THE PRESIDENT! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Headoffice AEGEE-Europe" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 11:30 PM 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. > > ============================================================================= 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]