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4th lesson: GEOGRAPHICALLY DEFINED BODIES
In this lesson I will talk about locals, regions and the Netcom.
Let’s start with the locals:
The birth of a local
Once upon a time there was a little but enthusiastic group of students in a city called Somewhere. They heard about AEGEE and decided to join, but… there was no local in their city! No problem, they thought – we could create a new local! So they contacted the CD and set up a Contact. Soon they had their own statute and lots of ideas about their future activities and so they were ready to become Contact Antenna. They signed the Convention d’Adhésion at the following Agora and became officially AEGEE-Somewhere. Within one year they organized their first event and finally they became an Antenna.
So as you see the first step is always set up a contact, together with a group of at least 10 interested people. The statute has to be approved by AEGEE-Europe and the Juridical Commission. There are model statutes so it’s quite easy.
Maybe you remember from the last Agora when all the plenary was singing and clapping hands- well that was the moment when the new locals signed the Convention d’Adhésion, the contract between the local and AEGEE-Europe which gives to the local the right to adopt the denomination AEGEE-(city).
But still, the local is “only” a Contact-Antenna (this means for example that they don’t have voting right at the Agora). To become an Antenna it has to organize within one year an european event (for example a Summer Event within the Summer University project) and of course pay the membership fees and send a financial report and a members list, just as every local.
Once the local is upgraded to Antenna, it has some obligations in order to remain an Antenna, like sending delegates to the statutory meetings, sending financial and activity reports, organizing european events at least every 2 years…
If they don’t fulfill the criteria, they might be downgraded to Contact-Antenna again and then cancelled.
Who wants to found a local has to contact the CD but of course lots of help can come from the Network Commissioner of the Region and his team who can motivate the new local and help them with the first steps.
Some “history” about the Network: In 1988, AEGEE was present in only 9 countries with about 40 locals. After ’89 locals in
At the moment the countries with the most Antennae are
How huge is the network now? Well, AEGEE is present in 260 cities in 42 countries.. that’s not bad! :)
As I told in the second lesson, AEGEE doesn’t have any national level but in order to create a “bridge” between the CD in
Their task is to “serve and protect” – they enhance the comunication between the CD and the locals, they motivate the locals, help to found new ones and to prevent others from being cancelled.
But not only: they can be mediators if there are serious problems in a local, they keep personal contact and friendship to the boards of the single Antennae and, last but not least, they organize the Regional Meeting. This is a meeting for the active members, where to discuss about the future of the region and of course to get to know better your neighbours.
Sooo, if you have any AEGEE-related problems, you know who to approach ;)
Last thing for today, some words about the Connections: they are “partners” of AEGEE, collaborating with our association but they are not part of the AEGEE-Network. At the moment there is only one Connection, in
Next lesson about the different types of events VERY soon!
Your Subcommie,
Anna