Summer Universities

Surviving La Tomatina

Looking to unleash your wild side? Or simply want to experience something really crazy? Let me introduce you the recipe for the best possible summertime event in friendly Valencia region… The ingredients are: 21 international participants, five brilliant organizers, caring helpers… Eight days in nine towns in the region of Valencia, a dozen Spanish festivals and parades… Educational city tours,… 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 →

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 →

SU Story: AEGEE Salerno «Non Solo Sole 2012»: More than just an SU that we used to go!

I am 99, 99 % sure that instead of reading the title of this article you were singing it in your head. Just as you cannot get «Somebody that I used to know» out of your head, participants of the most awesome Summer University (SU) by AEGEE-Salerno cannot get the SU memories out of their hearts. And frankly, they do… Read more →

SU Story: Making friendships that will last for a lifetime on the way to Santiago

The AEGEEan: Remember last year that AEGEE-León was honoured with the best evaluated Summer University? This year the antenna repeated the success and organised yet a top 10 SU, this time together with AEGEE-A-Coruña. Below, you can read about what made this Summer University possibly the greatest walk of many AEGEE peoples’ lives. Daniele: I have always been in a… Read more →