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Project Development Meetings, No 1: Cultural Booklet Team

AEGEE has given the new project ideas in our network the chance to come in our mighty CD house and develop their projects for the future, sparing 2000 euros in its budget. We have managed to find 3 different teams with good ideas and teams coming to our house till in November and December, having their project development meetings in the house with my support and attendance.

The first project team who is honouring us with their attendance is, Cultural Booklet team, with their 4 team members present, Natalia Hubert AEGEE-Lyon, Georgios Ampazidis AEGEE-Patra, Andrea Ledwig AEGEE-Augsburg , Michael Makowiecki AEGEE-Hamburg.

2 hectic days have started for us, working full weekend on making the project more tangible and making it real.

More info and results coming soon...

European Boards Meeting in Torino

Yesterday (Monday), i have met with Wouter IJGosse, chairman of the AGORA&EBM, in Rotterdam, for the preparation and structuring of European Boards Meeting that will take place in Torino between 12-15 February 2009.

During our meeting, the programme and the sessions (Action Meetings, Round Table Discussions, Workshops) had been revised and we have discussed what we can add and develop, based on our experiences and the results of the surveys from the last years.

After having the base and developing the structure, we made sure that the process is going smoothly, with the fact that we started working on it in such an early notice.

We believe in creating the sense of belonging to our participants, thus we made sure that in every minute of EBM, the participants will feel involved and have their voices heard.

More information coming soon....

November rocked the Network! (and it's not over yet...)

November Network Meetings. You didn't miss the hottest appointment of the season, did you? Enjoy reading and hurry up to join the next one! Toulouse and Rodos are about to begin...

NWM Coruña 7-9 November
During this weekend a group of 68 persons (53 participants + 6 members of our Netcom Team + Secretary General Evren from CD + 8 local organizers) joined together in a small village near to Coruña. Participants represented locals mainly from Spain & Portugal and the program was based on the exchange of ideas, on identifying common problems and finding solutions. With the help of Evren we talked about European projects in AEGEE (especially YNY, Y-Vote and SUFU), and we also discussed about our participation in Youth Councils. The first European event organized by the enthusiastic and professional team of AEGEE-Coruña showed that they are just starting their successful AEGEE road!!
CD representative: Evren

NWM Novi Sad 6-9 November
Huge comeback of AEGEE Novi Sad! From 6th until 9th November 2008. AEGEE Novi Sad (Serbia) organized a fabulous Network Meeting for around 25 participants. All 4 days packed with interesting lectures, interactive workshops, beautiful sightseeing of Novi Sad, colorful and rich cuisine offer, all topped by unforgettable nights in a unique kafana atmosphere… With this NWM AEGEE Novi Sad once again proved what AEGEE truly is – a network of open minded, positive and ingenious people connecting Europe and building the future today.
CD representative: Tena

NWM Wroclaw 7-10 November
From 7 till 10 of November AEGEE Wroclaw managed to organise a huge NetMet that gathered 165 people (133 participants and 32 organisers) from 22 antennas.
It was four amazing days with workshops, progress meetings, presentations of WGs and projects (expecially YOUrope needs YOU and Y Vote 2009.
There has been also time to enjoy sightseeing in Wroclaw, Wroclaw's clubs and amazing parties!
Participants gained motivation and energy for voluntering in AEGEE in the upcoming months. Until the next NetMet ;-)
CD representative: Dragan

Huge thanks to the NetCommies involved: Virginia, Nikola, Miljan, Dominik

- To serve and protect! -

European Youth Week

The European Youth Week took place from November 2 to 6 in Brussels and gathered together more than a hundred young people from all corners of Europe, among them one AEGEEan in the International Youth NGO delegation, Ildikó Ferencsik from AEGEE-Budapest. I also had the chance to join the last day of this event, to the political debate, where there were young people and parliementers, such as Jan Figel(Commissioner responsible for education, training, culture and youth), debating about the whole week and deciding on which topics to focus for the future, involving the youth opinion. Ildiko and I have approach the parliementers, and introduced them to our projects in AEGEE, and also talked with our current patrons and updated them about the latest news.


