The importance of Visa discussed at Agora Budapest
The Visa Freedom Working Group (VFWG) is – according to some people in AEGEE – a “very important part of the organisation.” However, after more than 1,5 years I do not have this feeling anymore. During the workshop (WS) of the Visa Freedom Working Group at the Autumn Agora Budapest, we raised an interesting and important topic of AEGEE – a topic that… Read more →
The Internet is (not) free in Azerbaijan
Since the discussion about whether or not the internet is a human right is ongoing in AEGEE, I’d like to share with you my latest eastern observations on this issue. I’ve recently read a letter published by Emin Milli, an Azerbaijani blogger and youth activist, in The Independent (source: article). I expect that most of us imagine his statement should… Read more →
No Chance for Politics: Ways for Youth to overcome Information Pressure in Conflict Zones
Have you ever thought about the effect you can produce with an update of your Facebook status? A workshop delivered by Nikolay Kazantsev from AEGEE-Moscow covered one of the most important parts of peacemaking for conflict zones in Europe – resistance to nationalistic propaganda and information pressure from the official media, and declared a way that AEGEE members could contribute to… Read more →
Are You Stranger than a Stranger?
We are going a little bit back in time – to Friday, November the second, the day when the Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) had its first official workshop in a statutory event. This workshop was titled exactly the same as this article: Are you stranger than a stranger? The word “stranger” when mentioned for the first time refers to… Read more →
Project Management Workshop at the Autumn Agora Budapest
Our workshop provided the basics of project management to our participants. Our participants first got to understand what project management is, and what consists a project team. We have provided our participants a toolkit for project management, going through the most basic notions about project life cycle or presenting different schemes for structuring ideas. We have introduced examples of useful… Read more →
Results of the Agora Budapest Workshop ‘How Strategic Planning can help your Local or Project
‘If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got’ was the motto the workshop ‘Awaken the vision’ started off with. The idea behind this slogan was that when you continuously take the same road, you will keep ending up in the same place instead of moving forward to a better or different place. This goes… Read more →
Round Table on Social Inclusion – They called me NEET
Two weeks before the Agora I attended a Round Table organised by the European Youth Forum in the European Parliament, focused on the repercussion of youth unemployment for social inclusion. The high unemployment rates among the youth is not fresh news anymore; we have heard the figures so many times they do not scare us anymore. But I was shocked when the… Read more →
The Real Safeguard of Democracy is Education
On the 31st of October 2012, people from all over Europe assembled in Budapest to attend the Autumn Agora 2012. Of course the Eastern Partnership Project (EaP) was also present there! With a total of six people, we represented our team and increased the visibility of EaP among AEGEE members. Highlights were the AEGEE fair where we held a special… Read more →
The story behind the new AEGEE-Helsinki T-shirt
Some of you might have seen promotion of the T-shirt on Facebook or during Autumn Agora Budapest and now you’ll hear the story behind. First of all, I have to thank the person behind AEGEE-Zaragoza’s “I <3 Jamón” T-Shirt. For me, it’s the most brilliant idea to gain visibility for your antenna which I have seen in AEGEE. Without that… Read more →