THE NETWORK 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 Hakan Gümüs > Activity Report Hakan Gümüs (Network) > > Name: Hakan Gumus > Function: Network Responsible > Local: AEGEE-Ankara > > Main responsibilities > · Contact to locals, updating list of antennae, contact antennae and > contacts > · Administration of activity reports of locals > · Contact between CD and Network Commission > · Contact to the Adress Book Coordination Team > · Contact to the Juridical Commission > · Organizing the Netcom Meeting > · Managing the network > > Achievements: > · Good cooperation with the Network Commission > · Netcom meeting in Passau > · Network trips: D-A-C-H Region and North Region > · First steps of institutionalization of the Netcom Team > · Stressing more Western Europe in our network > · More coherence in the network > · Importance of antenna criteria > > Projects for the future > · Strengthening South/West Region > · Increasing the importance of Regional Meetings > · Having at least one sub-commissioner from every single country in > the region, creating more powerful Netcom teams. > · Stressing more the regional level > · Decentralization > · Transparency about the decision making process > > Difficulties faced in your task > · Hard to cover the entire network matters from Brussels > · Personal financial problems > > From Until Where? Why? Reimbursed? > 29.11.01 04.11.01 Thessaloniki RM Yes > 05.12.01 Brussels Arrival Yes > 21.12.01 23.12.01 Passau Netcom Meeting Interrail / Yes > 05.01.02 19.01.02 DACH Reg. Network trip Interrail > 13.01.02 13.01.02 Eindhoven RM Interrail > 26.01.02 27.01.02 Maastricht EUnited Yes > 14.02.02 15.01.02 Rotterdam Idealist Meeting Yes > 18.02.02 06.02.02 Ankara Holidays Yes > 06.02.02 13.02.02 Helsinki PM Interrail / Yes > 13.0302 29.03.02 North Region Network trip Interrail / Yes > 02.05.02 05.02.02 Amsterdam Agora Yes > > I faced with the reality that I should have organized the Netcom > Meeting after I reached the headoffice as the new Network > responsible. I needed to update the network research and to > understand the entire functioning in two weeks time before the Netcom > Meeting in Passau. > > All together with the Network Commissioners we had been discussing > about regional division, monthly reports, efficiency of Regional > Meetings, importance of the antenna criteria, 2004 Enlargement, its > effect on AEGEE and most importantly the strategy of the network > during our term. I must say that sometimes the tension was really > high but I guess those hard discussions brought us closer. The Netcom > Team has a special spirit and the newcomers are and will be adopting > it easily. > > Just after the Netcom Meeting I arranged my first network trip mainly > in DACH Region with the help of AEGEE-Passau. The locals I visited > are the following: Innsbruck, Vienna, München, Toulouse, Osnabrück, > Münster, Hamburg, Mannheim, Tübingen, Freiburg. The most important > deficiency was Internal Education in the German speaking area. In > cooperation with the Academy and Matina we are dealing with the > problem. > > I have visited two Regional Meetings as Network Responsible. One was > in Thessaloniki; Balkania Region and the second one was in Eindhoven, > North-West Region. > > I moderated a workshop in the PM together with Davide Calenda and > Enrico Lai about many crucial points for our network. The will of a > change and the idea of preparing new proposals for the Agora > Amsterdam came out of this workshop. > > After PM Helsinki, I started my second network trip mainly in the > Northern Region. Including these locals: Tampere, Oulu, Turku/Abo, > Jyvaskyla, Uppsala, Linkoping, Stockholm, Malmo, Lund, Oslo, > Copenhagen and Berlin. Scandinavia is getting closer to the European > issues lately but active student life in other organizations and > competition between them should be taken into consideration. > > I have no complaints about anybody in the Comité Directeur. We all > together experienced the difficulties of a multi-cultural team. > Nobody said that it would be easy. Very important thing that I learnt > in AEGEE you never have the chance to choose your colleagues also in > the working environment outside but you can try to find the common > ways and try to love them. > > I had joined AEGEE believing in its ideals and amazed by the > practical achievements made so far. I was always critical about many > points in our Association. This didn't change after my CD term. Some > call me 'dreamer' when they think my points are unrealistic and > unfeasible. I was always trying to push AEGEE where it really belongs > to. During all my network trips I used a harsh language and just > tried to convince people to aim high. It is great to know that at > least in some locals I achieved to transfer the AEGEE idealism. > > Surely I will always remember my CD term as a special time period of > my life. Not > only with its nice points but also the things I suffered from. It is > obviously a unique > experience. > > Lastly, thanks to AEGEE-Ankara for teaching me great things, which > will always > influence the rest of my life. Thanks to the participants of ES Praha > and the ones who still have the Praha spirit. Special thanks to every > single CD member with whom I was working for 6 months learning from > each of them. ============================================================================= 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]