{"id":6196,"date":"2012-04-10T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=6196"},"modified":"2012-04-10T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T16:04:17","slug":"goodbye-borders-hello-aegee-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/04\/10\/goodbye-borders-hello-aegee-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye borders, hello AEGEE passport!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travelling to my first Agora in Skopje I did not know how things work during such an event.\u00a0 I went to the AEGEE Fair because that seemed real fun even for an \u201eAgora beginner\u201d like me. People standing around and answering your every question sound like a good deal.\u00a0 On my way walking amidst the excited crowd of the Fair, I met a smiling couple selling some kind of \u00a0little blue notebooks. They caught my attention and I queued.<\/em><\/p>\n

A couple of minutes and some euros later I already held my own original AEGEE passport in my hands. I was not the only one who believed it would be a nice activity to collect stickers from other antennae and, in return, give a sticker from my antenna to them. This is how I crossed 12 borders in one hour.<\/strong> This almost sounds like a Guinness record. Needless to say, this little document also is a perfect conversation starter with pretty AEGEE boys \u00a0and girls who you otherwise would not know how to get closer to.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“Hello darling, nice sticker, wanna exchange?\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can try this trick yourself during the nex Agora, but before read some new things you probably did not know about AEGEE passport yet. Dane Linssen (AEGEE-Delft), the designer famous for his never-ending smile, will tell you how it all started.<\/p>\n

How old is the idea of the AEGEE passport?<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea of the passport apparently is some years old. Michele (Mickey) Turati from AEGEE-Brescia came up with it, but his local unfortunately did not have the resources to invest in it and put the idea into practise.<\/p>\n

How did you get involved in this?<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea stayed an idea for some years, and then Mickey told Network Commissioner Koen Berghuis about it. That is when the idea relived. Koen was wondering if maybe AEGEE-Delft would have the financial freedom to make such a big investment. So when Koen visited Delft, we had a beer together and he told me about Mickey’s idea. I was very enthusiastic of course and I worked really hard to make everything work. It was hard as I was short on time, just a couple weeks before Agora Skopje -and it was a very expensive idea, too- but it worked out!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It has become a huge success in a very short time. How many passports did you produce and how many have you sold so far?<\/em><\/p>\n

We produced 500, and we sold them all! That is why we are working on a second batch of passports right now. We want to distribute them during the Agora Enschede and we are aiming to make new version better than the first version.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Nice job, Dane! Is there anything you would like to add to the creation and designing of the passport?<\/em><\/p>\n

I would like to add that the AEGEE passport is ultimately destined to be a gadget created by the network and for the network. I want to emphasize that AEGEE-Delft does not make a profit from the sales of the passports. Anyone’s input is always welcome and will be incorporated as much as possible. As a matter of fact, I am already working together with Andra Nicu from AEGEE-Ploiesti to get even better results.<\/p>\n

If you like AEGEE passport or the possibilities behind it, choose it as Best Merchandise of the AEGEEans Choice Awards 2012!<\/p>\n

Written by Kata Szab\u00f3, AEGEE-Piliscsaba\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travelling to my first Agora in Skopje I did not know how things work during such an event.\u00a0 I went to the AEGEE Fair because that seemed real fun even for an \u201eAgora beginner\u201d like me. People standing around and answering your every question sound like a good deal.\u00a0 On my way walking amidst the excited crowd of the Fair,… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":6212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[339,5],"tags":[403,404,402,406,322,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}