Hello rainbow people,

the regional meeting in TOrino, 15-17 november was a success.Special
thanks go to AEGEE Torino and the Rainbow team, in particular Nicola
Rega and Davide Calenda.
Thank you also to all those who attended the regional meeting as
participants!
For all those who were not able to attend, the following are the
minutes taken during the meeting:-

number of participants : around 60
 ***Friday 15th : ice-breaking games, getting to know each other.

 ***Saturday 16th  morning : team -building workshops.

1st workshop : individual and group exercises around a short story
intended to become aware of contrasting cultural values and trying to
reach a compromise within each team that was not an easy task.

2nd workshop : practical workshop around a simulation of a group of
engineers and a population using a different social code and language.
the workshop was followed by the particpants' feedback and personal
experiences regarding cultural schock and cultural integration.

Rainbow region debate :

presences :rainbow netcom team :davide calenda,amedeo ferrara,luca
falcone,fabrizio fantini,nicola rega,giselle spiteri miggiani.

antennas and contacts present :

Treviso (GIorgia Buffi, Luca Zaninotto)
Torino (Nicola Rega, Gianmario Patrucco, Ennio Legrottaglie, Rubina
Losapia,Marco Ragozzi,Stefano scarlatta)
Pavia (ROberta Tilocca, Giulietta Banzi,Monica Weber, Geraldine
CLement)
Lyon (Eric Neil)
Napoli (Luca Falcone, AMedeo Ferrara, DOmenico Scuotto,Eleonora
Campione/Salerno)
Bologna (valentina Lucci)
Pisa (Giancarlo Zigitella)
Firenze (Paolo Santoni, Giselle SPiteri Miggiani,Alberto Lenza)
Rome ( Tiberio Tassinari, Fabrizio Fantini/Termoli)
Ferrara (Elena Benvenuti, Antonella Stefano)
Venezia (Marco Zagreb,Davide Calenda/Europe)
Macerata (Irene Crocieri , Frediana Capone,Jessica Starnadoni,Erica
Caimmi,ALessio Mari)
Berlin (Kian Tragsdof) Zurich (Barbara Strebel)

Introduction to debate :Power Point presentation + lecture by Davide
Calenda :
- introducing netcom team
- division of aegee in regions
- network statistics :number of locals,members etc . over the past
years.
- new antennas,future antennas
- comparison with other regions
-  rainbow candidates for european 'posts'

questions and feedback from participants.

debate :the past,present and future of the  Rainbow region...
important points discussed :

- awareness of each local inserted in a wider context, first and
foremost regional then european.how does each local consider itself?
how do outside antennas consider the rainbow region, what
characterizes the region,what do rainbow locals have in common apart
from the geographical closeness?

-even though largest number of locals in italy, the highest number of
members per local regard the locals outside Italy. does for example
valletta feel part of the region?do any antennas feel isolated?

- the importance of 'new' people during regional meeting,contact
macerata, 5 people present at meeting, future birth of aegee macerata.
also Aegee Pisa strenghtens also thanks to Aegee Firenze's support,
hence, the importance of feeling part of the region and being helped
and supported by netcom team but also by nearby antennas.

-regional accomplishments :
development of Internal education within the region,many IE events.
support given by expert locals...moving towards a even more united
region,
many locals in practice do use the region  as a bridge between the
local and Aegee Europe and they find it very useful.

- linguistic problem : sometimes Italian antennas tend to isolate
themselves due to an 'english language' problem that sometimes acts as
a drawback to them.

- it is also important to subdivide the region once again having
subcommissioners who are close and can give a more practical support.

- necessity of IE events even within locals to explain to the members
that AEGEE is much more complex then what they see only on local level.

2nd session : the future

- the wish to create AEGEE in Alessandria/vercelli/novara

- more contacts and collaboration with French antennas. Lyon : idea of
an internal education event in Lyon inviting people from south of
france, but also northern italy,torino and surroundings.

- discussion on internal education within region

- new ideas on different kinds of events

- promoting AEGEE as a school of life for recruitment of members -
learning personal skills through AEGEE.how to propose
AEGEE...sometimes risk of being considered as a travel agency...IE
within local needed to avoid this.

- difficulties with some antennas to find new members especially
active members....how to solve this problem..

-power point presentation by Nicola Rega regarding his projects of his
sub-region (north italy)

****Sunday 17th
introductory lecture on what the agora consist of.
Agora simulation involving the active participation of everyone!
parts of agora tackled..registration,candidates, voting
system,problems that might crop up during agora in order to learn
certain rules.

closure of regional meeting!!


- giselle spiteri miggiani-
  rainbow subcommissioner
  secretary visa freedom fighters
  vice-president aegee firenze
  member AEGEE Napoli, Valletta.

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