In times that are not financially easy, travelling seems to be a luxury, but do not forget that even a small trip helps to shake off the burden of problems and gain new strength. There are many tricks which might help to plan a cheap trip. Since most of AEGEEans are students on a budget, we would like to post… Read more →
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One Girl, One Interrail Pass, Five Countries: Carolina’s Experience
Everything starts in Chisinau, Moldova when I won another Interrail Pass thanks to the AEGEE Lottery. Another, because AEGEE had given me one just a few months before the first Interrail Pass for my SUCT trip. Surprised, lucky and happy I came back to Italy dreaming about my future adventure. I checked the map of Europe, and I started… Read more →
Why Consider an Internship in the USA?
Ready to gain practical hands-on experience and hone skills that will benefit you throughout your life? An internship in the United States will make you a better student and employee, cultivate your entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and foster skills that are highly prized by employers across the globe. Here are four reasons why you should cross the Atlantic and intern… Read more →
AEGEE-Skopje: the Macedonian Antenna Specialist in Organising TSUs
AEGEE-Skopje, the only antenna in Macedonia and with 70 members, has become well known for its Travel Summer Universities (TSU). We spoke with Maria Davceva, External Relations Responsible, who told us about the results of the last Winter Event, which the Macedonian antenna organised for the International Volunteer Day. She also explains their involvement in “Democracy in Practice” and focuses on previous… Read more →
AEGEE-Nijmegen and their hitchhike to Bruges: AEGEEans’ spirit on highways of Europe
Did any of you ever hitchhike? If you never did, but you would like to do it, or you did and you love it, than you will enjoy the story of AEGEE-Nijmegen. To find out how everything started and how everything finished we talked with Renée van Schaijk, organiser of the hitchhiking trip. What we found out was that hitchhiking… Read more →
Life after Erasmus: how to beat the Erasmus Blues
A lot of students dream about spending one or two semester abroad in a foreign country. And why not? The experience is amazing; you get to meet all these new amazing people from different countries with various backgrounds. You get to go to parties and stay out as late as you want. You can go on trips, see a country… Read more →
A hitchhiker’s guide to Europe
One of the cheapest ways to travel is hitchhiking, which is also used by AEGEEans, with some locals even organising hitchhiking competitions. Still though, many people haven’t tried it before and might even be scared to try. Are you one of them? Don’t worry! The AEGEEan has written a short hitchhiking course to help you out! How to prepare? Before… Read more →
Crossing Europe with Europe on Track 2
In 2013 the Europe on Track project got launched, sending out young people to cross the European continent searching for answers to questions like: ‘Why should more young people become actors in the European Project?’ and ‘How can we get young people more engaged in the European agenda?’ The project turned out to be a huge success, even winning the… Read more →
Relationships beyond borders
It is no secret that AEGEE is a very good place where to meet not only your future best friends, colleagues and simply great people, but even your future spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend. There are loads of stories about happy marriages between AEGEE members from the same and even different countries. But how does it work to have long-distance relationships… Read more →
Alternative holidays: thumb up
Some ideas come suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue, others are like raindrops, one by one creating a hurricane. For me, the situation was the second: first I read a blog post, then I saw a video, then I heard experiences from people… and finally I decided that this year I wanted to reach my Summer University by… Read more →