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 many changes to the initial plan, moving from one local to another and lots of discussions, the Spring Network Meeting was announced to be organized by AEGEE-Lviv, who organized the NWM a year ago too. To be honest, there were no discussions anymore, only happiness that this event would finally happen. It was important for our Network to meet… 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 →
Few weeks ago, The AEGEEan family saw Marije Arentze (AEGEE-Leiden) resigning for her role of Editor of the Network section. After an internal open call, Svenja van der Tol was elected as the new Editor. To keep up with the tradition, she is from the Netherlands too, being a member of AEGEE-Nijmegen. The AEGEEan: Svenja, describe yourself! Svenja: I’d love… Read more →
A tragedy invested the city of Soma, in Turkey, where, on the 13th of May, the local coal mine suffered by an explosion, and a consequent fire, during a shift change in the afternoon. At the moment of the explosion, two kilometers underground, more than 700 miners where at work. The blast and the fire, that lasted for at least… 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 →
During Spring Agora Patra two new Contacts were announced to the Network, namely the Contacts in Dresden and Podgorica. The AEGEEan spoke with the founders of the new Contacts, Jorge Sánchez Hernández and Filip Rasovic to find out more about these new additions to the AEGEE network. Jorge Sánchez Hernández became a member of AEGEE-Alicante in April 2013 to go… Read more →
