AEGEE’s Culture Interest Group saw a flourishing under the guide of Sergio Genovesi and Alessandro Montefameglio, previous coordinators of the CIG. Recently, new coordinators Marta Pagnini and Anna Inozemceva were elected, and they started working intensively to explore all the opportunities that this Interest Group can offer to AEGEE members. The AEGEEan interviewed them for you. Old and new coordinators,… Read more →
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Introducing You The First Edition of BookCrossing by Culture Interest Group
AEGEEans love to share their opinions, ideas, but also gadgets, stickers and postcards. AEGEE-Warszawa knows best because they have been organising for some years now the famous Christmas Postcrossing. The Culture Interest Group, created last year, decide to take this sharing attitude of AEGEEans to the next level by organising the first edition of the BookCrossing. Alessandro Montefameglio, one of… Read more →
Welcome to the Culture Interest Group!
When the proposal about the working groups passed at Argora Asturias, several of them ceased to exist. One of them was the Culture Working Group. Some months later, two Italian members decided that it was about time to bring back the cultural side to the Network. We spoke with Sergio (AEGEE-Torino) who, together with Alessandro (AEGEE-Pisa), is already very active in… Read more →
Don’t miss the chance to discover Belarus
Even though AEGEE-Minsk is only a contact antenna they are already very active and now working on being upgraded. Moreover, they are also organising an event later this year giving AEGEEans a chance to take part in an international event and get to know their city. The AEGEEan interviewed Alesia Vorobyova and Nadezhda Fomenok about their antenna AEGEE-Minsk and their… Read more →
Visa Freedom Workshop Full of Participants
During Agora Rhein-Neckar, the Visa Freedom Working Group (VFWG) organized quite a successful workshop! The main leader and speaker of the workshop was an American citizen living in Germany and the Czech Republic, Mrs. Kimberli Jo Lewis, who has a certificate from the London Coaching Academy. Kimberli Lewis, International CEO, executive coach, and mentor, talked about transitioning and being culturally… Read more →
Keep Calm and Go Out with the BANG!
This year, like many years before, AEGEE-Valencia organised their well-known event dedicated to the world-famous local festival – Las Fallas. Each year the program of the event attracts many young people from all around Europe who are passionate about having new experiences and addicted to the true AEGEE spirit. This year the event was attended by 22 lucky participants from… Read more →
Events Committee Competition Winner Encourages to Organise as Many Exchanges as Possible
Recently we published the article giving you an insight into the story behind 2nd place winner of the Events Committee’s (EvC) Facebook competition. Now it is time to reveal the winner which includes not only AEGEE-Oviedo but also AEGEE-Yerevan and the Eastern Partnership Project Team. The Peace Building in Europe took place in Gijón last year, and the EvC’s competition… Read more →
Culture Everywhere: Literature
In this term, the Culture Working Group (CWG) started a new initiative that will make our streets and societies more cultural by very easy actions that can be carried out by individuals or by locals. In other words, the aim is to have Culture Everywhere, which is also the name of the action. Each month CWG members decide upon a cultural topic,… Read more →
Textbooks in Europe should be a matter of debate
“Do the textbooks we learn from in school reveal and shape national attitudes?” This was the title for the first online thematic discussion of the renewed Culture Working Group (CWG) that was held in early December 2012. Even though it was a rather cold evening, there we were ten enthusiast members to discuss the power of textbooks and to influence… Read more →
AEGEE — special language for special people
We all know what AEGEE is: a student organisation that unites different people (students and adults with a young soul) in one big international group with common interests and dreams of travelling. And of course, in this group, like in every other groups of people there are different customs and traditions. Among them are the European Night, Summer and Winter Universities,… Read more →