Dear friends,
after a very succesfull Agora held in our region, here we go with the third lesson.
Again my request to the boards: Please forward it to your fresh members. Thanx!
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Third lesson: STRUCTURE AND BODIES OF AEGEE
As you see there are many possibilities for you to become active: in your local Antenna, in a Working Group, a Project, as a delegate at the Agora ecc.
But let's examine the bodies, one by one, starting from the top.
The Comite Directeur (CD) consists of 9 persons from at least 4 different countries. They are elected by the Agora and they live and work together in the Headoffice in Brussels (the so-called CD House).
The CD is composed of a President, a Secretary General, a Financial Director and six additional members charged with specific tasks: Director for European Institutions, for External Relations, Public Relations, Human Resources, Network Development and Projects.
As a whole, the CD is the administrative and representative body of AEGEE, with responsibility for contacts to the European Union and The Council of Europe.
The Commissions are supporting or controlling bodies to the CD. They are: the Audit Commission, the Members Commission, the Juridical Commission and the Network Commission. The members of the Commissions are elected by the Agora.
The Audit Commission checks the bookkeeping and approves the financial reports of AEGEE bodies (AEGEE-Europe, Locals, Working Groups) and presents a report about its work to the Agora. The 3 financially competent (e.g. Economics students) members have to be from three different AEGEE locals and of course they cannot be members of the CD in order to guarantee the indipendence of this organ.
The Juridical Commission consists of 2 persons from different AEGEE locals (plus one person appointed by the CD). They have legal knowledge (law students) and they are busy not only before and during the Agora (preparing and supervising the voting procedure, counting ballot papers) but even after: they are responsible for updating the CIA - no, not the one you might think about but the Corpus Iuridicum Aegeense which contains the principles, statutes, working formats of the bodies ecc.
Curious? Have a look at it: from the homepage aegee.org follow the link office and AEGEE databases- AEGEE info by type- Corpus Iuridicum.
Apart from that, they verify if the statutes of the locals are conform to the model statute defined by AEGEE-Europe and assist the CD and the locals in legal matters.
The Members Commission is convoked in cases of severe incidents inside the network, trying to investigate the problem and to find an adequate solution.
It is composed by 4 members elected by the Agora plus by the President of the Juridical Commission (and one observer of the CD, but without voting rights).
But who can convoke the Members Commission?
-at least 10 Antennae or
-2 Commissions or
-the CD and one Commission (not the Juridical C.)
Now you might ask yourself what a decision of the Members Commission might consist of?
Well, there are different possibilities: an amicable settlement among the parties or a sentence (that has to be ratified by the following Agora) in which a local might be cancelled, excluded from organizing a Summer University for the next year or loose its voting rights at the Agora for up to 1 year.
So let's say that if everything works properly in AEGEE, the Members Commission is out of work.
Last but not least, the Network Commission. Here we have 10 members: the Netcom Commissioners of each region. They elect one person among theirselves who is the Speaker of the Network Commission. The Network Commissioners support and motivate the locals in their area (to organize european events, for example), stimulate the cooperation among the locals and help to set up new locals but not only: if a new local is "born", they pay special attention to its "first steps" (helping with the organization of their first event..). The Netcommies are some kind of mediators between the locals and the CD as well: since the CD can't care about every single local, the Netcommies assure the flow of comunication between them.
Not for nothing the motto of the Network Commission is to serve and protect.
A special lesson about the Netcom and the Regions will follow later.
The last body for this lesson:
The Liaison Officers represent AEGEE-Europe towards an institution or organisation (for example UNESCO or European Youth Foundation). The CD decides for which institutions a LO should be appointed and decides on the person as well, after having addressed an open call (on the main mailing list) to the network. Anyway the decision has to be ratified by the Agora.
What's the advantage of having LOs?
Well, the contact to institutions is very important for AEGEE - especially if there is the possibility to ask for grants. So we have our special agents who know everything about the policies and programmes of the organisation and inform the network about possibilities of application for those grants - so the chance for receiving them is higher.
Furthermore, they promote and support AEGEE's actions and projects and towards "their" organisation.
Of course LOs speak the official language of the institution and live possibly near to the headquarter in order to assure personal contact.
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This is it for today, next lesson about the other bodies of AEGEE will follow soon.
Rainbowly yours,
Anna
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