tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50605982704816906242012-01-27T16:46:24.062+01:00Jüri Kirpuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325158058735555445noreply@blogger.comBlogger2581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-8717111019621456062011-09-26T16:22:00.014+02:002011-09-29T12:28:18.927+02:00

"I object to violence because when it appears to do well, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent" says Ghandi. How many times that statement has been proved to be true recently? How many times we have witnessed how bloody the hand of so called good could be? Our generation has been watching the Arab World like a movie. We have been witnessing an epoch-making year

Jüri Kirpuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16325158058735555445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-67615233791664595762011-09-08T12:40:00.000+02:002011-09-08T12:40:37.737+02:00

Lower picture l.t.r: Manos, Anya, Thomas, Mirka, Michi, Alla, Alfredo, Mirek Dear Network, dear friends, for us it was a wonderful year full of pleasent and extreme experiences, full of challanges, idealism and the big motivation to simply devote all of our time for AEGEE and you in order to move the association forward. Much of our work was just administrative, some of it had to be

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-1463376891930623602011-08-27T16:33:00.000+02:002011-08-31T15:46:58.399+02:00

Imagine a nice weekend in the end of August: beautiful blue sky, extremely hot weather, sunny days - lazy days... I guess that you can imagine yourself having fun on the beach in Spain, enjoying Italian sun, hiking in Austrian mountains or hitch-hiking with Dutchies around Europe. But now, try to imagine a bunch of crazy AEGEE people, gathered in the high school gym in the middle of nowhere in

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-74529197693990956092011-08-23T21:17:00.007+02:002011-08-31T15:46:07.570+02:00

There is some kind of noise coming from up, that slowly starts-up my brain. At first I'm still not aware of what it actually is. After a minute it becomes louder and starts to get more and more annoying. Then people start talking and wake me up completely. Feeling every step from the office upstairs, as the ceiling was about to crash, makes me jump out of my sleeping bag and run into the bathroom

Markohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07343882432855675176noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-1029918270493717572011-07-14T03:24:00.005+02:002011-07-15T17:31:22.676+02:00

I am officially living in Brussels, but I cannot really say that I feel like an 'inhabitant' here. And this feeling led me to an observation recently that I find rather striking. To most of my friends I have always stated that I like Brussels, and from one side this is true - it has a nice architecture, not spectacular but cozy, subtle. But from another perspective I have come to fundamentally

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-10242298442233804442011-06-20T18:03:00.001+02:002011-06-20T18:07:30.233+02:00

European Stories Intellectual Debates on Europe in National Contexts Last week there was a very interesting debate organized by the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which I attended together with Thomas. The debate was about the new book called “European Stories” which was edited by Justine Lacroix (Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Kalypso Nicolaidis (Professor of

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-41056065633278161572011-06-07T17:28:00.003+02:002011-06-07T17:32:18.693+02:00

The Youth in Action Programme for years has supported and financed young people all over the continent, and in some cases also outside of it. For yours it has been the biggest youth fund, which allowed hundreds of thousands of youngsters, students and young graduates to explore other cultures, other countries, to work and volunteer abroad, to share their visions and develop project which aimed to

Mirek Krzaniknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-17516496635098004562011-06-02T17:31:00.006+02:002011-06-02T18:24:04.208+02:00

On a short note: What is nationalism?Nationalism is a way of thinking. That's a stupid phrase to start an article with, but I can't put it more accurately; nationalism is a way of 'thinking the world'. This is what we learn at school: The world consists of countries. All land on this earth is divided into national states. And these national states represent the people that live in it, at least in

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-36668714294917744402011-06-02T16:39:00.009+02:002011-06-19T23:57:19.942+02:00

Apparently it is a cyclical phenomenon that Antennae from the Netherlands have a go at Brussels and honour us with their presence. After the very enjoyable ambush we suffered in November, half a year later we have the next series of visitors from the North. Starting last weekend, 27th-30th May, with AEGEE-Groningen.Traditionally, visits to Brussels comprise three main elements: an educational one

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-14578359106782825372011-05-31T13:24:00.012+02:002011-06-07T15:30:10.691+02:00

AEGEE Network Meeting Catania, ItalyNetwork Commission & AEGEE-Catania19th – 22nd of May, 2011One of the spring network meetings in 2011 was organized in the beautiful Sicilian city – Catania. Professional and well-organized team from AEGEE-Catania prepared truly an amazing event.Together with their netcommie Pierre and with a group of trainers (apart from me and Pierre, there was also Milica

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-90840284128592504492011-05-25T16:11:00.009+02:002011-05-25T16:42:52.223+02:00

Together with members of AEGEE-Budapest, AEGEE-Debrecen, AEGEE-Piliscsaba and AEGEE-Pécs, Alfredo and me represented AEGEE at the 2nd EU-Level Thematic Conference for the European Year of Volunteering 2011 that took place in Brussels this Monday and Tuesday, 23rd-24th May.I must admit that the main insight won during this conference was not what I had expected or hoped for. Originally planned for

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-76455264430671246622011-05-16T23:34:00.001+02:002011-05-25T16:21:15.633+02:00

Last week I took a ride home to Freiburg from Köln with a guy who offered to share his car for a few bananas. On that day, there was a huge demonstration organised by the right wing "Pro Köln" movement against the construction of the great new mosque in one of the more traditional districts of the city. I was not even properly seated when my driver started off a discussion that should last for