Below you can find the article of Ildiko about this whole week:


The event was organised by the European Commission and the European Parliament to celebrate the 20th anniversary of European programmes for youth (Youth in Action) and to contribute, as part of the structured dialogue with young people, to the discussions on the future direction of EU youth policies. Also it aimed to close the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and to prepare the next framework of co-operation in the youth field for the next period (Open Method of Coordination).

The participants were working on specific youth policy fields and during the political debates they had the chance to present their conclusions to the representatives of EU Institutions, including Mr. Ján Figel (Commissioner responsible for education, training, culture and youth).

http://www.youthweek.eu/european-youth-week-in-brussels/conclusions.html

The event was a great occasion to meet MEPs who are the patrons of the Y Vote 2009 campaign, to build up further cooperation with new partners from the European Parliament, European Youth Forum, youth organisations and national youth councils.

SUPS Leon 2008

Firstly i want to start with the words of the project manager of SUPS:

The Summer University Project School took place last week in the beautiful, full of AEGEE-Spirit, city of Leon. Motivated participants, organized and friendly local organizers and dedicated trainers managed to work during day and party during nights for a whole week.

A training is always a training so intensive workshops, experiential games, useful presentations and case work were monopolizing the time of the brave participants.

But, also, eSpain is always eSpain so tortilla, fiesta, siesta, big meals, nice coffee breaks, sunny and smiling people were present for the time in between the sleeping hours (minutes) and the training sessions.

A big thank you to AEGEE-Leon and the participants for this excellent event. A big thanks to SUCT and the Academy for their support and a big big friendly hug to the tireless trainers Kris, Ankie, Agata, Katrin, Tomek, Nikola and Percin.

Vaggelis Monoguios
Project Manager SUPS 2008

Ok my turn :)

I have already experienced a lot of times that 1 week can change a person's life, as this SUPS did mine, and the participants. I was lucky to be involved in this great event, with great participants and great trainers. Whatever handicap we had, we managed to get over it. Whatever we learn, we put more in it.

With about 20 participants and 8 trainers, and of course with our lovely organizers, SUPS Leon turned out more to be than just an event, but also a place to establish strong friendships, motivation and creativity.

I m sure that the participants of this event will be our next SU organizers and SUCT members, hence check out these photos well, because you will see them soon in AEGEE's European field.

Percin Imrek
AEGEE-Europe Projects Director


*Please fill in the Activity Reports for 2008 and Action Plans for 2009 :)

Cheers

@ BEST President's Meeting

First time for me in Romania, first BEST event. They surely spend a lot of money and FR energy on their PM. 5 star hotel at the Black Sea coast is not bad at all. Surprisingly big fondness of singing in this organisation. President is mascot dancing in the middle of the plenary (Dragan, consider it :p). They also like encouraging people to French kiss and have a somewhat cruel way of dealing with weak locals.

Don't forget to also check Anita's open call below :)

Activity Reports 2008 & Activity Plans 2009 Q:A

Once again the time has come for locals to submit their Activity Reports 2008 and Activity PLANS 2009.

The CD is excited and waiting for your input :)

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, still read the short "questions & answers" form bellow:

Q: Where can I find the AR & AP form?
A: http://www.karl.aegee.org/network.nsf?OpenDatabase

Q:Can I see an example?
A: yes, you can find it HERE
(you need to be logged in with your aegee account)

Q: What is the deadline?
A: The deadline is 21.11.2008

Q: Why do I need to do this?
A: It helps us to exaime the status of our Network + it provides crucial info for the General Subvention

Q: What is a "General Subvention"
A: One of our main sources of funding - the Administrative Grant support that AEGEE recieves from the European Commission

Debate by Margot Wallstrom about Irish ' No '

Today i have attended the debate leaded by Margot Wallstrom, the

vice-president of the European Commission, under the topic of '' EU

Communication After the Irish "No". Mrs. Wallström generally talked

about the effect of Irish ' No ' in to other European Union countries,

the elections in United States and the power of Internet for the PR of

future elections, as well as the influence of young people and their

awareness in such topics.



I asked her the question to what extent she personally is aware of

the initiatives from youth associations and how much she supports

them, and mentioned about our Y VOTE 2009 project, since it was the

most coherent project for the days topic. She replied that she would

love to support such great initiatives and promised to be a part of

our project.



The meeting was held in the Representation of the European Commission

in Belgium, about 30 participants including ex-commissioners,

parliementers and journalists.