During the Spring Agora Patra, six new members of the NetCom were elected, namely: Ana Potočnik (AEGEE-Ljubljana), Balázs Kovács (AEGEE-Debrecen), Burak Topaloğlu (AEGEE-Eskisehir), Lia Tuska (AEGEE-Sofia), Maria Arends (AEGEE-Groningen) and Natalia Ivleva (AEGEE-Voronezh). After the resignation of Holger Schmitt, newly elected member of Comité Directeur, Julia Fuss (AEGEE-Mannheim) got assigned the job of NetCom Assistant until the next Agora. The… Read more →
With the recent announcement about the abdication of Spanish king Juan Carlos I in favor of his son Crown Prince Felipe, the reoccurring debate about monarchies in Europe was stirred up again. The main question for all countries with a royal family is: Monarchy or Republic? In other words: to royal or not to royal? Currently, there are twelve sovereign… Read more →
In 2013 the Europe on Track project got launched, sending out young people to cross the European continent searching for answers to questions like: ‘Why should more young people become actors in the European Project?’ and ‘How can we get young people more engaged in the European agenda?’ The project turned out to be a huge success, even winning the… Read more →
This year, a total of 3312 SU applicants made their choice amongst the 80 available Summer Universities. Among those, five of them stood out, having far more than 100 applications. It won’t be a surprise that we are talking about AEGEE-Cagliari & AEGEE-Napoli’s ‘La vita è bella: Mediterranean coast to coast’ managed to gather 184 applications, but AEGEE-Peiraias’ ‘Sea Wars:… Read more →
A few months ago, the Environmental Working Group (EnWG) launched their new action, called GO GREEN, with asking for environmental issues as its main goal. To do this, the EnWG organises a social Skype meeting about a determined theme. In the meeting they share advices and ideas, which locals can use to organise their own workshops, discussions or seminars or… Read more →
In 1985 Leiden was among the founding locals of AEGEE, and ever after it has never stopped to exist or amaze the Network. Last May they didn’t only organize a very successful Week of Europe to gain attention for the European Elections, but next to that they also managed to organise a NWM in April. Reason enough to name them… Read more →
Are you active within AEGEE-Europe? If you answered yes, you are also a youth worker, because you are a volunteer working on the youth field. By doing this, you do not only help other young people develop, but you also improve yourself, although you can’t prove that you gained these competences. For this, AEGEE-Europe set up the COY project, together… Read more →
After six years of a Visa Facilitation Agreement (meaning a lower visa fee and simplification of visa procedures) between the EU and Moldova, on the 3rd of April the Council of the European Union granted Moldova with a visa-free travel regime. After the visa liberalisation dialogue that started in 2010 and encouraged Moldova to successfully implement many reforms like strengthening… Read more →
In May 2014 a new tool to rank universities got published, under the name U-multirank. With seed funding from the European Union, a consortium headed by Dr. Frans van Vught of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) and Dr. Frank Ziegele of the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) developed a tool that covers more than 850 higher education… Read more →
The Ukrainian crisis has dominated the news in the past months. In order to show a European perspective on the situation, AEGEE-Nijmegen organised a debate night, with a broad panel of academics, policy makers and of course AEGEEans from Ukraine. The debate, titled ‘Ukraine Rising: perspectives of a European (r)Evolution’, took place on May 14th and was the kick-off for… Read more →