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-48812397328261738612011-05-03T23:17:00.015+02:002011-05-25T16:22:01.474+02:00

The Spring Agora Alicante is over. It was our last Agora in charge, and all of us are a bit nostalgic these days. It is exactly like Miguel G. A. said when he was announced as honorary member of AEGEE-Alicante on the Agora stage: Some things are given to you that you just cannot give back, even if you do your best. You always gain more than you give, and this is what makes it such a wonderful

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-28582282064824442992011-04-18T17:04:00.003+02:002011-04-18T17:09:16.856+02:00

Previous week end I’ve spend in really nice small student city in Germany – Tubingen. Why? I will tell you in this post. So on Friday I’ve left CD house at 5.30 am in order to catch train to Aachen. After traveling for 9 hours around Germany and making 6 changes I’ve finally arrived to Tubingen to attend Network meeting which took place between 8th and 10th of April. This Network meeting

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-4135637537145550272011-04-01T02:00:00.001+02:002011-04-01T02:02:18.718+02:00

A reaction to "Young people: Do we need them?" by Andy Carling http://www.neurope.eu/articles/105469.php Youth - the key player and the future of society. Today more often than ever before youth as a generation is being supported and started to form a very specific division of society somewhere between children and so-called adulthood. Sociologists have started to develop a new nomenclature in

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-1593218919703728332011-03-24T17:51:00.010+01:002011-06-07T15:31:02.146+02:00

As you may know, AEGEE is a member of IFISO - Informal Forum of International Student Organizations (http://ifiso.org/)It is an informal platform gathering more than 25 NGOs (mostly European, but also worldwide)IFISO meets twice a year, always in autumn and in spring and representatives from different NGOs (mostly members of international boards or liaison officers) are getting together in order

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-700345767381241612011-03-16T11:56:00.001+01:002011-03-16T12:08:09.294+01:00

Agora Alicante is approaching (to be more precise we have just 41 days till it starts) and it means that it’s time to gather Chair team, Juridical Commission and Secretary General at one place for working on content part of the Agora.  In this blog post I will try to describe how we were working during Chair meeting in order to give you an image how Agora is usually prepared. So this time we’ve

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-76027390326650591972011-03-04T17:04:00.001+01:002011-03-05T12:35:51.131+01:00

CD House has a new inhabitant, and that is me - Kathrin Renner :). For the next two months, I'll be assisting CD and especially Mirek with Fundraising, and my main responsibility will be the Study Fair in Alicante.I came here for the first time in my life last Tuesday, when I dropped all of my stuff already before going to Riga on Wednesday, where I received my keys and met the CD team, many of

Kathrinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-52175748770646453932011-02-20T23:53:00.000+01:002011-02-20T23:53:48.463+01:00

The International Politics Working Group just held an Article Contest –  "Crisis in Europe: What could European youth do to help its society to solve this problem?", asking you to you to share with us any idea you might have on how the young people of our continent can take initiatives to overpass the current crisis at the economic, social and cultural level. Although some time has passed

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-90610753744554718062011-02-17T19:59:00.001+01:002011-06-07T15:32:21.318+02:00

First weekend of not-so-cold February was again very busy in CD house. AEGEE-Academy, together with CD and Chair met here for strategic planning meeting on human resources. Friday was arrival day, a bit of getting to know each other, cooking dinner and surprisingly, going to sleep quite early, so everybody would be fresh next morning. And it was needed for sure – we woke up at 8am on sunny

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-59797088997204602072011-02-01T12:43:00.005+01:002011-06-07T15:31:17.632+02:00

Dear AEGEE members!Right now, you are reading our AEGEE-Europe blog and I hope you like all our articles. And since you are reading this, you also have to see one special section on the right side of this blog – “Member of the Week” Why do we have this section? Because we know that we have a lot of great and active people in our network, who are doing perfect job for AEGEE and we think that

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-5211337859982544272010-12-22T13:49:00.001+01:002010-12-22T21:40:25.740+01:00

Dear Network, as every year it became reasonable cold in most parts of Europe, the snow fell and disabled most of the air, road and rail connections and similar to you, dear Network, we in Brussels are also preparing to leave for Christmas holidays! Also the CD needs some rest during the year and that is why the office will be officially closed between the *22nd of December 2010 and the 3rd of

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-30197848843557162022010-12-19T14:29:00.000+01:002010-12-19T14:29:14.914+01:00

The Web2.0 is an amazing thing that is surely not limited only to Twitter and Facebook. The biggest difference to the old Web is simply a fact that websites are not static pages with linear content, but can be whole applications that are sometimes that advances that they can replace pretty much of the offline software. Due to the fact that they are working entirely online, they are naturally

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-24303463042845028532010-12-13T01:38:00.007+01:002011-09-26T16:34:13.365+02:00

Dear Network, One of my tasks as the Financial Director is processing of all your reimbursement requests. According to CORPUS IURIDICUM AEGEENSE (CIA) some of costs you make as an active member of AEGEE are reimbursed to you. This mostly applies to travel costs to statutory events for people elected in various commissions, trips made by the Network Commissioners to visit locals they’re

Anya Petrovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-50356109062753383362010-12-10T05:05:00.005+01:002011-06-07T15:31:51.717+02:00

First weekend of December didn’t bring to Brussels only snow, but also the most (attr)active body in AEGEE – yes, I’m talking about AEGEE-Academy. Their board meeting in CD house started on Saturday, when ALL board members gathered in our cosy kitchen and had a nice dinner with us. After relaxed informal evening, we got up early on Sunday morning and started to work hard.Freezing weather

