A few months went by since the Culture Working Group chose Sibiu as the AEGEE Capital of Culture, and host of its 15 years anniversary event. And I can even remember how AEGEE-Sibiu’s proposal attracted us, by showing a perfect understanding of how intercultural dynamics really functions, emphasizing the need to create an open and tolerant society and supporting cooperation… Read more →
It has been a while since we published news about EBM Valletta so The AEGEEan grabbed the opportunity to have a little chat with one of the main coordinators, Bernice Saliba, about the process so far. When asked about how it is going with the organisation, the answer is that the organisers have now formed the teams with sub-commissions and… Read more →
A year in Comité Directeur, taking a break from real life for a while, this is exactly how it is. There is one simple sentence to explain all bunch of feelings we have been through; we were here. We lived, we loved, we felt, we cried, we laughed, we worked, oh we did work… Exactly a year ago, we arrived… Read more →
In the month of July, just before starting to pack for our summer destinations, the Culture Working Group members found time for an online discussion of a controversial title: “Multiculturalism is Dead”. True? False? There we were: Carlijn, Dóra, Sergio, Özgün and Alexandra, trying to find an explanation to this statement, and to share our own thoughts, based on personal… Read more →
Marko Grdošić – President June I will start with Les Anciens General Assembly. Les Anciens are a huge encyclopedia of AEGEE, past activities and best practice and we have to find a way how to benefit more from that, focusing on continuity in our work and achievements. We had a very nice exchange of views and we’re looking forward to work… Read more →
“Dear volunteers from Poznań! I have just received an excellent message that happily announces the amount of money you had collected there – thank You, thank You so much! On 1st of June 2012 we celebrated Children’s Day and even though most of you are the adults I wish you all the best!” This is the beginning of the letter… Read more →
“…Children’s games in the streets were suddenly interrupted but they wanted to play more with their Armenian friends, they wanted to listen together to tales of their grandparents in the dusty streets of Van, Kars and Bitlis. Without telling the reason why our Armenian friends left, they taught us to forget 24 April, to forget the games we played and the stories… Read more →
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Abrahah J. Heschel (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) For a long time before starting this article, I was thinking about how to start it, and at last I have not found anything better than to just take a quote of Abraham Heschel, who… Read more →
Marko Grdošić – President I guess the month of May is the hardest to describe and write about. There was an Agora! And it was for sure not an easy one. Aware of what the whole Vote of Confidence might bring, we went for it, knowing that this is the right and only solution to resolve all the internal issues… Read more →
Alfredo Sellitti – President It started coming back from the NWM in Kragujevac, “where amazing happened”: motivated participants and motivating trainers gave their best to make this event unforgettable, under the precious coordination of Marijana. After one week home for the holidays, I went with Gizem to Strasbourg, where James Skelly and BCA organised a very interesting conference about “European –… Read more →
