In February, despite the cold weather, the Comité Directeur was full of energy and passion. We felt some relief since the biggest and hardest part of the moving has ended during the first weekend, but there was still a lot of work on the house to do to make it feel like our new home. During this short month, we… Read more →
On Wednesday, 9th January 2013, Luis Alvarado Martinez and Lucille Rieux, President and Secretary General of AEGEE-Europe met Philippe l’Eglise-Costa, the advisor on European Affairs of the President of France, Francois Hollande. The Comite Directeur had asked for this meeting shortly after M.Hollande’s election to the French presidency. He is characterised by his strong interest in youth issues and his… Read more →
New Year is the time of new beginnings. Following this beautiful tradition, AEGEE-Europe has decided to start the year on a new track in a new house. The old AEGEE office is well known for its bad condition. 15 different CDs, numerous Working Group meetings and endless AEGEEans from all over Europe have simply worn out the place. It is literally… Read more →
Watch this video interview with Doris Pack, Member of the European Parliamant and Chair of the EU Committee on Culture and Education, made by Luis Alvarado Martínez, Kathrin Renner and Lucille Rieux from the Comité Directeur about the future of the Euroepan Union (EU) education and youth programmes. Read more →
It has been less than two months since Guillermo Garcia Tabarés moved out of the Comité Directeur (CD) house but that has not stopped him from being proactive in AEGEE. He has come up with not one, not two, not three, but four different proposals on how AEGEE could be improved in relation to Comité Directeur and the Working Groups… Read more →
The AEGEEan is starting a new section – News from the Past! Now on regular basis we will introduce you to interesting articles from previous annual reports (“Key to Europe“). First article in this series goes back to 2002! Communication: from strategy to implementation Branding AEGEE in Brussels (April 1997- May 1999) Background and Challenge For AEGEE-Europe, Brussels… Read more →
Quite often after being involved in AEGEE work on full-time basis, lots of AEGEE members are leaving AEGEE “to get some rest”. However, the candidate for Chair Team Alla Resheten, whose name is usually followed by countless AEGEE titles, is not tired. “How you can be tired from something you thoroughly enjoy?”, says Alla. The AEGEEan was lucky enough to… Read more →
Comité Directeur 2011/2012 Without our predecessors, the Comité Directeur 2011/2012, we could not have had such a fruitful and useful month of August as we had and we could not have been prepared for all the challenges of the upcoming year, so we are all really grateful for the Knowledge Transfer that happened in August. Marko Grdošić – President Marko… Read more →
We communicate all the time, especially online and it has already been mentioned once but will be mentioned again that there seems to be lack of interest in AEGEE about how we choose to handle cases especially such as PR, and e-mailing each other. Being a member of the Sports Working Group board, I have experienced myself that people feel overwhelmed… Read more →
During the Green Week in Brussels at the end of May, members of the Environmental Working Group met in the CD house to catch up, but also to have a closer look at the house itself from a green perspective. In the past, CD members complained about the high energy costs, so we teamed up to turn the CD house… Read more →