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-55046770838399372922010-12-07T19:57:00.002+01:002010-12-08T14:00:45.431+01:00

AEGEE-Praha & AEGEE2517-21.11.2010 Have you ever thought about Slavic World? How similar these 13 countries who are creating so called Slavic World? Do they have similar language, similar culture, similar history or even similar behavior?For all these questions we were trying to find a proper answer during AEGEE25 event in Prague “Looking for a Slavic World”. 23 participants from 16 countries, 5

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-87864746829561594842010-12-03T15:48:00.001+01:002010-12-05T01:05:43.292+01:00

I left the sunny port of Peiraias and I came to the CD house on Wednesday December 1st in order to assist the Comite Directeur in IT stuff and everything else is needed and I am able to.This is my first time in the CD house and in Brussels and I hope to have a great time in the house and in Brussels even I don’t speak any French at all :PI want to thank the CD for selecting me as IT assistant and

Manosnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-87350364065528170952010-11-29T02:44:00.007+01:002011-06-07T15:32:07.715+02:00

STeXX (Student Experiences Exchange) is a new project that is being organized by Studyportals, AEGEE and ESTIEM. And last weekend of November, we all gathered in Brussels for kick-off meeting – to discuss all future plans and create a strategy how to proceed in upcoming months. The main aim of this project is to collect reports from students about their studies abroad – and create a database

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-10497317483230640292010-11-26T18:34:00.001+01:002010-11-26T18:47:48.701+01:00

I am asking myself, what kinds of words could I use to describe Brussels? Which adjectives to choose to describe a patchwork, something sewn together out of leftovers, which nouns to select in order to express the face of this city in the middle of a divided country, the capital of Europe that is struggling for unification. It has been already two years since I have paid this place my first visit

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-6061214901237986912010-11-23T05:49:00.007+01:002011-06-07T15:32:45.014+02:00

(Budapest, 14.-21.11.2010; Human Resources European School 2010)In the end of November, a group of HeRoES gathered together in the capital of Hungary in order to turn a workshop room at CEU (Central European University) into a mess of flipcharts, post-it, ideas, plans and motivation.The first Human Resources European School with 23 participants was tackling the increasing problem with member

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-63700280492770660162010-11-22T02:58:00.002+01:002010-11-22T03:03:41.860+01:00

The AEGEE head office in Brussels is not only the working place of the Comité Directeur, but also a meeting point for the AEGEE network - for project teams, working groups, and also for our Antennae who want to show their new members around in the wonderful world of the European institutions.This month, "the House" was honoured by two of our locals from the Netherlands visiting us on two

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-78039296365618116722010-11-18T13:35:00.003+01:002010-11-18T13:44:20.061+01:00

There are hundreds of thousands of local organisations, thousands of national ones, hundreds of international associations, tens of umbrella institutions that are working to co-ordinate all of our activities... So the question is: Who the hell, is leading us, representing youth, advising institutions and speaking loudly about what bother us?Well, there might be many answers but there is one,

Mirek Krzaniknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-4031248845713444492010-11-18T10:33:00.007+01:002011-06-07T15:32:51.203+02:00

AEGEE Network Meeting Bilbao, SpainNetwork Commission & AEGEE-Bilbao12th - 14th November, 2010In the middle of cold and rainy November, a group of 50 people from more than 20 different locals gathered in the north of Spain, in order to get to the next level. Yep, I’m talking about network meeting in Bilbao!This Spanish network meeting was a bit different that the first one in Madrid. This network

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-90179951093770120762010-11-18T01:30:00.001+01:002010-11-18T01:31:11.430+01:00

When I’ve got to know that it will be me representing AEGEE-Europe at the Network Meeting in Dnipropetrovsk, I was positively surprised! As usually I was happy to go to a new and remote place. This journey was expected to be particularly interesting, as the city itself was completely closed to foreigners due to the center of Sovet rocket industry, which was situated nearby. So I packed by

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-83179531994179449782010-11-16T12:51:00.002+01:002010-12-07T19:59:56.860+01:00

Have you ever been to Network meeting in Poland? Have you heard that these Network meetings are one of the biggest events in AEGEE? And what about amazing AEGEE spirit at this event?First week end of November I spent in Poland in nice city Lublin where Network meeting took place.  More than 100 participants from 18 locals, 23 organizers and lots of fun during 3 days.Network meeting started from

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-48461073342806791422010-11-15T12:52:00.002+01:002010-12-07T20:01:05.421+01:00

Have you ever thought about visiting your beloved CD members in Brussels? Do you want to know more about those 8 people who are living in Brussels and working hard for AEGEE? Or you are just wondering how CD house is look like...If you ever had such questions it's time for you to book tickets and come to Brussels and see CD house by yourself, all AEGEE members are welcome to visit us. Naturally,

Alla Reshetennoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-57186642027827220772010-11-12T01:48:00.006+01:002010-11-12T02:16:58.317+01:00

On Tuesday, the AEGEE head office was visited by the participants of the EuroArab Case Study Trip that is part of our Flagship Project, Beyond Europe. For one evening, more than 30 young people not only from Europe, but also from Palestine and Egypt came to the House to cook dinner together and learn more about our organisation. I had the pleasure to give two separate AEGEE introductions, since

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-83654441893114210352010-11-08T12:47:00.007+01:002010-11-08T22:38:57.014+01:00

