Alfredo Sellitti – President As for flowers, blooming in the sun after a cold winter, some interesting updates arrived in our external relations. A partnership agreement was signed with ThinkYoung, a Brussels based youth Think Tank that develops youth policies in the Eurocrat environment. The agreement will allow AEGEE and ThinkYoung to develop together ideas and projects, combining a high… Read more →
Alfredo Sellitti – President February officially represented our half term benchmark, and despite being the shortest month of the year it didn’t prove to be the least busy. On the 2nd of February I participated in the consultation round for defining the Strategic Priorities of the European Youth Forum. The process is almost coming to an end, and it is… Read more →
Despite not being elected as the Flagship Project of AEGEE last year The Eastern Partnership (EaP) project stayed strong, extended their team and lobbied all over Europe. Still not sure which project you think did the best job in 2011? PR manager Daryna Skryl of the Eastern Partnership team tells you why they did. Getting started The AEGEE Eastern Partnership… Read more →
What is typically good about a cool AEGEE event? Nice international people from various places of Europe, perfect winter weather, snowy slopes for skiing and snowing, cozy cottage in the middle of white mountains and AEGEE atmosphere! Apart from crazy parties, funny ice-breaking games, and never-ending activities there is something that makes all AEGEE events unique – thematic lectures. Besides… Read more →
2012 will be a very important and very challenging year for AEGEE’s Culture Working Group. We are celebrating 15 years of activity, and we like to think we are getting better every year. So, we needed an idea. Actually, we needed THE idea for a celebration. We wanted to make it important, entertaining, but, most of all, we wanted it… Read more →
There are seven billions inhabitants in the world, seven billions definitions of a woman. Motherhood, caregiver, fragile, sexy, femininity, guilty, purity and many others… Sadly, majority of these seven billions forget a very basic reality; above all, she is a human. She breathes, she feels, she loves, she hates, she cries, she protests… She is not a material he or… Read more →
Alfredo Sellitti – President The month of January started by returning from the Christmas holidays to the “Erasmus for All” programme. During January the internal consultation process came to an end, with the publication of the reaction of AEGEE-Europe to the programme (thanks to everybody who contributed to the paper!). On the same topic, I attended on the 11th a… Read more →
Prof.Dr. Gül Turan, Head of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of Okan University, Istanbul, opened the panel discussion of Saturday at EBM Izmir about “Non-Formal Education as a solution to (youth) unemployment”. The professor talked about the reasons of youth unemployment, its connection with education and the current situation in Turkey. Particularly, she pointed out that Turkey performed poorly in terms of… Read more →
Smiles and fantastic organizers surrounded more than 250 participants who attended the EBM in Izmir 9-13th of February 2012 Three guys from Izmir, three presidents, and, most importantly, three very good friends were eager and motivated to organise an EBM that would go down in history due to its greatness. My personal judgement: Mission completed! Right from arriving in Bornova,… Read more →
Alfredo Sellitti – President December brought Christmas mood, a bit of cold and a lot of concerns about the future, after the European Commission released, on the 23rd of November, a Communication about “Erasmus for all”, the programme that will take over “Youth in Action” from 2014. Several European platforms organised meetings in order to gather feedback and comments from as… Read more →
