Dear Rainbow-people, first of all I wish you a HAPPY 2005 FULL OF JOY – and of course AEGEE-events - on behalf of the Rainbow-team. Back from the holidays, it’s time now for the last lesson of this online-course where I’m going to talk about... EVENTS! ******************************************************************************** 5th lesson: THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF EVENTS IN AEGEE As you know, in order to know about the events, you can visit www.aegee.org/events and subscribe to EVENT-L. But how to find some orientation in the jungle of the many many events? First, a hint to the difference between local and european events: Local events are organized by an AEGEE local and are not announced in the calendar of events. Those events do not involve AEGEE-Europe and they can be hold in any language. An example? Most locals organize various activities for erasmus students like trips ecc.; or the local Agora where all the members of the local meet. European events are organized by one or more locals or other bodies (like working groups). This event is announced in the online-calendar and all AEGEE members can apply. The fee should be kept as low as possible and include at least lodging and 2 meals. Often 2 or more locals organize an exchange for their members (thus, it’s not open for everybody) but they are considered european events as well. AEGEE-Europe Events are organized by at least 2 locals from different countries and deal with an european topic. Of course AEGEE-Europe has to decide whether an event can have this status or not. But which events can be part of it? First of all, the statutory events like Agora and EBM (what’s that? Just keep on reading :) but even events within AEGEE-Europe Projects and Yearplan Projects (find out more about it on the homepage, going to Projects). The dates for the non-local events has to be confirmed by the Comité Directeur because it should be avoided that more european events take place at the same time. This is not always possible but at least during the Agora it should work… Now let’s start with some practical explanation. I already mentioned the statutory meetings: Agora and European Boards Meeting. The Agora is the General Assembly where about 1000 AEGEE-members meet twice a year (Spring and Autumn Agora – you remember the last one in Torino) in order to discuss proposals, strategies and projects for the next term. Also the Comite Directeur, the members of the 4 Commissions and of some Project Teams (like the Summer University Coordination Team and the Find Europe CT) and the Secretary and Chairperson of the Agora/EBM are elected at the Agora. Furthermore, the Agora approves the Moral Report of the CD, the Financial Report and the Budget pesented by the Treasurer and any modifications to the Statute of AEGEE-Europe (for example, at the last Agora some linguistic corrections of the Statute were approved). So as you see the Agora is the hugest and most important event within AEGEE. If you never attended one, don’t loose the Spring Agora in May in Enschede! The second statutory meeting is the EBM which will take place for the first time in march in Malta. The European Boards Meeting (until some months ago called Planning Meeting) takes place once a year (at least 1 month before the Spring Agora). It is a kind of staff-meeting: the WGs, Commissions, Project Teams and of course the CD have to participate, while the local boards send their delegates (and only delegates-visitors are an ecception). As you can see, the EBM has a concrete target group: the decision-makers within AEGEE. This “restriction” should lead to more concrete results for the workshops (huge part of the EBM takes part in the form of workshops) Also the CD presents the update of the strategy plan in advance so that the boards can comment it according to the proposals and the workshop results. So the CD can modify the strategy plan for the next Agora where it has to be approved. An important tool for AEGEE are the Internal Education Events organized by the Academy with the help of experienced AEGEE-members as trainers. The main one is the European School: one week of intense work consisting in lectures, simulations and case-working will introduce the participants to more or less all aspects of AEGEE – how to run an Antenna, how to raise funds, how to attract new members etc. For the advanced ones who want to become active on european level, there is the European School 2, dealing with project management and the development of skills for working in a team. Then, we have the thematic European Schools, dedicated to a particular topic: PRES (Public Relations), FRES (Fund Raising), ITES (Information Technology) and SUPS (Summer University Project School- in order to learn how to organize a great SU, with all its aspects like task division, FR, treasury, dealing with participants..) But what about the trainers? Well, they have their “own” IE event: Training for Trainers, where they learn how to prepare succesful IE events. IE events do exist not only on European level but even on local level: the LTC (Local Training Course) takes place during a weekend and is a good way to motivate the members of the near locals, giving them the possibility to learn about AEGEE and to get to know the aegee-people of the near Antennae. Also the Regional Meeting is an opportunity to hold some lectures and caseworking, apart from the discussions about regional matters. Btw, the next European School will take place soon: from 25th march to 4th april in Bucharest – don’t miss it, it’s a great experience! Other types of events are seminars and conferences (dealing with topical interest, often organized by WGs or Project Teams), AEGEE-meetings (like a Regional Meeting), exchanges and of course celebrations (like the 20th anniversary of AEGEE-Europe this year) and recreation (ski-weeks..). Within the events there are some being part of an AEGEE Project (like Summer Universities, Find Europe events etc) – Marino will send a presentation about the Projects soon. This is supposed to be the last lesson but if you have questions or suggestions about anything AEGEE-related what we could discuss on Rainbow-L, just let us know! It would be really a pity using it only for the announcement of events, don’t you think? :) Rainbowly yours, Anna ****************************************** Anna Karger Vice-president & External Relations AEGEE-Firenze & AEGEE-Siena Subcommissioner of the Rainbow Region Find Europe Coordination Team Network care http://www.aegee.uni-karlsruhe.de/fect/ ****************************************** --------------------------------- Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! ============================================================================= 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]