{"id":37140,"date":"2016-10-26T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=37140"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:07:41","slug":"active-local-of-the-month-of-may-aegee-hamburg-aegee-can-only-make-a-change-when-we-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2016\/10\/26\/active-local-of-the-month-of-may-aegee-hamburg-aegee-can-only-make-a-change-when-we-work-together\/","title":{"rendered":"ACTive Local of the Month of May AEGEE-Hamburg \u201cAEGEE Can Only Make a Change When We Work Together\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last May, AEGEE-Hamburg\u00a0organised\u00a0the film event \u201cMoving Europe\u201d, which was directly connected with the Action Agenda. For this reason, they were chosen as the ACTive Local of the Month. We spoke to David Kn\u00f6ner, President of the local, to find out more! <\/em><\/p>\n

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\"12108033_935060923242134_4872775596603524917_n\"ACT: Congratulations! As we would like to get to know this month’s winner, could you tell us a bit more about your local?<\/strong>
\nDavid: <\/strong>AEGEE-Hamburg\u00a0is a very old association, even older than AEGEE itself [jokingly, ed.]. We had some golden periods in the past, but are currently struggling as the last boards did not care about recruitment anymore. Therefore, our main efforts go into making the antenna visible again and gaining new members. Luckily, we get some awesome support from other antennae, especially Berlin and Groningen.<\/p>\n

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You have\u00a0organised\u00a0the film event “Moving Europe” and a workshop that contributed to the Action Agenda. Can you tell us more about your events?<\/strong>
\nTo be honest, besides some few local events like Moving Europe or two days of AEGEE-Berlin\u2019s SU, there is not that much happening in\u00a0Hamburg. This is a result of a huge lack of activities and we are working hard to change this.<\/p>\n

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Why did you decide to\u00a0organise\u00a0this workshop and event?<\/strong>
\nThis event takes place annually. Its aim is to get young people interested in European topics in an entertaining way. There are a lot of European events happening here, but they are mostly attended by the same, old people. So we try to do something about that, together with the European Affairs Department of the city and state of Hamburg, Creative Europe Desk\u00a0Hamburg\u00a0and varying other youth organisations.\u00a0This year a lot of big changes are happening in Europe, e.g. nationalist movements, the refugee \u201ccrisis\u201d, etc. It is challenging most people\u2019s basic views and opinions on Europe. So we agreed on making the topic as fundamental as possible, and that is European identity. And it was kind of obvious to link this topic to refugees.<\/p>\n

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\"10262102_644004079014488_6448492814180769601_n\"What was the result?<\/strong>
\nAlmost all seats in the cinema were taken, but unfortunately the majority of guests weren’t as young as we had wished.\u00a0We think it is easy to make people happy when you preview an award winning movie and offer free snacks and drinks, so the general happiness indicator was quite sufficient, we would say. We saw a lot of lively discussions during the break and afterwards, so we guess we actually made people think.<\/p>\n

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Why do you think the Action Agenda is important for the Network, and what would you say to other locals that are thinking about organising something related to the Action Agenda?<\/strong>
\nEurope needs a strong AEGEE, now more than ever. But AEGEE can only make a change when we work together. We have to actually be one team of 13 000 people. And that is why we have to agree on common goals and measure sets, noted down in the Strategic Plan and the Action Agenda. If every antenna just does what they think is right, we have 170 different, small, irrelevant organisations which do not change a thing.<\/p>\n

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Do you have any other big plans for the upcoming months?<\/strong>
\nWe are planning a huge recruitment campaign for the start of next semester, including online campaigns, stands, flyers in every important canteen, lecture hall presentations, introduction events, two exchanges and a Local Training Course. If this goes well, we will implement a new local events series and organise a content European event for next year. If not, AEGEE-Hamburg\u00a0will be closed down.<\/p>\n

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\"1098464_506114019470162_52783365_n\"AEGEE-Hamburg\u00a0has certainly shown to the Network that it can be an example to other locals. What would you say to other locals that want to be as awesome as you?<\/strong>
\nWe don\u2019t think any local would want to be like us, because the antenna is in existential danger. We would rather like people to see AEGEE-Hamburg\u2019s development in the last years as an example of how not to do it.\u00a0Because we see a lot of antennae organising some nice events, but that is it. Like AEGEE-Hamburg\u00a0did. Three years ago, we had a Top-5-SU, even last year we still had a great Network Meeting.<\/p>\n

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It is always the same, experienced people, sometimes someone new walks in through the door. But more and more people leave and there will come a point where the local is not viable anymore. We were and are pretty close to that point, because the last boards didn\u2019t care about recruitment.\u00a0So we can only try to remind people that recruitment is the most important thing for any student organisation. We need every local we have to survive, because Europe needs us. Now and in the future! The less we do for it, the more room opens for nationalists.<\/p>\n

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Which sentence would describe your local and your event?<\/strong>
\nTrying not to die; trying to still do cool stuff while trying not to die.<\/p>\n

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Written by the Action Agenda Coordination Committee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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