Federica Soro

ACTive Local of October-AEGEE-Salerno: “Organising activities related to the Action Agenda/Strategic Plan could be a good recruiting strategy”

Last October, AEGEE Salerno organised an Erasmus+ project that contributed to the Focus Areas of Civic Education and European Citizenship. As recognition for such a wonderful project, they have been elected as ACTive Local of October. We talked to Sonia Della Sala, HR responsible of AEGEE-Salerno and co-coordinator of the project named “Erasmus nei Picentini”. She was the co-coordinator because… Read more →

Youth Development Month-Interviewing AEGEE Alumni: Maria Nomikou

In the occasion of the Youth Development month, the Youth Development Working Group reached out to four AEGEE alumni and interviewed them, with the intention to connect past, present and future of AEGEE. Here’s the fourth and last interview of the series: Maria Nomikou (formerly) from AEGEE-Athina and AEGEE-Zaragoza.    YDWG: Hello Maria, can you introduce yourself a bit? Maria:… Read more →

Youth Development Month-Interviewing AEGEE Alumni: Fabian Brüggeman

In the occasion of the Youth Development month, the Youth Development Working Group reached out to four AEGEE alumni and interviewed them, with the intention to connect past, present and future of AEGEE. Here’s the third interview of the series: Fabian Brüggeman (formerly) from AEGEE-Düsseldorf.    YDWG: Hello Fabian, can you introduce yourself a bit? Fabian: Sure! I’m living in… Read more →

Youth Development Month-Interviewing AEGEE Alumni: Simon de Hartog

In the occasion of the Youth Development month, the Youth Development Working Group reached out to four AEGEE alumni and interviewed them, with the intention to connect past, present and future of AEGEE. Here’s the second interview of the series: Simon de Hartog (formerly) from AEGEE-Enschede.    YDWG: Hello Simon, can you introduce yourself a bit? Simon: Currently I am… Read more →

Youth Development Month-Interviewing AEGEE Alumni: Berat Ezel

In the occasion of the Youth Development month, the Youth Development Working Group reached out to four AEGEE alumni and interviewed them, with the intention to connect past, present and future of AEGEE. Here’s the first interview of the series: Berat Ezel (formerly) from AEGEE-Izmir.   YDWG: Hello Berat, can you introduce yourself a bit? Berat: I am a volunteer,… Read more →

ACTive Local of August-AEGEE Sofia: “People, Just Make Our Network Great Again!”

AEGEE Sofia has been chosen as ACTive Local of the Month, because during August they organised an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange, and a SU that matters in collaboration with the Civic Education Working Group. We interviewed Elitsa Hadzhieva, president of AEGEE Sofia to know more about those wonderful activities and the local.   ACT: Which emotions did you have when you… Read more →

Discrimination0: a Successful Cooperation between AEGEE-Dresden, AEGEE-Lviv and AEGEE-Moskva

“Discrimination0”, the project organised by AEGEE-Lviv, AEGEE-Dresden and AEGEE-Moskva has already come to its end. The project consisted of two parts which took place in Ukraine and Germany in the format of youth exchange. The main goal of the event – promoting tolerance and unity for building a society free of any kind of discrimination and stereotypes.   The first part took… Read more →

Citizenship at its Grassroots: a Talk about Democracy and the Rule of Law in Warsaw

AEGEE-Warszawa and the European Citizenship Working Group have great things in store for this spring. With Citizenship at its Grassroots-European and Polish Perspectives, they want to explore the current situation of democracy and the rule of law in Europe and Poland during a three-days event in March. We reached out to Patrycja Figarska, from AEGEE-Warszawa, and Álvaro González Pérez and Jasmin… Read more →

Gunnar Erth: AEGEE Needs Ideas, Inspiration and Skills to Put Ideas into Practice!

I’m sure that attending your first statutory event, especially Agora, was a great experience, but at the same time quite a shock; seeing 700 to 1000 AEGEEans gathered for the general assembly of our association, meeting your friends from all over Europe and of course making new ones. While every Agora is different, with a different location, different Chair teams,… Read more →

Attending the General Assembly of IFMSA in Spain: a Report from Alejandra

Dear reader, I’m Alejandra, member of AEGEE since four years ago and, currently, one of the members from the pool of representatives of AEGEE-Europe. Between the 10th and 14 of October, I’ve attended the General Assembly of IFMSA- Spain (International Federation of Medical Students Associations).  For me, having the opportunity to be there, participate and give everything I could to… Read more →