Regional Identity Conference, León, SpainWDEE project & AEGEE-León31st October - 6th November, 2010 In the beginning of 2009, a small group of AEGEE members took on the quest for the borders of Europe: not only the geographical borders, but also the cultural, the ethnical, the political ones. Which borders do we, European citizens, have in our mind when we talk about Europe, our continent? A

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-7582731484962507592010-11-06T13:31:00.007+01:002011-06-07T15:33:20.209+02:00

dear AEGEE members!Have you ever studied abroad? Did you attend any student exchange? Have you ever done ERASMUS?Would you like to share your experiences with other students? And win an iPad in the end?Then this contest is exactly for you!Together with our partners, Studyportals.eu, we are organizing WRITING CONTEST!"Send in any article about your study experience in Europe"The reward:- you can

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-22228006008483505542010-11-02T19:23:00.001+01:002010-11-16T15:33:13.699+01:00

A Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday somewhere in the end of October. One may thing that these would be just some ordinary days, during which (in case of nice weather) we would maybe go for a walk in the park to enjoy the golden-brown colours of autumn and feel the leaves under our shoes. Does it change a lot, if I'll specify the dates with 21st - 24th of October 2010? Yes it does, as there

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-62189976362890211322010-11-01T02:49:00.012+01:002010-11-12T02:59:28.896+01:00

AEGEE Network Meeting Madrid, SpainNetwork Commission & AEGEE-Madrid15th - 17th October, 2010 If you consider an AEGEE Network Meeting to be a social event (which you should), then you could call the recent NWM Madrid a resounding success. Spanish people have a remarkable talent for social inclusion, and no matter whether you are young or old, newby or veteran, boy or girl or something in between

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-39422530773608307262010-11-01T02:27:00.005+01:002011-06-07T15:39:35.964+02:00

Autumn IFISO Meeting, Istanbul, TurkeyIFISO & ESTIEM Istanbul7th - 11th October, 2010During second weekend of October 2010, I went to represent AEGEE to the bi-annual IFISO meeting in Istanbul. You may wonder – what is IFISO? Well, IFISO is The Informal Forum of International Student Organizations and it is a forum aimed to gather different students NGOs together. IFISO, even as an informal forum

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-53299108049098659292010-09-18T16:51:00.008+02:002010-11-08T13:10:28.974+01:00

AEGEE European School 2 in Poznań, PolandAEGEE-Academy & AEGEE-Poznań4th - 12th September, 2010We are not only in AEGEE to stand up for the future of Europe; we are also in AEGEE to learn from each other, discover new horizons, acquire new skills and develop ourselves as personalities. Of course, in most of our activities, all these aspects go somehow together. But rarely have I seen such an

Thomas van de Guchtenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-75202213652242056182010-09-02T15:34:00.005+02:002011-06-07T15:44:31.122+02:00

New CD will soon overtake this blog... Stay tuned!your Comité Directeur 2010-2011Alfredo, Alla, Anya, Manos, Michael, Mirek, Mirka, Thomas

Miroslava Ganzarcikovanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-37091186531823037412010-08-30T16:59:00.004+02:002010-09-18T17:03:16.628+02:00

AEGEE-Europe is proud to announce that one of our Antennae – AEGEE-Budapest was chosen this week to be the Hosting Organisation for the Hungarian Presidency Project Officer. That means that AEGEE will play a significant role in the next term of the European Union’s presidency! On the 1st of January 2010 Hungary will take over the Presidency of the Council of European Union for half a year. The

Mirek Krzaniknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-79013211080383509172010-08-26T15:42:00.004+02:002010-08-26T15:46:59.405+02:00

Even in the knowledge transfer period CD is taking decisions and developing AEGEE. This time we approved a new contact in Ploiesti and let them tell more about their city!Ploiesti is located 60 km north of Bucharest and it is the county seat of Prahova.The town was established in 1596, during the reign of Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave). It rapidly flourished as a center for trade and

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-89965691071468006092010-08-04T19:57:00.005+02:002010-08-04T20:28:19.235+02:00

It’s been a long time since an interview has appeared on this blog! This time I am introducing Àgnes Leyrer, the External Relations Director of AEGEE-Europe and believe me, this interview shouldn’t remain unpublished! Just think about those things you always wanted to ask Àgnes, but always were afraid to do so? What are the questions that are coming into to your mind? Why is she not married while

Michael Makowieckihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336366361513586527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-51935002022246346792010-08-02T16:53:00.004+02:002010-08-02T16:58:52.595+02:00

Last week CD approved yet another contact and now we welcome Yerevan back in AEGEE Network! Some years ago there already was an AEGEE local and now we hope to welcome them as as a local soon again!YerevanNamed as the 2012 World Book Capital by the UNESCO, Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-74815741087414911512010-07-12T17:09:00.004+02:002010-07-12T17:14:01.532+02:00

This time AEGEE welcomes the new contact in the sunny city of Genova.Genova (or in English Genoa) is an important seaport in northern Italy, more precisely the capital of Liruria region. With its 700.000 inhabitants, it's the inferior angle of the so-called italian “industrial triangle” together with Milano and Torino, granting it the role of one of the major economic centres.Also known as “the

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-19397342326602523672010-06-01T19:08:00.005+02:002010-06-01T19:26:59.728+02:00

