One of the pre-event organised before Agora Budapest took place in Bratislava. As the very first event of Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) it confirmed once again that AEGEE events can be thematically oriented. During the event hate speech in Europe and the online combat against it were the main topic discussed and it clearly pointed out that freedom of… Read more →
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The importance of Visa discussed at Agora Budapest
The Visa Freedom Working Group (VFWG) is – according to some people in AEGEE – a “very important part of the organisation.” However, after more than 1,5 years I do not have this feeling anymore. During the workshop (WS) of the Visa Freedom Working Group at the Autumn Agora Budapest, we raised an interesting and important topic of AEGEE – a topic that… Read more →
No Chance for Politics: Ways for Youth to overcome Information Pressure in Conflict Zones
Have you ever thought about the effect you can produce with an update of your Facebook status? A workshop delivered by Nikolay Kazantsev from AEGEE-Moscow covered one of the most important parts of peacemaking for conflict zones in Europe – resistance to nationalistic propaganda and information pressure from the official media, and declared a way that AEGEE members could contribute to… Read more →
Are You Stranger than a Stranger?
We are going a little bit back in time – to Friday, November the second, the day when the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) had its first official workshop in a statutory event. This workshop was titled exactly the same as this article: Are you stranger than a stranger? The word “stranger” when mentioned for the first time refers to… Read more →
Project Management Workshop at the Autumn Agora Budapest
Our workshop provided the basics of project management to our participants. Our participants first got to understand what project management is, and what consists a project team. We have provided our participants a toolkit for project management, going through the most basic notions about project life cycle or presenting different schemes for structuring ideas. We have introduced examples of useful… Read more →
Results of the Agora Budapest Workshop ‘How Strategic Planning can help your Local or Project
‘If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got’ was the motto the workshop ‘Awaken the vision’ started off with. The idea behind this slogan was that when you continuously take the same road, you will keep ending up in the same place instead of moving forward to a better or different place. This goes… Read more →
The Real Safeguard of Democracy is Education
On the 31st of October 2012, people from all over Europe assembled in Budapest to attend the Autumn Agora 2012. Of course the Eastern Partnership Project (EaP) was also present there! With a total of six people, we represented our team and increased the visibility of EaP among AEGEE members. Highlights were the AEGEE fair where we held a special… Read more →
EURO Babylon: a Workshop about Linguistic Similarities and Differences
It is hard to believe that already a week passed since the wonderful closure of the Autumn Agora Budapest. But all these great memories are still alive in our hearts and we are still so vigorously inspired and highly motivated to contribute to AEGEE goals and activities after participating in progress meetings, workshops, and simply talking to active and experienced… Read more →
Smile you’re on candid camera – embarrassing not only yourself but also the organisation
Imagine you are not at the Agora and catch the opportunity to watch the live coverage of the Agora’s closing plenary. The aim might be to see which proposals have been approved to change the future of the organisation, and who will be leading the different commissions, but that is not exactly what you witness when you press the “start”… Read more →
Taking European Night out of the Agora
Do you still feel hungover from European Night (EN) or has the aftermath of enjoying alcoholic beverages from all over Europe already left your body? Ready to take up the discussion about this famous AEGEE night taking place in all AEGEE events but which some believe should not have a place in a statutory event such as the Agora? Here… Read more →