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THE PRESIDENT!

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Subject: [AGORA-L] Activity Report Pedro Panizo


> Activity Report Pedro Panizo (President)
>
> Name: Pedro Panizo
> Function: President
> Locals: AEGEE-Valladolid, AEGEE-Beograd and AEGEE-Passau
>
> Main Responsibilities:
> §       Ensure the work of the Comité Directeur as a team and ssupport its
> members where necessary, §      external representation: to European
> institutions and other organisations §  focus on thematic work and
> drafting of position papers/policy statements § contact to Les
> Anciens. §      IT management in the head office
>
> Main Achievements:
> -       Good results of the work of the Comité Directeur
> -       Excellent relations with the European Commission, especially with
> DG
> Education and Culture, and with the European Parliament. -      Policy
> Making: Debate on the Future of Europe, Positions in the meetings of
> the Council of Europe. -        Ensuring funding from public and private
> sector.
>
> Main difficulties encountered in my task:
> -       Situation after AGORA-Ankara complicated for a smooth start.
> -       IT responsibilities require long time and need to be taken out
from
> external tasks. -       Lack of experience of many members of the CD,
which
> resulted in not having all the necessary time devoted to external
> representation.
>
> Travel overview:
>
> From            Until           Where?  Why?
Reimbursed?
> 24.10.01        30.10.01        Ankara  Agora                   Yes
> 30.10.01        05.11.01        Spain           Personal                No
> 05.11.01        07.11.01        Strasbourg      Council of Europe
Yes / IR
> 14.11.01        15.11.01        Budapest        Council of Europe
Yes / IR
> 16.11.01        17.11.01        Gdansk  Regional Meeting
AEGEE-Gdansk
> 23.11.01        25.11.01        Beograd Youth for SEE   AEGEE-Beograd
> 05.12.01                Louvain-la-Neuve        FR/McKinsey     Yes
> 21.12.01        07.01.02        Spain   Christmas
Yes
> 01.02.02                Amsterdam       Agora Meeting
Yes
> 03.02.02                Rotterdam       EURECAMeeting           Yes
> 12.02.02                Brugge  College of Europe Meeting       Yes
> 15.02.02        16.02.02        Rotterdam       Idealistic Meeting
Yes
> 04.03.02                London  FR/Meeting Hobsons              Yes
> 06.03.02        13.03.02        Helsinki        Planning Meeting
Yes
> 21.03.02                Delft   General Mailing
Yes
> 04.04.02        07.04.02        Enschede        EURECA Opening  Yes
> 10.04.02        14.04.02        Cluj-Napoca     EURECA Conference
Yes
> 19.04.02        21.04.02        Athina  Final Conference of SOTM
Yes
> 02.05.02        05.05.02        Amsterdam       AGORA
Yes
>
>
>
> AGORA in Ankara was a very tough starting for our team. The situation
> of having two candidates for president, stirred-up personal feelings
> which were not constructive for the beginning. Overcoming these
> difficulties, understanding the work as a team and becoming a group
> with a single voice was a challenge we agreed to take. I must say
> that for me as well as for most of my fellows it has been one of the
> points from which we have learnt more in the last months. In any case
> we can say that working as a team is a task that we achieved opposing
> all the difficulties presented.
>
> It is difficult to summarize in two pages the work of six months but
> I will try to write a succession of the most important events that
> happened.
>
> Starting from the part of External Representation, right after the
> AGORA I had the chance to attend the Liaison Meeting of NGOs with the
> Council of Europe, where a declaration for further cooperation with
> the Parliamentarians was drafted and as representative of AEGEE I had
> the chance to include several points concerning the involvement of
> Youth and mobility issues. After this meeting, I was invited to a
> second one in Budapest where the topics were more focused on mobility
> and migration and was a very good opportunity to present a brief
> summary of the results of Borderless Europe, our YearPlan Project of
> 2000. Further work in this field is working with the Education
> Charter and hopefully I will be able to give you more information at
> the time of the AGORA.
>
> With the European Union the relations were more and more tightened.
> With the European Commission, we can say the image of AEGEE has
> improved. Attending meetings with key personalities inside the
> Commission, discussing with them about our projects and orientation
> helped us be more recognised up to the point that we are consulted in
> more and more issues in the topics that AEGEE is involved. Concrete
