{"id":39175,"date":"2017-02-17T14:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=39175"},"modified":"2017-02-17T01:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:48:13","slug":"cd-on-track-reka-is-in-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2017\/02\/17\/cd-on-track-reka-is-in-toulouse\/","title":{"rendered":"CD on Track: R\u00e9ka is in Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the biggest student festival an AEGEE local has organised to redrawing the structure of AEGEE: reasons why AEGEE-Toulouse<\/a>\u00a0is the odd one out, but in the best possible way!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I was excited to go to Toulouse not only because of the Erasmus Student Festival I have heard about previously, but also because in the AEGEE context, we know that the French-speaking part of the network has been going through difficult times. There are great people in Lille, Paris, Lyon and Toulouse, but how can we really anchor the work of our organisation for the long-term when the French student society already accommodates so many other organisations?<\/p>\n

We can start focusing on fewer things from the \u201ceverything\u201d that AEGEE tends to do, and anchor ourselves with impressive results our work can bring. And this is exactly what AEGEE-Toulouse has been doing recently. The antenna has been on the rise for the last two\u00a0years especially, and they even openly talked about how being downgraded to a contact antenna in Agora Ky\u0457v has actually given them the chance to grow: with less criteria to follow, they could focus on building themselves stronger.<\/p>\n

The spirit of AEGEE-Toulouse is definitely coming from the unofficial headquarters of Karim and Khaled, where members meetings, board meetings and all the \u201ccrazy ideas brainstorming\u201d is a frequent thing. We always needed that element of crazyness in AEGEE, haven\u2019t we? An idea like the Erasmus Student Festival<\/a>\u00a0that was born two\u00a0years ago, collecting 2000 local and Erasmus students in an open air festival. 2016 counted close to 6000 participants and in 2017, AEGEE-Toulouse with the support of the city hall is getting ready for 10.000 people, setting up the festival to be the biggest celebration event of 30 years of Erasmus<\/a>.<\/p>\n