Together with members of AEGEE-Budapest, AEGEE-Debrecen, AEGEE-Piliscsaba and AEGEE-Pécs, Alfredo and me represented AEGEE at the 2nd EU-Level Thematic Conference for the European Year of Volunteering 2011 that took place in Brussels this Monday and Tuesday, 23rd-24th May. I must admit that the main insight won during this conference was not what I had expected or hoped for. Originally planned… Read more →
Last week I took a ride home to Freiburg from Köln with a guy who offered to share his car for a few bananas. On that day, there was a huge demonstration organised by the right wing “Pro Köln” movement against the construction of the great new mosque in one of the more traditional districts of the city. I was… Read more →
The Spring Agora Alicante is over. It was our last Agora in charge, and all of us are a bit nostalgic these days. It is exactly like Miguel G. A. said when he was announced as honorary member of AEGEE-Alicante on the Agora stage: Some things are given to you that you just cannot give back, even if you do… Read more →
Previous week end I’ve spend in really nice small student city in Germany – Tubingen. Why? I will tell you in this post. So on Friday I’ve left CD house at 5.30 am in order to catch train to Aachen. After traveling for 9 hours around Germany and making 6 changes I’ve finally arrived to Tubingen to attend Network meeting… Read more →
A reaction to “Young people: Do we need them?” by Andy Carling http://www.neurope.eu/articles/105469.php Youth – the key player and the future of society. Today more often than ever before youth as a generation is being supported and started to form a very specific division of society somewhere between children and so-called adulthood. Sociologists have started to develop a new nomenclature… Read more →
As you may know, AEGEE is a member of IFISO – Informal Forum of International Student Organizations (http://ifiso.org/) It is an informal platform gathering more than 25 NGOs (mostly European, but also worldwide) IFISO meets twice a year, always in autumn and in spring and representatives from different NGOs (mostly members of international boards or liaison officers) are getting together… Read more →
> Agora Alicante is approaching (to be more precise we have just 41 days till it starts) and it means that it’s time to gather Chair team, Juridical Commission and Secretary General at one place for working on content part of the Agora. In this blog post I will try to describe how we were working during Chair meeting in… Read more →
CD House has a new inhabitant, and that is me – Kathrin Renner :). For the next two months, I’ll be assisting CD and especially Mirek with Fundraising, and my main responsibility will be the Study Fair in Alicante. I came here for the first time in my life last Tuesday, when I dropped all of my stuff already before… Read more →
> The International Politics Working Group just held an Article Contest – “Crisis in Europe: What could European youth do to help its society to solve this problem?”, asking you to you to share with us any idea you might have on how the young people of our continent can take initiatives to overpass the current crisis at the economic, social and cultural level. Although… Read more →
> First weekend of not-so-cold February was again very busy in CD house. AEGEE-Academy, together with CD and Chair met here for strategic planning meeting on human resources. Friday was arrival day, a bit of getting to know each other, cooking dinner and surprisingly, going to sleep quite early, so everybody would be fresh next morning. And it was needed… Read more →
