The Juridical Commission (JC) will have a new Commissioner after being elected at Spring Agora 2020, which this year will take place fully online, because of the coronavirus crisis. One of the candidates for that position is Teodora Panuș, member of AEGEE-Chișinău since 2018 and Sub-commissioner of the JC since November 2019 and Sub-Commissioner of the Audit Commission since February 2020. We interviewed her about her programme and objectives for the term until 31st July 2020.
Hello, Teodora and thank you for your time to be interviewed. To start off, could you tell us a bit about yourself and your career in AEGEE?
Hey, thank you for interviewing me! I am Teo, from AEGEE-Chișinău, and I love wine, deadlines, and my dear Chișinău team. I joined AEGEE, after multiple tries, in February 2017 and have been active ever since, organising, helping or just going around local and European events.
You applied for this position to cover a period of two months. If we may know, why did you not go for the whole season?
Ha-ha, I have heard this question a lot lately. It is especially because of time commitments, I like doing a good job and do not want to assume that I will be able to give at least 80% of the needed attention to the Commission when I know that it will not happen. But if something changes by then, I will love to continue being part of the team.
What are the main lessons you have learnt of all your experiences in AEGEE until now and in which sense have they helped you with where you are now?
There are so many things I learned in the last years thanks to AEGEE, but the most important ones are – to be open to new ideas and ideologies, how to write proper emails, AEGEE’s time management and to never do a EuroTrip during Agora.
Not only in AEGEE, we notice you have been very active in the last years at a European and national level (Junior Chamber International (JCI) – Organiser ‘European Capitals Meeting 2018’ and founder of YOU Moldova – a mental health movement, National Youth Council, among others). What is the activity you enjoyed the most? What activity taught you most and why?
I always wanted to know more and show that age is actually just a number, so I just got involved in everything I was not supposed to, but choosing only one thing is hard. But I will probably go with YOU: it was an amazing experience, the first time I got to manage a team and actually do something good for the young people in Chișinău through workshops and informational campaigns on mental health, since it was not a thoroughly discussed topic at the time, with certified specialists in the topic, basically offering a safe space to young people to debate, and pose questions to the right people and get the proper answer.
In your programme you speak of working on the way the JC is perceived and viewed by the Network, a task already started with the current team. How do you intend to carry that out if you are elected? And in what sense do you want the JC to be perceived?
Working more on the visual perception of the JC means working more on its presence in the social media, comprehensibility to the Network and maybe we can add something to the educational part, as well as consulting the Network and answering its questions, and some other small gimmicky internal things. We are talking about a two month period at the end of the day. I cannot move mountains, but I will do my best.
In your programme you say you will work on the continuity of the Commission in case you are elected. Does it mean that the JC is in danger or perhaps that it undergoes interruptions? If so, how would you tackle this issue?
Oh, no, we are not in danger, we actually have an amazing team right now, and things are going smoothly! What I meant was essentially on the technical side and internal documents, as well as the ones which have already been added to GSuite templates.