Commission Editor-in-Chief of Monthly Party Newsletter Member of EXIT** Committee AEGEE/European Students’ Forum Familiar signature, isn’t it? How many times it happened with you that reading the signature of the sender under e-mail, you already forgot which was the content of it and… Read more →
Every day we are bumping into news about violence… And they somehow pass by us. Hundreds of dead people in Syria, plane crash in Nigeria or army beating protesting people in Egypt. We are so used to hear them that somehow we have stopped realising what they mean. We have stopped till the moment it happens in our “home.” As… Read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Of course, all AEGEE members know that the best way to find cheap and wonderful accommodation is to stay with their AEGEE friends – free of charge, friendship guaranteed and local life possible. But what to do when you want to visit a city where there are no AEGEE members living? From my own experience here are some suggestions which… Read more →
Going to Gdansk? Remember to bring clothes to wear for the beach, but also a rain coat, an umbrella or whatever that may protect you from the Polish weather! Gdansk it said all over the city when I arrived to this Polish sea side city in the beginning of June. I had packed my stuff, and was headed to spent… Read more →
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 →
On a boring Sunday, while watching a documentary about climate change, I came up with the idea to calculate how much I have contributed to this phenomenon. As we in AEGEE are all avid travellers, keen on exploring other countries and meeting our friends all over Europe again, I started to calculate how polluting all my flights I ever took… Read more →
It is common to get friend requests on Facebook. Even more common if you are in AEGEE. Even more common if you are an “AEGEE celebrity” but in many cases you could read a name on Facebook thinking “who is this” but then reading that you have more than 50 friends in common would make you accept the friend request… Read more →