Last month CD was happy to approve another new contact - this time in Elazig, Turkey!Here is what motivated students of Elazig and future AEGEE-Elazig wrote about their city and university:Firat UniversityCentrally located in Elazig City, the University offers students easy access to all local facilities. The University's origins can be traced back as far as 1967, with the establishment in the

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-27960897892257054232010-05-04T20:07:00.005+02:002010-05-04T20:33:06.577+02:00

After a long break I am glad to introduce a special interview with a special person. Someone that deserves to be called prominent: please allow to introduce to you Anita Kalmane in a way you have always wanted to, but were always afraid to ask. What is hidden behind her AEGEE personality, what did the destiny prepare for her and the most important question: is she in fact a chicken? Read further

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-28075720967594306932010-04-15T13:03:00.003+02:002010-04-15T13:35:35.428+02:00

Thursday, April 15th. 1pm. University of Leiden. Loads of people queuing. Why? Because AEGEE Spring Agora Leiden 2010 is starting!The day has started with International Study and Career Forum, where the students have possibilities to find out about universities all over Europe.Meanwhile the first ones who have arrived can also take a part in a Dutch language speed course, city tour of Leiden,

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-70807038189923489302010-03-26T17:22:00.006+01:002010-03-26T17:44:53.496+01:00

Two new cities have joined AEGEE Network, since two days ago CD approved two new contacts - Dundee and Macerata. Welcome!DundeeDundee is the 4th of the biggest Scottish cities with population of 159,522. Its motto, The City of Discovery, fully suits to Dundee's history of scientific activities and discoveries. The city is situated on the north bank of the Firth of Tay and near the North Sea and

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-11908931866044799292010-03-24T16:26:00.014+01:002010-03-24T17:18:06.924+01:00

25 years have passed since Athens became the first European Capital of Culture back in 1985 (the year I and some other CD members were born, ouch!). To celebrate the anniversary, European Commission (Director General of DG Education and Culture) organised a conference to meet and speak about the future, present and past European Capitals of Culture.As one of AEGEE's Fields of Action is cultural

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-86972641645694172952010-03-19T01:55:00.013+01:002010-03-22T12:53:42.403+01:00

Everything was perfect and well-organised at the European Boards’ Meeting which was held in Krakow, Poland between the 24th and 27th February 2010.The European Boards’ Meeting is a unique event, because at this statutory meeting the Action Agenda for the whole year is prepared. During 2 days delegates from the Network together with the Project Director Manos Valasis evaluated the Action Agenda

Anya Petrovanoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-45483278784208097522010-03-16T22:53:00.012+01:002010-03-17T14:38:29.892+01:00

Olga Basova, if the end of the world would come, wouldn't you like to spend it with her sitting on a beach somewhere in China or Japan? You say it is only a dream? Read the interview and find out that it could be very much possible! Get to know about what she was dreaming last night, her taste for cinema and much more... get to know the true Olga and feel free to add smileys almost everywhere in

Ol'kanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-37965622333574770742010-03-08T19:10:00.002+01:002010-03-08T19:22:12.169+01:00

Today in the last CD meeting we were very happy to approve yet another new born city in AEGEE map. Heraklio, the biggest city in Crete, is joining us - actually re-joining, because they were part of AEGEE already a few years ago, but due to in-activeness disappeared and now are reborn again.The city of Heraklio, with a population of about 150 000 inhabitants, is the largest city in Crete and one

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-69377134510517585742010-03-04T19:38:00.009+01:002010-03-04T20:29:02.513+01:00

Wednesday, almost at the same time when European Commission were meeting to adopt their proposal for EU 2020 strategy, representatives from different embassies, organisations and companies replied to the invitation of the European Movement International to discuss the economic and social future of Europe in the briefing "EU 2020 Strategy: Raising the Game!"I did not see a lot of youth

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-71256435980851013422010-03-03T18:23:00.007+01:002010-03-03T18:45:32.233+01:00

On 2nd of March the weather was beautiful in Brussels, but what was more interesting to watch was the "Conflict Prevention and Resolution: the Role of Cultural Relations" international conference organized by SDA in cooperation with NATO and British Concil . The event took place at the Bibliotheque Solvay and hosted a large number of speakers and international participants.The event kicked off

Sorin Vulcunoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-17933696883711529972010-03-02T20:34:00.009+01:002010-03-02T20:54:39.196+01:00

After a long way home (read: Brussels) from EBM Krakow and just a few hours of sleep, on Monday morning Sorin and me went to the European Parliament, where one of our unofficial partner organisations EPSA (European Pharmaceutical Students' Association) was organising their Annual Reception.Although AEGEE and EPSA do not have any official cooperation, informally we have friendly relationship both

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-49253385152529330612010-03-01T20:11:00.005+01:002010-03-01T20:27:32.480+01:00

Although you all might be waiting stories from EBM Krakow 2010, we'll keep you waiting for the blog post about it for a few days... Because there are other stories from days before EBM, which we did not manage to tell you yet.Couple days before EBM while all CD members were doing the last preparations for Krakow we also managed to take another important decision - approve a new contact! So let's

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-31226247082636532092010-02-24T13:24:00.018+01:002010-02-24T14:32:00.365+01:00

The general mailing ended just when the Mail Meeting was starting, marking this the ultimate Mail Weekend event in terms of...well...mail.Christophe , almost not make it due to train cancellations that were affecting the traffic with Brussels, but after some help from his trust-worthy teammate he made it in one piece in the CD house.During the meeting, the team discussed issues like improving the

