Hi again, Fani asked me to remind you about workshop and following discussion about AEGEE future and role played by our association, on friday at the agora . Delegates from all locals will be called by ROLL CALL during the friday afternoon 16.45 plenary, to express thir opinion. Be prepared ! > Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 17:53:03 +0200 > Reply-To: Fani Zarifopoulou/AEGEE/FR > <[log in to unmask]> > Sender: Network Commission of AEGEE Europe > <[log in to unmask]> > From: Fani Zarifopoulou/AEGEE/FR > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Reminder for the discussion in the AGORA! > Content-Type:multipart/alternative; > > Discussion on the future of AEGEE! > > On the occasion of the 15th Anniversary of AEGEE, we invite you all to > take part in a discussion on the future of our association. This > discussion will take place during the -- afternoon plenary session on > Friday 5th of May -- > You can find below a text, we would like you to read carefully and to > prepare in your local a short statement (around 300 words) on the points > raised and the questions asked. We want all to hear how YOU see the future > of this association. > There will be a roll-call for all locals to come forward and make a > statement. > There is no discussion planned afterwards, > only the possibility of a shorter second round. The floor is yours to > take, and we encourage you to take this opportunity and voice your > opinion. After all it is you, who decide on the future of AEGEE!! > > «After 15 years since its founding conference in Paris, AEGEE has > undoubtedly changed a lot. Europe has changed a lot ever since. At the > time when AEGEE was created, Western European countries did not form the > European Union yet, but a less integrated European Community, while > Eastern and Central Europe stayed in the Soviet bloc. In 1987 AEGEE > declared e.g. that its "first geographical priority is the EC, where > pro-European ideas are most developed". > > In the years passed we have been caught by surprise with historic events. > After the fall of the Iron Curtain AEGEE opened up to Central and Eastern > Europe to become a truly European organisation. > > Since the EGEE I conference in 1985, many AEGEE generations have passed, > each one causing a slight change in the direction of the organisation, > realising their ideas for projects and internal development. > > One initial element of AEGEE stayed the same from the very beginning, that > AEGEE is not made up of national branches. > > Considering the great thematic diversity of our activities and the variety > of its forms, at the dawn of the new millennium we are now about to ask > ourselves if we are still what we claim to be: > > -a student organisation that promotes integration among young people in > Europe, and > -a voluntary non-governmental politically independent association that > puts the idea of a unified Europe into practice? > > What are the reasons for today's existence of AEGEE? What role should we > play? What are now our challenges, ambitions, and aims?» > > ------------------------------------------ > Fani Zarifopoulou > President AEGEE-Europe > > Rue Nestor de Tière 15 > B-1030 Brussels > tel.: +32-2-245 23 00 > fax: +32-2-245 62 60 > > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > ------------------------------------------ > > ============================================================================= MISC-REG-L is hosted on aegeeserv courtesy of AEGEE-Karlsruhe. Check out http://www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/archives for the archives of public lists. To unsubscribe send 'unsubscribe MISC-REG-L' to [log in to unmask]