{"id":6596,"date":"2012-04-25T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T06:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2012-04-25T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T19:17:26","slug":"did-you-ever-think-aegee-needs-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/04\/25\/did-you-ever-think-aegee-needs-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you ever think AEGEE needs a change?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever think\u00a0we are stuck, as an organisation, and need to reach a\u00a0decisive\u00a0turning point?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well,\u00a0some AEGEE members\u00a0have been thinking\u00a0about this! What did they do? They met up at our head office in Brussels,\u00a0in order to discuss some of the difficulties we are\u00a0currently\u00a0facing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They stated that\u00a0our current structure,\u00a0where we have a\u00a0full-time\u00a0board\u00a0of seven people\u00a0living in Brussels,\u00a0is perhaps not the best way to do it. At the moment, the Comit\u00e9 Directeur (CD) has\u00a0too much paper work, and not enough time for thematic work, they live too far from the network, and moving to Brussels for a whole year is often keeping capable people away from applying for the CD.<\/p>\n

But they also realised this is\u00a0a tricky subject\u00a0to deal with.<\/p>\n

Should these seven members of the Board of Directors\u00a0mainly\u00a0have to\u00a0deal with administrative and paper work in order to sustain the organisation? Or should they be leading\u00a0the organisation\u00a0and focusing on\u00a0the\u00a0thematic and policy making levels?\u00a0These are some of the questions which came to people’s mind\u00a0during the weekend.<\/p>\n

Of course, they did not only discuss the problems. They also started looking for some possible solutions. One of these solutions would be to split the CD into a smaller administrative secretariat led by a hired Secretary General in Brussels, and a thematic board living at home, somewhere in Europe, which travels all over the network.\u00a0This would\u00a0increase the\u00a0professionalism\u00a0of\u00a0our dear AEGEE Baby,\u00a0as everybody would be able to focus on their tasks better.<\/p>\n

Moreover,\u00a0this could bring the CD much closer to the network and the local level, as they would not be so far away in Brussels.\u00a0And with a renewed\u00a0focus on the policy making level and the thematic world, CD members could help\u00a0AEGEE have a real impact on society again,\u00a0like we did have in our glorious past.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0moving (most of) the CD out\u00a0of the CD house\u00a0in Brussels, which is consuming a great part of our budget, and rethinking its entire structure, could have\u00a0a\u00a0very strong\u00a0impact\u00a0on the association.\u00a0It is the way in which a number of our partners works, e.g. BEST (Board of European Students of Technology<\/a>) or ESN (Erasmus Student Network<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But is it really the best way? Or are there other and better solutions to these problems? Let\u00a0the brainstorming\u00a0begin! Obviously, the association itself is looking for a change! Do you want to join the adventure and face this challenge with us?<\/p>\n

Get in contact with the team and\u00a0help us to answer this question:\u00a0What structural change would you propose as a solution \u00a0to the functional problems of the CD and our network?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the super heroes who come to the rescue: Manos Valasis (AEGEE-Peiraias), Alfredo Sellitti (AEGEE-Salerno), Alma Mozgovaja (AEGEE-Riga), \u00a0Julien Penalba (AEGEE-Paris), Alla Resheten (AEGEE-Kyiv),\u00a0Miguel Gallardo (AEGEE-Alicante), Maurtis Korse (AEGEE-Enschede), Wessel Reijers (AEGEE-Enschede), Marko Grdosic (AEGEE-Zagreb), Mirek Krzanik (AEGEE-Krakow), Philip Von Klitzng (Honorary member of AEGEE-Europe), Mathieu Soete (AEGEE-Leuven) and Luis Alvarado Martinez (AEGEE-Las Palmas).<\/p>\n

They will meet you at\u00a0AGORA Enschede<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Your Structure Reform Team.<\/p>\n

Written by Luis Alvarado Martinez, AEGEE-Las Palmas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever think\u00a0we are stuck, as an organisation, and need to reach a\u00a0decisive\u00a0turning point? Well,\u00a0some AEGEE members\u00a0have been thinking\u00a0about this! What did they do? They met up at our head office in Brussels,\u00a0in order to discuss some of the difficulties we are\u00a0currently\u00a0facing. They stated that\u00a0our current structure,\u00a0where we have a\u00a0full-time\u00a0board\u00a0of seven people\u00a0living in Brussels,\u00a0is perhaps not the best way… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[379,380,431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6596"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6596\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}