> The Youth in Action Programme for years has supported and financed young people all over the continent, and in some cases also outside of it. For yours it has been the biggest youth fund, which allowed hundreds of thousands of youngsters, students and young graduates to explore other cultures, other countries, to work and volunteer abroad, to share their… Read more →
> On a short note: What is nationalism? Nationalism is a way of thinking. That’s a stupid phrase to start an article with, but I can’t put it more accurately; nationalism is a way of ‘thinking the world’. This is what we learn at school: The world consists of countries. All land on this earth is divided into national states.… Read more →
Apparently it is a cyclical phenomenon that Antennae from the Netherlands have a go at Brussels and honour us with their presence. After the very enjoyable ambush we suffered in November, half a year later we have the next series of visitors from the North. Starting last weekend, 27th-30th May, with AEGEE-Groningen. Traditionally, visits to Brussels comprise three main elements:… Read more →
AEGEE Network Meeting Catania, Italy Network Commission & AEGEE-Catania 19th – 22nd of May, 2011 One of the spring network meetings in 2011 was organized in the beautiful Sicilian city – Catania. Professional and well-organized team from AEGEE-Catania prepared truly an amazing event.Together with their netcommie Pierre and with a group of trainers (apart from me and Pierre, there was… Read more →
Together with members of AEGEE-Budapest, AEGEE-Debrecen, AEGEE-Piliscsaba and AEGEE-Pécs, Alfredo and me represented AEGEE at the 2nd EU-Level Thematic Conference for the European Year of Volunteering 2011 that took place in Brussels this Monday and Tuesday, 23rd-24th May. I must admit that the main insight won during this conference was not what I had expected or hoped for. Originally planned… Read more →
Last week I took a ride home to Freiburg from Köln with a guy who offered to share his car for a few bananas. On that day, there was a huge demonstration organised by the right wing “Pro Köln” movement against the construction of the great new mosque in one of the more traditional districts of the city. I was… Read more →
The Spring Agora Alicante is over. It was our last Agora in charge, and all of us are a bit nostalgic these days. It is exactly like Miguel G. A. said when he was announced as honorary member of AEGEE-Alicante on the Agora stage: Some things are given to you that you just cannot give back, even if you do… Read more →
Previous week end I’ve spend in really nice small student city in Germany – Tubingen. Why? I will tell you in this post. So on Friday I’ve left CD house at 5.30 am in order to catch train to Aachen. After traveling for 9 hours around Germany and making 6 changes I’ve finally arrived to Tubingen to attend Network meeting… Read more →
A reaction to “Young people: Do we need them?” by Andy Carling http://www.neurope.eu/articles/105469.php Youth – the key player and the future of society. Today more often than ever before youth as a generation is being supported and started to form a very specific division of society somewhere between children and so-called adulthood. Sociologists have started to develop a new nomenclature… Read more →
As you may know, AEGEE is a member of IFISO – Informal Forum of International Student Organizations (http://ifiso.org/) It is an informal platform gathering more than 25 NGOs (mostly European, but also worldwide) IFISO meets twice a year, always in autumn and in spring and representatives from different NGOs (mostly members of international boards or liaison officers) are getting together… Read more →
