{"id":21341,"date":"2014-01-14T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=21341"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:43:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T18:43:31","slug":"nwm-salerno-not-only-summer-university-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2014\/01\/14\/nwm-salerno-not-only-summer-university-material\/","title":{"rendered":"NWM Salerno – Not Only Summer University Material"},"content":{"rendered":"

Babbo Natale (the Italian name for Santa Claus) arrived a little late for AEGEE\u2013Salerno.\u00a0On December 29th, Network Commissioner Mattia Abis (AEGEE-Cagliari) sent an\u00a0email to the Rainbow Network (Italian-speaking, Maltese antennae and the Contact\u00a0of AEGEE\u2013 Europe in Lugano) announcing that the Southern Italian antenna was chosen\u00a0to host the Spring Network Meeting in 2014. <\/em><\/p>\n

It was not an easy decision for Mattia and his\u00a0team of subcommissioners, since other locals had also applied. However, in his words, they found their candidacy “perfect for the offer made and the motivation that was proven: it was really difficult to say no!”. AEGEE\u2013Salerno\u00a0is very well-known for organizing for already 25 years the\u00a0Non Solo Sole<\/em> Summer University, that has reached the top several time, like in 2012 when it was placed at a second position.<\/p>\n

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Carolina Alfano, the Vice-president of AEGEE-Salerno, will be the main organizer. She will bring her huge\u00a0experience on NWMs, since she has attended six of them in the last three years. \u201c The idea\u00a0of bringing a NWM in Salerno started being shaped in my head during the NWM in Foggia. We were\u00a0joking with other participants about that, but only when I came back it became serious. After speaking with my board, friends and fellow members, I got full support from them”, Carolina explains.<\/p>\n

Nothing was decided until Mattia had delivered the good news. Normally, in the Italian-speaking and Maltese area, there is the unwritten rule to have one NWM in the South and one in the North, but when choosing AEGEE-Salerno this rule\u00a0was broken. \u201cFor me it doesn\u2019t change a lot because I\u2019m living in an island\u00a0and I have to take a flight or a boat to get there anyway, and I guess it happens the same thing to the members of AEGEE-Valletta and somehow also to the Sicilian locals\u201d, Mattia jokes, and he adds: \u201c I asked them (his team of subcommissioners) to consider the candidatures not only for the geographical condition and\u00a0we unanimously selected AEGEE-Salerno. We had decided to give the\u00a0NWM to a Southern local because they were offering very good conditions for us: from a low\u00a0fee participation to all the meals covered, passing through an already closed agreement\u00a0with the municipality for accommodation\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mattia and his team of subcommies have already a\u00a0pretty clear idea of what the NWM will be about. Besides the usual sessions focusing\u00a0on the needs of the Network, there will be some promising sessions such as the ones related to Erasmus+, conflicts within the local boards, Action Agenda, Strategic Plan, and a European Level Bodies Fair, as well\u00a0as some preparation sessions for the Agora.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Following the path of the former Network Commissioner Claudio\u00a0Armandi (AEGEE-Napoli), Mattia and his team decided to set the date from 10th to\u00a013th of April, right before Spring Agora Patra. \u201cI think it\u2019s better to have a NWM before Agora:\u00a0you can discuss proposals with a lot of locals, you can discuss the candidates of the next\u00a0Agora, it makes you feel more important in our General Assembly!” At the same time he noticed that \u201cthe NWM before a Statutory event pushes people to discuss about it and makes\u00a0them more productive; in fact, in Agora Zaragoza, the only proposal written by locals was the one by people from the Rainbow and we had five candidates there; a record if we think that in\u00a0general very few people are interested in the European level\u201d.<\/p>\n

This year is a very important year for AEGEE\u2013Salerno. The antenna will blow their 25 candles. \u201cWe want to make this year a very lucky one for AEGEE \u2013 Salerno and the city\u201d, Carolina explains. \u201cIn 2014 the city will\u00a0celebrate the 70th anniversary of Salerno Capitale d’Italia<\/em> (Salerno Italy Capital city) and,\u00a0with the support from the Municipality, the NWM will be added in the calendar of celebrations\u201d. The Southern Italian antenna decided to take action and to challenge themselves into something different than their\u00a0notorious Summer University. \u201c We stepped a little bit out of our comfort zone bringing the\u00a0NWM in Salerno\u201d, added Carolina, \u201cbut AEGEE \u2013 Salerno is full of active members, we\u00a0are organizing plenty of events in the city and we cannot wait to show our best\u201d.\u00a0But for the true aficionados<\/em> of their Summer University, don’t worry! There will also be the\u00a026th Edition of the Non\u00a0Solo Sole<\/em> Summer University.<\/p>\n

Written by Erika Bettin, AEGEE-Venezia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Babbo Natale (the Italian name for Santa Claus) arrived a little late for AEGEE\u2013Salerno.\u00a0On December 29th, Network Commissioner Mattia Abis (AEGEE-Cagliari) sent an\u00a0email to the Rainbow Network (Italian-speaking, Maltese antennae and the Contact\u00a0of AEGEE\u2013 Europe in Lugano) announcing that the Southern Italian antenna was chosen\u00a0to host the Spring Network Meeting in 2014. It was not an easy decision for Mattia… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,397],"tags":[673,394,1230,1937],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21341"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21368,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21341\/revisions\/21368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}