Do you know the story of the girl who silenced the world for five minutes? Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki. At the age of 12, she stood before representatives of all countries of the world, gathered in Rio in 1992, and told them: “My father always says ‘you are what you do, not what you say!’ Well, what you do… Read more →
Have you ever thought about how difficult it can be to find a secretary and secretary-assistants for the Chair Team? Or what makes people interested in being the secretary of the Agora? Most of you, during the Agora, watch the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson preside over the meeting. But how about the secretary? The only thing people witness is the… Read more →
A multi-time AGORA visitor, an even more-time workshop presenter, Fabian Brüggemann is at it again. Get ready to join his “Improve yourself” workshops among the possibilities at AGORA Zaragozaaaaaaa. Just as the ideas he presents, Fabian also never stops improving himself. With 11 AGORAE behind him and 12 workshops done, he keeps learning something new. All this started with a… Read more →
“Honest disagreement is a sign of progress” – that’s what Ghandi said. Among all the interesting workshops that will be held at the Zaragora, we focus on “The art of constructive disagreement , that will be held by Ivan Bielik (AEGEE-Brno) on behalf of the International Politics Working Group (IPWG), whom we interviewed for you. The AEGEEan: The expression “constructive disagreement” may… Read more →
Recently the Comité Directeur distributed the Open Call (OC) for autumn Agora 2014 organisers. In the meantime people in Zaragoza and Patra work hard on preparing the best Agorae ever, despite being organised in two countries where the economic situation could be better. The AEGEEan interviewed Angela Campos from Zaragoza and Costas Deltouzos from Patra to get an update on… Read more →
Frequent Agora visitors are used to dealing with a lot of proposals during a statutory event. But during recent Agorae a new trend could be spotted: the use of motions. Why are these motions used, and how are they different from proposals? I will discuss these questions basing myself upon my interpretation of the rules on motions in the CIA as… Read more →
“I Love Jamón” is the slogan of the famous t-shirt from AEGEE-Zaragoza. However, it is not the only food that the people from Aragón love. Chema Rueda, Main organizer of the Agora Zaragoza, spoke with The AEGEEan about the food of Zaragoza and the food for ZarAGORA. What is special about the food in Zaragoza? In Zaragoza, we have a… Read more →
The dates are set. From February 13th until February 18th 2014, AEGEE members will gather in Lublin to take part in EBM. An event organised not only by AEGEE-Lublin, but in cooperation with other Polish antennae. The AEGEEan interviewed the main coordinator Jakub Oleksy to get an update on the event. The AEGEEan: What have you been doing since… Read more →
In a few months members of AEGEE will gather in Spain. More specifically this autumn the Agora will be organised in Zaragoza and even though it is summer time then there is no doubt that AEGEE-Zaragoza is planning an event that 800 people will enjoy! This is an interview with the main organiser Chem Rueda on the challenges of organising… Read more →
It came as a little surprise to many that next Spring Agora organiser will be AEGEE-Patra. Representatives from the antenna already told The AEGEEan about their plans, when they were elected as Local of the Month and in Mannheim it was announced that they will indeed be the hosts next year. The AEGEEan took the opportunity to interview the main organiser: Costas… Read more →
