Every three years, AEGEE drafts its new course, new focus areas and new opportunities to try new things and to try to improve different fields of the organisation. This year was the year! We made it happen between the 19th and 23rd of June in Köln, Germany. Five members from the planning team, worked hard for months, working on the… Read more →
In 2015 the United Nation Member States adopted The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. This Agenda represents the so-called 17 Sustainable Development Goals, often also referred to as the Global Goals. The goals are connected to many aspects of sustainable development, such as climate change, human rights, education, preserving nature, political institutions, and highlight the need for global action. Read more →
Torino will host YEAH!, the very first volunteering politics festival How many non-voters do you know? Sadly, we live in a society that looks to the future with hopeless eyes. Lots of citizens believe that they will never change their political surroundings, regardless of the effort they put into it. This pessimistic thought persists due to several reasons, being the… Read more →
It’s been more than one month since AEGEE-Izmir was in the spotlight of the AEGEE network: on 6th – 10th of February, the antenna hosted the annual European Planning Meeting (EPM), where new objectives for the organization were set out and relevant topics – “green sustainability” and “EU-Turkey relations” – were heatedly discussed. The AEGEEan talked to the main organizer… Read more →
Imagine you live in an EU country, yet far far away from the heart of the continent – say, on remote Canary islands. How can you foster the sense of belonging to Europe and to Brussels, where decision directly concerning your life are made every day? AEGEE-Las Palmas knows the answer. Natalia Klimenko spoke to Isabel Romay, the vice-President of AEGEE-Las… Read more →
The Europe on Track conference “Smart Cities: Can you hear the ECO?” was the kick-off event for Europe on Track #5 and took place in the beautiful city of Thessaloniki from the 15th until the 18th of March 2018. Organised by Europe on Track in collaboration with AEGEE-Thessaloniki, this international conference touched upon many burning issues related to environmental sustainability,… Read more →
“Discrimination0”, the project organised by AEGEE-Lviv, AEGEE-Dresden and AEGEE-Moskva has already come to its end. The project consisted of two parts which took place in Ukraine and Germany in the format of youth exchange. The main goal of the event – promoting tolerance and unity for building a society free of any kind of discrimination and stereotypes. The first part took… Read more →
AEGEE-Warszawa and the European Citizenship Working Group have great things in store for this spring. With Citizenship at its Grassroots-European and Polish Perspectives, they want to explore the current situation of democracy and the rule of law in Europe and Poland during a three-days event in March. We reached out to Patrycja Figarska, from AEGEE-Warszawa, and Álvaro González Pérez and Jasmin… Read more →
Two cities, a full schedule with a strong thematic side, the usual AEGEE spirit: this is what lies ahead for participants to the conference “Brexit-What next?” jointly held by AEGEE-London, AEGEE-Manchester and AEGEE-Sheffield from the 29th of November to the 4th of December. 25 participants, both AEGEEans and non-AEGEEans, will have the opportunity to tackle the issues arising from Brexit,… Read more →
AEGEE Kiev and AEGEE Heidelberg are cooperating to organise a German-Ukrainian Youth exchange on European awareness, participation, identity and vision for the future this autumn. They also presented it on stage during Autumn Agora Catania. What does the European Union mean to you? Asking this question, one will be given fundamentally different answers, depending on age, nationality, profession and… Read more →
