This month the Local of the Month is granted to AEGEE-Utrecht. Being a big local with 340 members requires a lot of responsibility and attention and still AEGEE-Utrecht managed to focus on both organising a Pre-Agora event together with AEGEE-Amsterdam and the final Where Does Europe End (WDEE) conference while also managing events in connection with the celebration of their 25th… Read more →
You know them… You have seen them before… Where? In Skopje and most recently at Agora Enschede where they were approved as a new contact. Their name Kastoria, contact Kastoria! The AEGEEan interviewed Nicholas Varveris, the founder of the new Greek contact. 1) So congratulations for the new contact! Now the question everyone is dying to know the answer to – whose idea was it to… Read more →
As you might know, four new locals signed the Convention d’Adhésion in the last Spring Agora Enschede: AEGEE-Sumqayit, AEGEE-Lanzarote, AEGEE-Sevilla, and AEGEE-Rostov-na-Donu. Let us focus our attention on a beautiful town in Andalucía, Spain: Sevilla! You might know Seville, the capital of the autonomous community of Andalucía, for the beauty of its university founded in 1505, or for the numerous… Read more →
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.” Abrahah J. Heschel (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) For a long time before starting this article, I was thinking about how to start it, and at last I have not found anything better than to just take a quote of Abraham Heschel, who… Read more →
It all took place in a breathtaking area of natural beauty. Suffice it to say opposite the seductive charm of Capri, Sorrento, and Vesuvio. For thousands of years Napoli has been the place that attracted a great deal of visitors to visit the imprint of the successive cultures. This year, AEGEE-Napoli made a breakthrough with its ancestors by inviting over… Read more →
Dutchies and their suits. It is a combination like bread and butter and being in the city of Enschede, you will probably find yourself surrounded by suits, ties, dress-shirts and even the occasional tailcoat. Admired and ridiculed alike, this tradition is more than just another wacky expression of local culture. The habit of students suiting up for meetings, workshops and… Read more →
On a boring Sunday, while watching a documentary about climate change, I came up with the idea to calculate how much I have contributed to this phenomenon. As we in AEGEE are all avid travellers, keen on exploring other countries and meeting our friends all over Europe again, I started to calculate how polluting all my flights I ever took… Read more →
Starting any visa process in AEGEE is like a lottery – you never know how organisers will behave, how attentively the visa officer will look at your documentation, and what will you get in your passport in the end. After Agora Skopje we all had a sad experience in visa issues, when no Caucasian locals were able to attend the Agora… Read more →
Last term there was a female speaker, and a large number of female representatives in the Network Commission. Then at the Agora Enschede we saw that this tendency would most likely continue with the division of eight female and two male candidates for the Network Commission. In the end six out of the eight ladies were elected and if you… Read more →
“Let’s create the Party Hard Working Group” was the Facebook Status update from AEGEE-Oviedo member Gerardo García Díaz, and in the blink of an eye the “(Unnofficial) Party Hard Working Group” was created! This Working Group (WG) was started by Gerardo García Díaz from AEGEE-Oviedo, Zoi from AEGEE-Athina and Beata Matuszka from AEGEE-Budapest who all took part in the AEGEE-Oviedo… Read more →
