One year has passed, we were spending our first full and busy summer and our second August in Brussels. We didn’t stop working until the end, but we took a short break to gather enough energy for the even more exciting months ahead of us. It was an amazing year, full of AEGEE spirit and full of results in the… Read more →
It has not been such a long time since The AEGEEan introduced Madalena Souza who works in the CD house. Now it is time to let the Network get to know Marcos Dosantos the new intern at the house, who came a little bit better. What is your background? What made you interested in volunteering? I am originally from… Read more →
Three weeks ago, AEGEE was invited to a pilot experience coming from the European Parliament. For the first time, a Member of the European Parliament would establish a dialogue with some stakeholders in the youth field through HangOut, a recently launched platform that allows up to 10 people to interact in a videoconference which can be also recorded and streamed… Read more →
The first month of the summer kept the Comité Directeur hyperactive, it has been full of work, events and conferences, many of them have showed that long months and sometimes years of hard work have been payed-off. The summer also means an amazing start for all of us. Dozens of AEGEEans gathered together the last week of June to proudly… Read more →
The work of a Policy Officer involves a lot of reading — lengthy study and survey reports, lofty European Commission publications, and repetitive online discussions — but every now and then something more exciting comes along as well. One of those moments was the first lobbying meeting of the Dutch Youth Council on Education for sustainability, followed the next day… Read more →
This was the question that we wanted to debate at the conference held by AEGEE on June 5th and 6th in the European Parliament, where different Belgian and European NGOs had the opportunity to discuss the possibilities for Co-Management in the European institutions, together with representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and its Advisory Council on Youth,… Read more →
We had the feeling that May has passed in a mere blink of an eye, even though we thought that the summer months will be less engaging than the rest of the year given the fact that the Network is preparing for the Summer Universities. We had a full month with Charlemagne Award Ceremony in Aachen, IT European School in… Read more →
Something amazing this way comes… and yes, here it is, the long anticipated Spring has finally arrived in Brussels as well! The sunshine and the Spring breeze gave the Comité Directeur such a huge amount of energy this month, that even the extremely intense Agora couldn’t hold us back from the active work for the rest of the month! Luis Alvarado Martínez (President)… Read more →
Seven International Non-Governmental Youth Organisations (INGYOs) and two National Youth Councils (NYCs) lead by AEGEE-Europe came together to develop a campaign on Youth Rights, aiming to stress the urgency of creating a Europe where Youth Rights are recognised and respected, so that every young person can live to their fullest potential! In September 2012, Ministers responsible for Youth from… Read more →
On 7-8 February 2013 the European Council came to an agreement about the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) of the Union for 2014-2020. An agreement that has a big effect on AEGEE and AEGEE-Europe’s president Luis Alvarado Martinez explains in this article the consequences it may have for your antenna. Discussions started off with a €1-trillion budget proposed by the… Read more →
