THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTION RESPONSIBLE! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Headoffice AEGEE-Europe" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: [AGORA-L] Activity Report Markella Mantika > Activity Report Markella Mantika (European Institutions) > > Name: Markella Mantika > Function: European Institutions / Vice-President > > Local: AEGEE-Athina, AEGEE-Beograd > > Main Responsibilities (just the main points) > Ø External contact to the European Institutions. > Ø Ensuring a communication path between the network and the > Institutions. > Ø Administrative work concerning Applications. > Ø Establishing new contacts to other Institutions / Foundations. > Ø External representation of AEGEE. > Ø Patrons of AEGEE-Europe. > Ø Maintaining good information flow with the L/O (EYF-ECF-BMBF). > > Achievements: > Ø Good contacts to the Institutions. > Ø Funds for projects and general costs. > Ø High profiled Patrons. > Ø Keeping a good External Image of AEGEE. > > Projects for the future: > Ø Submitting new applications. > Ø Research on new ways of funding projects from public funds. > Ø Follow-up on the external contacts and new establishments. > Ø Youth for South East Europe Project. > Ø Turkish-Greek civic dialogue. > > Difficulties faced in your activities > Ø Bureaucracy holds back procedures resulting to less effective > outcome. > Ø Working and living in the same place does not make our tasks and > life easier all the time. > > Travel overview: > > Trip Dates Reason Reimbursed > > Back from Agora 11/11/01 Yes > Belgrade 16-26/11/2001 Youth 4 SEE-I Yes > Istanbul 17-30/12/2001 Youth 4 SEE-II Partly > Hellas 30/12-6/01/2002 Christmas Yes > Hellas 07-23/01/2002 Exams No > Rotterdam 14-15/02/2002 Idealistic Meeting Yes > Delft 23-24/02/2002 Regional Meeting Yes > The Hague 19/03/2002 Nuffic Conference Yes > Helsinki 06-13/03/2002 Spring PM Yes > Hellas 20-31/03/2002 Socrates Promot. Yes/SOTM > Hellas 18-23/04/2002 SOTM F-Conf. Yes/SOTM > Utrecht 27/04-01/05/2002 Quo Vadis F-Conf Yes > Amsterdam 02-05/05/2002 Spring Agora Yes > > > If you asked me some time ago if I would imagine myself living in a > house with another 9 people away from the greek sun, my friends and > all that I left behind, I would be answering: No way! Well the fact > remains one. I did the high jump and here I came after my election > six months ago in Ankara. I never regretted this decision, even in > the worst moments when everything was going wrong or the motivation > was simply on vacation. > > Moving to Brussels and adjusting to the new environment and the > demands of the task took me some time, but I was glad to have Pedro > around all the time giving me hints and advising me on several > things. The truth is that when I came here I couldn't possibly > imagine that there would be all this workload and all kinds of things > coming up, though I realized that if you have a good time management > and you prioritize, then everything gets smoother and no panic is > needed. I owe this hint to Pedro who showed me how to cope with such > situations. > > Concerning my actual work I was focusing on establishing more > contacts in the European Parliament as well as maintaining good > contact with the already existing ones. This resulted in a very > strong support of some of the Members of the EP to several of our > projects, taking as an example the follow-up internal meetings > arranged for the Youth for South East Europe Project as well as with > the presentation of results for the Borderless Europe last Yearplan > Project. Further in the contact to the European Institutions, meeting > the European Commission, mainly the Directorate General Education and > Culture and presenting them our projects, our new ideas for getting > their input was also very pleasant, nevertheless, there are occasions > in which the situation can be ineffective. The external > representation has been also taking place through attendance to > several conferences, forums, debates, hearings, receptions and > contact to other associations like the European Policy Centre and > Friends of Europe. > > Going into the administrative part of the task, my work has been the > submission of applications for funding projects and general costs. > Applications for the European Commission, to the Council of Europe > for training courses in SEE and to the Youth Foundation were the main > items covering this aspect. Sometimes you get the impression that > whatever you do is not this much rewarding especially when you keep > on waiting for a positive answer for the projects you submit an > application for. Some of the achievements and rewarding moments > hopefully will be the ones when we manage to get the maximum grant > for the General Subvention once more. Moreover, I took care of the > Project Investment Fund along with Dominika and Pedro and found > speakers for conferences that our locals are organising. I took over > the Patrons of AEGEE-Europe which was extremely interesting duty, as > I dealt with people who support our Association morally. In this > field I was glad to receive two people of major importance for our > Association, the President of the European Commission Romano Prodi > and the President of the European University Association Eric Froment > (previous European Rectors Conference). > > My task is so wide that it allows further expansion exploring new > ways of approach in the Institutional field in order to achieve more > for our Association. Adding to them the keeping in touch with the > Liaison Officers for the Youth and Cultural Foundations as well as > with the BMBF (German Ministry for Education and Research) and some > lobbying cover a general view of my activity until now. > > I feel the need to stress out something crucial for me. We are living > and working in a multiethnic team where there are a lot of > miscommunication problems and they are not always easy to handle as > there are many misunderstandings. As a team > although we had our problems in the beginning, had our ups and downs > but we > managed to work it out and achieve a great cooperation along with a > good time in > the house during our term. > > It would be a pity not to mention how grateful I am to the people > that kept on > supporting me in and out of this house, especially Pedro my > predecessor, my > network friends all over at any moment, giving me precious help and > unmentionable > motivation to go on doing what I started with such enthusiasm. A big > thank you goes to all of you who gave me your trust through your vote > and will also be reading this report. (hopefully!) > ============================================================================= RAINBOW-L is a regional discussion list of AEGEE. Check out http://www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/archives for the archives of public lists. To unsubscribe send 'unsubscribe RAINBOW-L' to [log in to unmask]