Last September, AEGEE-Baki organised a Model United Nations (MUN) about Human Rights. It was directly connected with the Civic Education Focus Area (Aim 1, Objective 1) and the Spreading Europtimism Focus Area (Objective 3). For this reason, they were chosen as ACTive Local of the Month. We spoke to Vazifa Khalilli, PR Responsible of AEGEE-Baki, to find out more!… Read more →
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Member of the Month Shams Mammadli: “We Don’t Need Any Words to Share Our Love.”
Our Member of the Month of December must be the youngest recipient ever. She is just 18 and she is the Public Relation Responsible of AEGEE-Bakı. We chose her because she was in charge of the “Love has no language” project, in the framework of AEGEE-Bakı’s Language Working Group. The AEGEEan: Who is Shams? Shams: I am Shams Mammadli,… Read more →
Meet AEGEE-Bakı: “There is No Distance When it Comes to Co-operation”
One of the AEGEE locals that lies furthest to the east is AEGEE-Bakı, situated on a small peninsula in the Caspian Sea. You might think of them as a remote or different local, but nothing could be more wrong. If you spoke to them, you’d meet nothing but the most kind, open, and, above all, enthusiastic members, who organise the… Read more →
Azerbaijan: land of fire and much more.
Azerbaijan is one of those countries that people only visit when they have seen pretty much everything in Europe, but are too scared to go beyond Turkey for an insight of the Muslim world. Located in a perfect crossroad amid the Soviet legacy and the Islamic traditions, too open minded to be on one side but too different to be… Read more →
Mixing Fun, Sports and Raising Awareness: The AEGEE Bike Week
As part of the new action called GO GREEN, organized by the Environmental Working Group (EnWG), several locals all over Europe took part in the AEGEE Bike Week. The AEGEEan spoke to Elise Bessieres (AEGEE-Brussel/Bruxelles), HR responsible of the EnWG and therefore one of the initiators of the Bike Week, to find out more about the story behind this event and… Read more →
Conflict Resolution Meeting
The scope of conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh South Caucasus is a historical region between Russia, Iran and Turkey shared by Azerbaijanis, Armenians and Georgians. Situated in its center Nagorno-Karabakh remained for a long time a unique example of common peaceful co-existence of several ethnics that do not have the same language, religion and views of common history, but lots of common… Read more →
SU Story: from the Land of Fire
Summer University is the main event which allows Europeans to feel the AEGEE spirit and to spend the summer holidays with participants from other AEGEE locals. This year AEGEE-Bakı and AEGEE-Sumqayıt decided to co-organise this project to show the beauty, the culture, the language and the history of Azerbaijan, which is why it was divided in two parts (Baku and… Read more →
Caucasian miracle called AEGEE-Sumqayit
At the Spring Agora Enschede, AEGEE welcomed new “babies” in its family – it ratified previous contracts of new locals and signed the Conventions d’Adhésion (CdA) from the latest Network Meetings, as well as the new ones. However, among all the new locals, there was one which started its history long before Agora Enschede – AEGEE-Sumqayit. The AEGEE Contact in… Read more →