The festivals of Midsummer’s Eve, known as Saint John’s Eve among Christians, have roots in ancient celebrations related to the summer solstice. Bonfires were lit to protect against evil spirits which were believed to roam freely when the sun was turning southward again. The Bonfires of Saint John’s (Hogueras de San Juan) is a traditional and popular festival, customary for… Read more →
Multimedia in AEGEE has been wide explored: we have an annual publication, we have, and had, several magazines, a TV channel and a radio channel. In every Agora, there is some time reserved for promotional videos, and after every Agora and EPM in the past few years we can watch and rewatch the aftermovie. How is it possible, then, that… Read more →
Somewhere in Brussels, near the European Commission, you can find a house that looks just like most other houses in the city from the outside, but contains a lot of rooms, people and ideas on the inside. What house am I talking about? The AEGEE house, which the new Comité Directeur has been calling their home since the 1st of… Read more →
Pablo Hernandez Rodriguez is currently External Relations Director and he decided he wanted to continue his work for AEGEE by running as President. He has a Master Degree in Law but, as he think that ” AEGEE as a European Students’ Forum should keep the student perspective”, he is studying a second master in European Affairs. He will turn 25 in… Read more →
Guillermo Macia Diaz was also one of the organisers of the Spring Agora Alicante 2011 and a board member of his antenna. He tells us that AEGEE has changed his life completely by easing him to improve English language and to find a work thanks to the contacts he has cultivated inside the students association. The AEGEEan:Can you tell us… Read more →
Miguel Gallardo Albajar, former Comité Directeur member, Carmen María López, former Network Commissioner, Pablo Hernández, Policy Officer and former President are just some of the names immediately crossing our mind when we think about this amazing local. Another interesting fact is that two members of AEGEE-Alicante, Jorge Sánchez Hernández and Pablo Palazón have founded new contacts in Dresden and Manchester.… Read more →
To be or not to be? That is really not a question. The question is how to transform 12 awesome days into just two pages. Well I will try. I know. I am probably not the only one who thinks this, but I really believe that we have experienced something special in Alicante this summer. Do you want to know why?… Read more →
Pauline Létard has been working hard as a Network Commissioner since Autumn Agora Zaragoza and it is certainly appreciated not only by the Network Commission in which she was part of the speaker team but also all the antennae she was responsible for. Due to personal reasons she chose to resign and Carmen María López Banegas from AEGEE-Alicante has become… Read more →
The Network Commissioners are currently choosing where they will host the autumn Network Meetings. It is already known that AEGEE-Brescia will host for the Rainbow area but others are still in the application process. What do antennae get out of organizing Network Meetings? The AEGEEan interviewed two different antennae about this. Carmen María and Sora Chung from AEGEE-Alicante as well… Read more →
During Spring Agora Patra two new Contacts were announced to the Network, namely the Contacts in Dresden and Podgorica. The AEGEEan spoke with the founders of the new Contacts, Jorge Sánchez Hernández and Filip Rasovic to find out more about these new additions to the AEGEE network. Jorge Sánchez Hernández became a member of AEGEE-Alicante in April 2013 to go… Read more →
