“The Focus Area of Climate Emergency aims to educate young people and empower them to practice active citizenship in order to contribute to the green transition, understood as the individual and collective measures that need to be taken to prevent an environmental catastrophe” (aegee.org) The (almost) middle of their term seemed like the perfect moment to take a look at… Read more →
“Social Equity Focus Area aims to make young people aware of discrimination based on place of origin, gender, sexual orientation, and disabilities, and take action to promote equity from an intersectional perspective. Raise awareness, position itself and take action to tackle discrimination from an intersectional perspective, with the aim of promoting social equity” (aegee.org) It has been 6 months since… Read more →
EPM Barcelona, with the theme “No one left behind”, concluded on the 9th of February 2020. But unfortunately, 31 January 2020 left behind a crack in what AEGEE stands for; the day of Brexit. The Big Ben will not bong for Brexit, after projected costs spiralled to half a million pounds (half of that money was already collected through racing… Read more →
It has been known for a while now that the world population is expected to increase to over 9.7 billion by 2050. To illustrate, this is more than twice as many people as when AEGEE was founded in 1985 and more than triple than when my mom was born in 1964. Can earth provide us with enough natural resources for… Read more →
Europe on Track is a project by AEGEE-Europe, run by young volunteers who aim to raise awareness, to create a space for discussion and to capture the opinions of youth in Europe on important social issues. Now this is, in a nutshell, what every edition of Europe on Track aims to achieve. Read more →
The European elections in May will decide how the EU will develop over the next five years. Do we want the member states to continue backing off from the European project, or do we want them to work together to face global challenges as one entity? The Brexit referendum has shown, that those who – like us – believe in… Read more →
Have you ever wondered what kind of impact your phone has on the environment or how you can be less wasteful and get the most use out of your phone? We use phones every day, and we want to help you spend less money, generate less waste and help preserve the environment. Read more →
The Eastern Partnership Project of AEGEE first started in 2011 and was built upon the EU’s project of Eastern Partnership which was created in 2008-09. Since then, it has reunited young and talented students from the European continent, EaP countries and even from Turkey and Russia around a common goal: to encourage and to empower youth, to raise awareness about… Read more →
Mental health awareness is one of the YDWG’s objectives for 2018/19 When it comes to physical health, everybody seems to be concerned about it and tries to live an acceptable lifestyle. Nevertheless, the mental aspect happens to be quite forgotten. We had a talk with Desireé Van Langen (member of the Youth Development Working Group), and Sara Þöll (member of… Read more →
AEGEE stands for borderless Europe and no Europe can be “borderless” with a barrier in between them. This barrier is not the barrier of roads, not the barrier of trees, not the barrier of Alps but, the barrier of us humanity known as discrimination. Equal Rights Working Group strives to break this barrier and make the Europe truly borderless. Here… Read more →