Sorin Vulcunoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-24607907857956915972010-02-22T13:46:00.007+01:002010-02-22T14:20:57.033+01:00

This story actually started already during Christmas, when I was all alone in the CD House and noticed, that the fridge is smelling... not very nice. In other words - it didn't work.To keep the long story short and skip all the steps we needed to go through the last two months to try to repair the old fridge, find out that it is not possible, order and finally get the new fridge, I will simply

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-55219790637918609122010-02-21T03:07:00.001+01:002010-02-21T03:10:03.627+01:00

AEGEE Headoffice in Brussels had another interesting and busy week, this time with girls from YOUrope needs YOU 2! who came for their project development meeting. It all began when the four of us finally met at Gare Du Midi in Brussels and then found our way to CD house in“ Schaarbeek“. After warm welcome by CD members, we occupied social room and prepared our agenda for next busy days. We came

Manosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-91030929982395195142010-02-20T19:17:00.009+01:002010-02-20T19:32:57.029+01:00

It was Thursday evening. All the new AEGEE PR materials were put into the envelopes, sealed and ready to be transported to Delft and to be send to the Network. General Mailing sceduled for Friday. Departure time: 13:30 It was Friday. 9 am. Nico rushed into my room: “Olga, SU PR materials just arrived!!!” “What? Crap… I mean: great! Wake up the house! :)” And IT has started! 10 people, 3

Ol'kanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-84279750493619215562010-02-19T01:26:00.002+01:002010-02-22T13:22:31.965+01:00

This week the time has come for the next interview with a CD member: this time the Projects Director himself Manos Valasis. Being very talkative, he told me about his definition of happiness, challenges and… read yourself!Michael: What is inspiring you in life?Manos: In life, in general? I don't have a life at the moment, so not much to say...Mi: ...so what do you have?Ma: I have AEGEE.Mi: What

Manosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-48508551552700184692010-02-18T11:51:00.008+01:002010-02-18T12:19:37.485+01:00

Beginning of last week we received an interesting letter at the headoffice of AEGEE-Europe. The letter was addressed for: M. Franck Biancheri AEGEE-Europe Rue Nestor de Tière 15 1030 Brussels, Belgium As most of you know, there is no Mr. Biancheri in the current Comité Directeur. This is not the most surprising part, as we almost every week receive a letter that was addressed to some former

Nico Huurmannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-50785340368740433812010-02-16T18:06:00.005+01:002010-02-16T18:25:15.497+01:00

Today in the latest CD meeting we were proud to approve another new contact - Leipzig! Welcome back to the family the city, which was part of AEGEE Network already some years ago and now is re-starting again!The new contact is founded by a mixture of students - both AEGEE members from different cities who have now moved to Leipzig as well as new students who have heard about AEGEE from their

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-36474994144330711962010-02-15T19:01:00.010+01:002010-02-15T20:20:53.290+01:00

Last Thursday 11th of February I had the pleasure to attend the meeting “Youth Health Initiative: State of Play and Way Forward”, which was held in Brussels, Centre Albert Borschette. The meeting was primarily aimed at discussing and sharing views and ideas on how best to take forward the Youth Health Initiative, following the roadmap for a better youth health in Europe, which was set

Anya Petrovanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-86999385620881264152010-02-05T22:51:00.005+01:002010-02-05T23:11:30.016+01:00

Finally, I have arrived to the CD-house in order to assist to the Comite Directeur in different tasks, especially to Nico Huurman in financial matters. Actually, it’s my third time in Brussels, in the headquarters of AEGEE-Europe. I’ve visited the CD-house for 3-4 days-long preparatory meetings of the Beyond Europe project and got acquainted with all the members of the Comite Directeur. Now it’

Anya Petrovanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-43725948565734989842010-02-03T17:49:00.005+01:002010-02-04T09:55:50.268+01:00

The international launch of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture was held yesterday in the European Parliament in Brussels. The event brought together high-level personalities from cultural organisations, EU, national and international institutions, think-tanks, academia, NGOs and the media, to celebrate what will be a momentous year for the city.I got a personal invitation for this

Ol'kanoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-34458606377763226342010-02-02T21:37:00.008+01:002010-02-02T22:14:36.383+01:00

You always hear about them, some gossip here, some mails there, but who are these people that are sitting in an office somewhere in Brussels? Network Director threatening to downgrade your antenna? Financial Director refusing reimbursement? Is the Comité Directeur truly made out of people from flesh and blood? Yes, they are and now you will get the unique opportunity to get to know them better. I

Agatanoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-55467067714025782312010-01-31T15:35:00.001+01:002010-01-31T15:37:59.399+01:00

Mickey said there will be around 70 students, all understanding English properly, afterwards there will be an exam and they get credits for the Seminar. The title of the session was the title of this blogpost and the person giving the presentation: Agnes Leyrer. Me.The whole thing started with Mickey organising a conference in Brescia, and he needed a speaker. Since the topic, European identity

Agnes.Leyrernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-13499357448895641072010-01-28T22:06:00.001+01:002010-01-28T22:07:56.671+01:00

Dear AEGEE members,Already since 2008 your Comite Directeur has its own blog, which you are reading right now. :)Now, after 1,5 years having this blog we would like to evaluate what does our Network think about.Therefore we would appreciate if you would devote 5-10 minutes of your time to reply to the questions which can be found here (click on the link). The deadline to fill the survey is

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-62323212647186644012010-01-21T11:52:00.005+01:002010-01-21T12:04:51.696+01:00