> results in this field we can see in the new project, the Future of
> Europe Debate, the fact that AEGEE took over the Final Conference of
> Socrates on the Move and the involvement of AEGEE in future
> activities related to Socrates. The European Year of Languages was as
> well one of the moments where AEGEE had the chance to be visible. At
> the final Conference in the European Parliament, Marieke (AEGEE-
> Utrecht) and me we had the chance to present the Language Policy
> Paper of AEGEE.
>
> With the European Parliament the relations have been as well
> improved. Several members of the Parliament support our activities
> and projects, which it is very important for our visibility and
> impact.
>
> The external representation did not end up here. Attending seminars
> and receptions from different representations and embassies, media
> partners, think tanks as the European Policy Centre and Friends of
> Europe, different Fairs and other organisations was a good option to
> present AEGEE and to establish a network of contacts. Inside AEGEE I
> also had the chance to attend several meetings such as the RM in
> Gdansk, Youth for South East Europe in Beograd and the conferences of
> EURECA in Enschede and Cluj-Napoca.
>
> As well during this term I have cooperated to the funding of the
> activities of AEGEE. Application to Discussions organised by NGOs
> concerning European Issues and to the Future of Europe, as well as
> the General Subvention with the help from Markella and Karina all of
> them to the European Commission were submitted, as well as the Final
> Conference of Socrates on the Move (25.000 Euro granted) or the
> Administrative grant of the Council of Europe and Applications for
> Summer University and EURECA to UNESCO, for EURECA to the Spanish
> Ministry of Foreigner Affairs, with the help of Karina and Dominika.
> In the private sector I had also the chance to negotiate the
> agreement of our new partner Hobsons who is supporting our budget
> with 3.000 Euro.
>
> In the field of PR I had the chance to enjoy a very good cooperation
> with Tomek and together with Karolina Pomorska and Karina we had the
> chance to be visible in different media with our opinions, even
> having the chance to get an interview broadcasted all over the
> continent by EuroNews.
>
> Projects: EURECA and Future of Europe: I joined the coordination of
> EURECA in the end of last year and as responsible of the coordination
> of the external representation. I had the occasions to present our
> project to many different institutions. About the Future of Europe
> Debate you will know more at the AGORA since at the moment the
> negotiation with the European Commission is still carried on as well
> as with the 1.000.000 ERASMUS celebration. In any case those projects
> are running smoothly and the rest of the projects were taken good
> care by Krzysztof.
>
> IT difficulties: The task of being President as you can see from the
> previous paragraphs requires a lot of time and when having to combine
> it with the IT in the office is complicated. Besides we did not have
> any expert IT person who could take care of this task. Thanks to the
> help of Calin, Wim and AEGEE-Aachen we could solve the problems that
> aroused. In the near future we are implementing having an IT
> stagiaire in the office.
>
> Time for changes in AEGEE Europe: After having taken some time in
> Rotterdam to discuss about the aims and structure and converse later
> with you at the PM Helsinki, we came up with three proposals that you
> will have the chance to present and debate during the AGORA,
> concerning the aims of AEGEE, the structure improvements and the next
> YearPlan focusing the direction of AEGEE. We hope to see you active
> and ready to discuss with us about those ideas.
>
> Finally, I would like to say that after these six months I will end
> my term in the CD,
> but I do not want to miss this last opportunity to say thank you to
> all of you who
> have helped us to work in Brussels and to make out of AEGEE something
> a little bit
> better. Thank you to the people I had the pleasure to work with,
> especially Karina,
> Voichita, Ivana, Carlos, Dominika, Anca, Tomek, Krzysztof and Matina.
> As well
> Oana, Calin, Dan, Stefan, Wim, Koen, Yuriy, Gina, Betina, Geert,
> Magda, Linda,
> Grzegorz, Igor, Ernesto and Gian Marco. The work with these people
> and their
> support in our work has given me the motivation to carry this task.
> As well thank
> you to all of you that gave me the chance to be here and to work for
> you. I am looking forward to having the chance to discuss and present
> all these reports in Amsterdam.
>
>

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