{"id":20690,"date":"2013-12-13T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=20690"},"modified":"2013-12-13T19:37:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:37:33","slug":"suct-work-hard-play-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2013\/12\/13\/suct-work-hard-play-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"SUCT: Work hard, play hard"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a very good proverb almost in every language which in English sounds like \u00abrepair your cart in December; in July your sledge remember\u00bb, meaning if you want to get the result in the nearest future you have to start working on it now. The best result and a lot of improvements are the aims of the new Summer University Coordination Team (SUCT) elected at the amazing Autumn Agora Zaragoza 2013. So after only a little time to rest from Zaragaza they had an internal meeting in Brussels.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

So these are the elected, self-called ‘Fantastic four’ –\u00a0Francesca Russo, Project Manager<\/strong>\u00a0(president of AEGEE-Padova),\u00a0Gerardo Garcia Diaz, Publication Responsible<\/strong>\u00a0(PR Responsible of AEGEE-Oviedo), Anna Pykhtina, PR-Responsible<\/strong>\u00a0(PR Responsible of AEGEE-Kyiv) and\u00a0Andrea Nostro, IT-Responsible<\/strong>\u00a0(president of AEGEE-Reggio Calabria).<\/p>\n

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Cooking Lunch<\/p><\/div>\n

Waffles, Belgian fries (yes, not French, not American but\u00a0Belgian), beer, Grande Place and Manneken Pis \u2013 are things that the team did not have time to try or see. The most popular words that could be heard from the room during the long but productive meeting were: participants and organizers, quality and cooperation, improvements, implementations and lunch – “when is the lunch”?<\/p>\n

Woken up by four alarm clocks early Sunday morning, the team gathered in the meeting room and started to brainstorm with sharing fears and expectations. New improvements are good, but everyone agreed that printing and delivering SU maps to locals on time is one of the more important things to do. Having a list with more than 25 things to discuss, they started with imagining what the perfect SU should look like. This was the most important thing for the team to be sure to move in the same direction and achieve the desirable result. The discussion lasted until late in the night. These are the nine main things you need to know:<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong>\u00a0Categories:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All activities in a Summer University, as usual, should be linked to the theme which is taken from one of the suggested categories. It doesn’t count as theme if there is only one or two activities fitting to it.\u00a0<\/strong>(Not to confuse things, here is an example: Category = Environment, Theme = Recycling). You can find the categories below:<\/p>\n

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After eight hours of discussion<\/p><\/div>\n