On Saturday morning when the sun was rising at the Rue Nestor de Tiere, some extraordinary guests were gathering in the CD house in Brussels. Creative, motivated and open minded AEGEE members were looking forward to brainstorm, plan and discuss everything related to Culture Working Group. After being welcomed by the CD members, the directions have been made clear for them: down to the

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-30693348244405829372010-01-19T01:00:00.000+01:002010-01-19T01:00:52.061+01:00

This weekend, the CD House was visited by Sveta, Flo, Eszti, and Verena, to have a team meeting of the new challenging project: AEGEE 25 J Because you know, in 2010 AEGEE will be celebrating 25 years of youth action, creativity,  experience and our members deserve the best!!!! We would like to thank for the cooperation: AEGEE- Beograd, AEGEE-Cagliari, AEGEE-Izmir, AEGEE-Kyiv, AEGEE-Las

Manosnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-82700641363048029392010-01-18T22:43:00.004+01:002010-01-18T23:04:26.315+01:00

Today AEGEE-Europe Board of Directors approved a new contact - Sarajevo! "The very first idea of recreating AEGEE-Sarajevo was born in May 2009, when we met with some people from AEGEE-Beograd in Youth activism days," they say themselves.Congratulations to all of the new and very, very motivated members, who are now able to travel and organise their own events and develop their soft skills! We

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-37887286412606642512010-01-16T21:12:00.006+01:002010-01-16T21:25:19.491+01:00

On Thursday the 1st CD assistant Sorin Vulcu (AEGEE-Sibiu) arrived in the CD House to stay here for two months to give a helping hand on everything indeed - Manos and IT matters in a first place.We used the opportunity to ask him seven questions to get to know him better. So here it goes, seven questions from seven CD members!Q: You didn't know anyone before you came to the CD house. Did you do

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-3028687690856106932010-01-15T17:59:00.014+01:002010-01-27T10:56:19.891+01:00

Dear network,As financial director, I’m the one who receives all your requests for money. According to our CIA some of the costs you make as active member of AEGEE are reimbursed to you. This mostly applies to travel costs to statutory events for people elected in certain commission and the trips made by the Network Commissioners who visit locals in their area to assist them in their needs.

Nico Huurmannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-28024991632615083202010-01-13T14:30:00.006+01:002010-01-13T22:21:54.526+01:00

This Monday I took a train to one of my favourite cities - Maastricht, where I had a meeting with Student Forum Maastricht (SFM) 2010 organisers.SFM is an international conference for 100 students coming from all over Europe to discuss and exchange their opinions in order to create a better understanding of the challenges facing Europe today. This year SFM has a theme "The European Dream -

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-69898572033509981822010-01-07T16:23:00.005+01:002010-01-07T16:39:18.533+01:00

In the middle of December, one more happy city joined AEGEE Network when in Network Meeting Tirane AEGEE-Elbasan signed Convention d'Adhesion and from a contact became a contact antenna.Elton Plaka, the new president of AEGEE-Elbasan, was showing the presentation of his city and explaining that the history of this Albanian town as well as the university "Aleksander Xhuvani". It started as Elbasan

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-22866317203031860692009-12-31T20:09:00.004+01:002009-12-31T20:32:19.144+01:00

Only few hours left till the end of the 2009...We hope that this year has been filled for all of you with happines, joy, personal & professional success, and was simply full of unforgettable expereinces.We would like to wish you a Happy New Year!!! May the new 2010 bring you success in every filed of life, lots of love, happinesss, great fun and your (wildest) dreams and hopes come true. Have the

Agatanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-56582990608272428192009-12-22T16:27:00.006+01:002009-12-22T16:31:43.918+01:00

On 15-17th December CD went to Las Palmas (thanks to Ryanair for cheap tickets!) to have a teambuilding.See some pictures below with season greetings! :)

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-63641247568509410882009-12-21T22:15:00.005+01:002009-12-22T09:38:01.233+01:00

For those who think of winter as a magical season, we’d say they’re right. Because this year, the team members of Where Does Europe End were taken by the wind and brought together in beautiful Brussels as the night was falling down. Why? What do you mean “why”? Let me give you a hint: they didn’t go there to visit Santa Claus nor did they come to taste delicious Belgian chocolate. They went

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-4230486481583481922009-12-17T22:38:00.005+01:002009-12-17T22:47:57.207+01:00

For the first time in AEGEE, one of its most important Projects, the Flagship Project for 2010-2011, is going “Beyond Europe”.During the last four days, the main points of the third pillar of Beyond Europe have been settled, and the "Youth in Action" application granted in the end of September for the iniciative Millenium Development Goals (MDG) - A challenge for today’s Youth? has become a

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-34779456033509563952009-12-15T04:55:00.006+01:002009-12-15T05:02:51.248+01:00

Between 9th and 11th of December in the CD house there was Concept Development Team Meeting of Human Resources European School (HRES).HRES is a unique project, created as a response to the needs of the whole network – it’s aim is to improve Human Resources structure and knowledge in whole AEGEE. The first edition of this training will take place in Budapest in September and therefore six people

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-85667881443528778002009-12-14T15:03:00.006+01:002009-12-14T15:18:07.170+01:00

The last four days were kind of crazy in the CD House. We had around 20-30 guests all day and night, serious meetings and less serious evenings as well as guests from not only Europe, but even South Africa and India. But about that you will be able to read more in the upcoming days! :)The last weekend was also important, because we started to realise that Christmas and New Year will be very soon.

