AEGEE
AEGEE (Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe / European Students’ Forum) is a student organisation that promotes co-operation, communication and integration amongst young people in Europe. As a non-governmental, politically independent and non-profit organisation AEGEE is open to students and young professionals from all faculties and disciplines – today it counts 15.000 members, active in more than 240 university cities in 43 European countries, making it the biggest interdisciplinary student association in Europe.
AEGEE, which was founded in 1985 in Paris, puts the idea of a unified Europe into practice. A widely spread student network provides the ideal platform where youth workers and young volunteers from 43 European countries can work together on crossborder activities such as conferences, seminars, exchanges, training courses, Summer Universities, Case Study trips and Working Group meetings.
By encouraging travelling and mobility, stimulating discussion and organising common projects AEGEE attempts to overcome national, cultural and ethnic divisions and to create a vision of young people’s Europe. The structure is based on an European level (a European Board of Directors working in Brussels and 4 Commissions, 11 Working Groups and 9 multinational Project Teams) and on a local level (the 240 antennae or local groups, forming the Network).
All the numerous events and projects run by the organisation are to be focused on our 4 Fields of Action (Cultural Exchange, Active Citizenship, Higher Education, Peace & Stability) and 3 Focus Areas (European Citizenship, Global Challenges and Intercultural Dialogue).
AEGEE 25
AEGEE turns 25 and the year 2010 will be full of activities to celebrate this moment: exchanges, contests, conferences and more activities will mark 2010; the events will take place in different edges of our Network.
April 16th of 1985 was the day AEGEE held its first conference in Paris with topics related to the paralysation of the European integration process. Starting with just six locals in Western Europe, AEGEE became a platform for students from Europe to discuss the future of Europe. A lot has happened since 1985: with the disappearance of the Iron Curtain, AEGEE was able to embrace Eastern Europe and it was just a matter of time before the first city in Eastern Europe would join AEGEE. Even today, locals in Central and Eastern Europe prove to be valuable for the European society. AEGEE is even moving beyond the accepted European borders and was founding locals in Russia, Turkey and a few years ago, locals were founded in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
AEGEE25 is not only to celebrate the 25 years of existence of AEGEE but also to show Europe that we are a multicultural organisation with locals in every country in the European Union and even outside the European Union. We want to highlight AEGEE’s accomplishments in the fields of cultural exchange, active citizenship, higher education and peace & stability. The aim of this project is to look at the past, present and future of AEGEE: what has AEGEE done for its members and the European society? How are our projects relating to the European society? What can we develop AEGEE so that AEGEE members can contribute more to the European society?
All students involved in AEGEE do this on a voluntary basis and as 2011 will be also European Year of Volunteering, we would like to emphasise the need of volunteer work to create a better European society. The year 2010 will therefore be full of activities which will contribute to achieve the aims of this project: exchanges, contests, conferences and more activities. In total, the events will take place in different edges of our Network and will make 2010 a year AEGEE will not forget.
AEGEE 25 Events
AGORA? Here we go!
AEGEE-Paris 12-15 of April 2010
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AEGEE-Paris 12-15 of April 2010
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25°ANNIVERSARY “I GUOS DER”
AEGEE-Madrid 19 -23 of May 2010
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AEGEE-Madrid 19 -23 of May 2010
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20th anniversary of AEGEE-Passau
AEGEE-Passau 28 -30 of May 2010
AEGEE-Passau 28 -30 of May 2010
Pay It Forward! Assignment: save the world!
AEGEE-Kyiv 26 of June – 02 of July 2010
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Back to USSR: Before and after AEGEE
AEGEE-Sankt-Peterburg 02-09 of July 2010
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AEGEE-Sankt-Peterburg 02-09 of July 2010
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Summer University “Snapshots in Capital of Culture”
AEGEE-Istanbul 05-19 of July 2010
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AEGEE-Istanbul 05-19 of July 2010
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Summer Event “Far Far Away Kingdom: Surfing on Life”
AEGEE-Las Palmas 01 -12 of August 2010
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AEGEE-Las Palmas 01 -12 of August 2010
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Many countries, ONE Europe: 25 years of young democracy
AEGEE-Cagliari 07-13 of September 2010
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We don’t need no education
AEGEE-Sofia 16-23 of September 2010
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Exhibition during fall agora Istanbul
AEGEE-Istanbul 21-24 of October 2010
Post-event
AEGEE-Izmir October 2010
AEGEE-Izmir October 2010
Skills for your life: Light up your international career!
AEGEE-Torino 06-08 of November 2010
AEGEE-Torino 06-08 of November 2010
X(V)X
AEGEE-Beograd 07-13 of November 2010
AEGEE-Beograd 07-13 of November 2010
Final convention
AEGEE-Brussels December 2010
AEGEE-Brussels December 2010
