Some days before the Agora took place in Enschede, Comité Directeur announced the host of the Spring Agora 2013. The result is: It will not be one local, nor two… no! It will be seven locals: AEGEE-Darmstadt, AEGEE-Frankfurt, AEGEE-Heidelberg, AEGEE-Kaiserslautern, AEGEE-Karlsruhe, AEGEE-Mainz-Wiesbaden and AEGEE-Mannheim! Each one of these locals is too small and has too few members to ever host… Read more →
The need for quality events with good thematic content has been long recognised in AEGEE and last year, the Events Committee (EVC) was created to help the event organisers achieve just that. As the next step, the EVC decided to organise a workshop at this Agora to create a discussion amongst members from different locals about what makes a good… Read more →
Media, Arabs, culture, fun and so many experiences. I do not even know how to start. I will just say that everything was so good and lovely that it took me some time to come back to everyday reality and write this article. An article about an amazing week spent in Krakow during the EuroArab Project. An explosive mixture of… Read more →
On the 23rd of November 2011, the European Commission officially presented the proposal of “Erasmus for All” (E4A), the new program that will replace our beloved “Youth in Action” for upcoming years 2014-2020, gathering the areas of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth in one same program. As you might be aware, the current Youth in Action (which is the Program… Read more →
At the European Union’s Youth Conference in Sorø, Denmark (18-21 March 2012), European youth representatives gathered together to voice their follower’s views on European youth policies. National Youth Councils and youth organisations had asked their followers and supporters beforehand to give their opinion about this presidency’s special focus on “creativity and innovation.” Every EU presidency’s cycle, a conference is held… Read more →
Who are the Events Committee (EVC) and what do they do? Look no further, the answers to these questions are right here: As AEGEEans we strive for many things – European integration, peace and stability, making education better for young people and many more. We tend to externalise all of these things in many ways, but one of the most… Read more →
In AEGEE, April is one of the hardest months of the year. You not only have to decide what to wear, drink and for whom to vote at the upcoming Agora, but also for which Summer University (SU) you want to apply. In 2012, 82 teams of SU organizers are fighting for your attention. They have already been planning for up to half… Read more →
Did you ever think we are stuck, as an organisation, and need to reach a decisive turning point? Well, some AEGEE members have been thinking about this! What did they do? They met up at our head office in Brussels, in order to discuss some of the difficulties we are currently facing. They stated that our current structure, where we have a full-time board of seven people living in Brussels, is perhaps not the best way… Read more →
Do you want to know if there will be the space and opportunity for young people and youth organizations to develop in the EU? On the 27th March, the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) organised a public hearing to discuss about the future Education and Youth programme and the proposal of “Erasmus for All”. The Members of the European… Read more →
Who said that contributing to the thematic priorities of AEGEE was difficult ? It is high time every member realises that words as « Strategic Plan » and « Action Agenda » are just complicated phrases which actually hide a simple reality : if we want AEGEE to have a bigger impact and to have shown internal and external coherence in its activities, we… Read more →