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-59331357338557075892009-12-12T14:11:00.000+01:002009-12-12T14:11:51.540+01:00

Weekends of 5th -6th  December. Christmas spirit all over. Stoned pavements and cozy streets of Aachen, decorated with bright lights and sparkling garlands. City filled with tourists drinking mulled wine at one of the most beautiful Christmas Markets. All this winter beauty the Chair Team could have enjoyed only from the window of Patrick’s apartment. For two days from dawn till dusk the Chair

Manosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-90978020806433123962009-12-09T14:33:00.005+01:002009-12-09T15:09:24.119+01:00

Dearest friends, Comité Directeur would like to say thanks to all the antennae who applied for organising Fall Agora 2010. We apologise for the delay announcing the final decision and host, but this decision could not have been taken in a rush. After loads of discussions and clarifying questions we are now proud to announce that Fall Agora 2010 will be held in Istanbul! Special thanks go to

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-17305335833135362112009-12-06T22:14:00.005+01:002009-12-06T22:30:14.769+01:00

During the past two weeks I had the pleasure of escaping from the CD for some time for two things. I will now give a short report on them, the European Day of Languages in Aachen and a training day on the new bookkeeping software of AEGEE-Europe.Part 1: LanguagesOn Thursday 26th of November the AEGEE network was celebrating its yearly European Day of Languages. I was invited by AEGEE-Aachen to

Nico Huurmannoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-71589385294807534712009-12-04T20:22:00.004+01:002009-12-04T20:36:59.342+01:00

Dear readers,The last weekend I attended a very German Network Meeting with perfect German organisation, German timing, punctuality and food. Every part of the NWM was very nicely organised, the workshops, the equipment, the social programme, the European night...But lets start with the serious issues.I was leading two workshops, one on Fund Raising (as Fund Raiser of AEGEE-Europe I supposed to

Agnes.Leyrernoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-39950109738792408122009-11-30T10:54:00.009+01:002009-11-30T11:58:29.965+01:00

My last week was so crazy and full of different happenings, that I even did not have any time to write about it. Trying to catch up now and do it all at once! :)So what exactly did happen?At first, it was PRES1 Leiden (Public Relations European School),where from Monday till Wednesday I was giving workshops about PR - to be more precise, one about strategic partners of NGOs (participants did a

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-13915717047119535132009-11-23T21:12:00.002+01:002009-11-23T21:17:26.955+01:00

...any ideas now?the first person giving the right answer gets the amazing price: A free, romantique weekend in Schaerbeek with the girl who takes art in our lives!For guessing please write a comment.

Agnes.Leyrernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-58468421228217494682009-11-21T19:49:00.003+01:002009-11-21T20:00:18.884+01:00

As a first hint you could see the deliciously prepared sushi on the kitchen table. From this picture you can guess that the person in the house knows Denis and is most probably a girl. If you can already guess, please state your comment! Who is in the house??

Agnes.Leyrernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-71579819304410422932009-11-19T11:19:00.005+01:002009-11-19T11:33:05.642+01:00

Autumn. AEGEE. Those two words automatically make a connection with Autumn Network Meetings, which happen every year all over our Network. Last weekend I was visiting one of them - Network Meeting Warwick "Singing in the Rain".People. Bunch of interested people, who are living in Great Britain (even if they are not British themselves), one girl from Bucharest and three trainers from the

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-72329500042986758402009-11-17T01:49:00.005+01:002009-11-17T01:56:49.631+01:00

who is in the house?

Denisnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-31708137483727221312009-11-10T17:52:00.008+01:002009-11-10T18:55:49.557+01:00

Last weekend the CD House was half empty - Nico took a weekend off to go on a private trip, Olga attended Network Meeting Katowice as a CD member, but I joined Network Commission in their NCM - also in Katowice (thanks to AEGEE-Katowice for all the facilities they provided us).It all started on Wednesday, when I arrived in Wroclaw and joined AEGEE-Wroclaw in their board meeting (no, I do not

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-70590794473073087562009-11-04T10:48:00.005+01:002009-11-04T11:02:37.531+01:00

Yesterday Manos and me spent all day in European Youth Forum (YFJ) office in a meeting about Quality Assurance in Non-Formal Education. AEGEE together with five other YFJ member organisations were chosen to implement a pilot project on Quality Assurance for the next six months.What did we do? - We got to know each other- We shared best practises and examples about Quality Assurance in our

Anita Kalmanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-805642999823277182009-10-30T19:30:00.000+01:002009-10-30T19:30:09.165+01:00

...and after all we managed to arrive in Kyiv. it took as a couple of days of having German trains  and rain testing our patience, but we managed. There, we met the unique phenomenon of "rainfog", as described from the writer. Fog, but rain. Or may be rain, but fog? It is the endless discussion if the chicken came from the egg, or the egg from the chicken. And we didn't manage to find a solution

Manosnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060598270481690624.post-90264170448984079172009-10-21T12:03:00.005+02:002009-10-21T12:19:40.548+02:00

CD is working even on their way to Autumn Agora Kyiv 2009 - a proof of that is a CD decision, which was taken in the car on the way to Aachen, where we slept overnight before taking a flight next morning from Dortmund airport to Kiev.This CD decision approved one more contact, and we are happy to welcome Antalya in AEGEE family!Antalya, the pearl of Mediterranean, is an attractive Turkish city

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