Let’s illustrate an image together, shall we? Let’s imagine people getting together to develop themselves. Self-realization through different exercises, and getting to know yourself in the present: who you are, your environment, and how it influences you. Then, realizing your past through different techniques, and learning to cherish the good times and letting go of the bad. Finally, looking into… Read more →
European Events
AEGEE-Torino Small Antenna, Amazing Event – How?
“Use your Tongue… Eat and Speak!” this year AEGEE-Torino’s Summer University (SU) was such an amazing event that I feel the need to share it. But I don’t want to bore you with how cool it was being there, I want to tell you which where the key elements that let a small antenna make such a good SU. Preparation… Read more →
Discovering and falling in love with the beautiful Transylvania
Summer vacation is probably the happiest period in a student’s life. How amazing can it get when you are travelling together with forty people from all around Europe, discovering Transylvania (Romania)? Cluj-Napoca was where our journey began. This beautiful, ancient, and vibrant city made us fall in love with it from the very first sight. On our first day… Read more →
Motivating AEGEE People in Renove 3.0
Renove is one of the most popular events in Spain, and there’s a good reason for that. It has the perfect combination of oldies and newbies, fun activities and workshops to introduce and motivate AEGEE members. Many members became active after the first Renove organized by AEGEE-Madrid, and the second Renove made AEGEE-Valladolid become Local of the Month. Renove 3.0… Read more →
Are you a good lobbyist?
“Are you a good lobbyist”? This was the central question to a simulation played at the Summer University of AEGEE-Delft, “Create your own world”. More than 20 participants and some of the organisers took part in this interactive workshop on European Union sustainability policy, getting a hands-on grip on the mechanisms of lobbying at the European level. In order to… Read more →
Preparing for the Agora: Motions
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 →
Jamón its Zaragoza
“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 →
Summer University Brescia. The Good Life!
This event was exactly as the title states: everyone had a good life in Brescia! Somebody would say, “for sure you had a good life, spending a summer in Italy, how could it not have been good?” Eighteen AEGEEans, from Spain to Azerbaijan, gathered together for ten days in Brescia, to try to find the answers; get new ideas; receive… Read more →
Fundraising for a Statutory Event
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 →
Chema Rueda, on the challenge of ZarAgora
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 →