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European Level

AEGEE-Delft is one of the local of the international student network of AEGEE-Europe. Since the establishment in 1985, AEGEE has grown up to become a student organization which covers the most part of Europe (more information in 'the history of AEGEE'). AEGEE-Europe has now 241 locals in 40 different countries all over Europe. From Moscow to Sevilla, nearly each European country has its AEGEE. What joins those 15.000 people together is the interest into culture and travelling, en ... Europe! AEGEE is a platform where students can talk about the future of Europe. It maybe sounds very serious, but having in mind that it's a very important theme, it also means that you get in touch with AEGEE-members from each part of Europe. And it's not only useful, but also very funny!

Missions

AEGEE is very active in four domains:

  • Cultural exchanges
    The AEGEE-exchange program par excellence is of course the SU program in the summer. But also during the year, weekly a lot of events are taking place.

  • Active participation to the society
    AEGEE wants to make the students realise of the importance to be active in the society, by participating to society's debates concerning European themes, globalisation, entegration, etc. Within the AEGEE-network, jong people share their opinion on actual themes.

  • Higher education
    AEGEE was founded when the Erasmus still didn't exist. In fact the real story is that the AEGEE-board at that time told the French president Mitterand about the necessity of a European program as the Erasmus program!
  • Peace and stability
    AEGEE wants the values on which Europe is build to spread and stay actual. This includes among other things democracy, the free expression of opinion, the open-mindedness and tolerance.

AEGEE makes no differences between countries - there are for example no AEGEE-Holland. Contacts within AEGEE goes from locals to locals. Of course people knows the locals coming from there own language area better then those at the other side of Europe, but this has only to do with distances. For example, AEGEE-Maastricht has a closer relation with AEGEE-Köln than with AEGEE-Groningen.  Within AEGEE, borders have only few importance.

The AEGEE is politicly neutral and not related to a religion. The aim of AEGEE is an open and tolerant society, now and for the future.


How does AEGEE works?

AEGEE has in the course of year grown to a big, semi-professional organization. AEGEE-Europe is coordinated by a central board called the Comité Directeur (CD). This board is directed by 9 representatives coming from different AEGEE-locals. During one year, the work full time for AEGEE. There head office is in the heart of Europe - Brussels. The CD's first task is the coordination of all the locals. They work for a framework where the different departments can find each other, en bring people from all parts of Europe together to form working groups working on the organisation of the Summer University, higher education, visa-bureaucracy, or projects in order to convince jong people to go and vote at the European elections.


AEGEE-Europe also have committees to support its own functioning, like AEGEE-Delft has:

  • Audit committee: controls the finances of AEGEE.
  • Juridical committee: support the CD en all AEGEE-locals on the juridical area, for example for the setting up of statutes of niew AEGEE-locals.
  • IT-committee: maintenance of the IT infrastructure of AEGEE-Europe.
  • Network committee: keep the AEGEE network active. They support AEGEE-locals, stimulate them to remain or become active en helps them for the setting up of new locals. Whenever you have a question about your AEGEE-local, they will be able to answer you.


AGORA

Two times a year, the delegates of each AEGEE-locals come together to discuss about the development of the society. This is called the "AGORA". Each year, it takes place in an other AEGEE-city. AEGEE having 241 local, imagine how big the event is!

The AGORA is the general members meeting of AEGEE-Europe en is organized 2 times a year. 800 AEGEE-members come together as delegates to a guest city somewhere in Europe. During three days, they discuss about propositions, take decisions, give workshops and there is of course als a social program.

Liaison Officers

The Liaison Officers are the face of AEGEE to the outside. On this way, AEGEE can defend its point of view to international social organisations. For example, AEGEE has liaison offices for the united nations, the UNESCO and the European youth organizations.


For more information, check on the website of AEGEE-Europe, www.aegee.org.