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AEGEE Monthly Review, August 2006 |
In this issue:
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The Intercultural Flat Share
Exchange between Canakkale, Enschede, Passau and Sofia
Following our ideals that the key to true mutual understanding is
feeling “comfortable” with each other, we let European integration
be what it is: a multicultural living together! In collaboration
with  Take Control and the EuroIslam
Team we launched a unique experiment pushing this metaphor to the
extreme: the European Flat Share. Muslim and Christian Europeans
united under one roof.
Dividing ourselves up into 4-country-flats
this exchange was a week full of challenges, magic moments, and
laughs clanging to Brussels ;-) 7 days, 7 rooms. Teaching you
“European relaxing methods” ;-) on the living-room-day, stepping
onto the feet of Bavarian folklore dancers on the party-cellar-day,
having juicy discussions on intercultural relationships on the
bedroom-day and getting totally crazy in the Aquarium Bar on the
bathroom-day, we fed ourselves with our cultures slowly. What the
authorities call “cultural xenophobia” we wanted to grasp from its
root: Not relying on each other's knowledge , but tackling our
private lives, making this the most personal European
experience.
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Football is coming home
The event “Football is coming home” took place from the 29-th of
June till the  3-rd of July. Part of the program
were two city tours (the first one around Mannheim and the second
one around Heidelberg), the biggest student open-air party in
Germany, all WC-quarterfinals at public viewing places, a visit of
the beautiful little town of Bretten with its medieval Peter and
Paul- Festival and finally the World Erasmus Cup in Heidelberg,
where 12 teams played against each other. The traditional European
Night took place saturday night.
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Regional Training Course in
Heidelberg, 24-25th of June
Our newest drink-- the famous RTC Heidelberg cocktail. It is easy
to make, just try it yourself!
INGREDIENTS:
- 6 fantastic locals, 13 motivated participants and 9
experienced trainers*
- the beautiful city of Heidelberg (if necessary it can be
replaced by another city)
- interesting lectures, workshops, case-work and of course a lot
of fun!
Take 13 participants from 6 locals and make them meet in sunny
Heidelberg  (or wherever). Divide the
participants into funny fictive locals. Then add 9 trainers
and tutors. Make the whole group enjoy interactive lectures and
workshops, a romantic barbecue night at the Neckar beach and of
course a thrilling World Cup football match!
*Numbers can be varied according to the taste of the
cocktail-maker.
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Local Training Course Augsburg
The Local Training Course took place from 01.07.-02.07.06 at the
University of  Augsburg and was focused on
knowledge transfer for new active members. About ten participants
from AEGEE München and AEGEE Augsburg participated in the workshops
held by Board Members of both antennae. In workshops like
Introduction to AEGEE, Fundraising, Public Relations and “How to run
a local” the participants could improve their knowledge for getting
active on local level. A nice barbecue on Saturday evening offered
time for relaxing and getting to know better the active members from
each local.
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Training for Democracy
In the framework of AEGEE's yearplan project in 2006 a small but
rather enthusiastic group gathered in Budapest at the beginning of
July for the 'Training for Democracy'. The event was about seminars,
workshops on democracy, active citizenship and related issues and
the participants learned how to give workshops, trainings on their
on in the future mainly to highschool students. They learned how to
work together, sometimes how to stand each other, then how to help
each other, so simply, how to live together. One week passed with
hard work in the mornings and afternoons,and some fun during the
evenings and nights. Everybody went home exhausted, but full of good
memories and plans for the future. I am sure that we will hear about
these people and their worthwhilw ideas quite soon again.
As one of the members of the Budapest-team I would like to thank
all the trainers, the project team members and the participants for
being there, making this week unforgettable with their cheerful,
always supporting smiles and for making it possible for
AEGEE-Budapest to take the first big step within the network of
AEGEE.
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Experience Exchange European Event, Athina
AEGEE-Athina, partner in the project YnterACT, organised with
success the second event of the first year of the Project. The main
goal of this event was to give the opportunity to the 20
participants to experience once more and to practice in a more
advanced level, some communication  tools such as Debate, Forum
Theatre and Lateral Thinking. Additionally, there was a total report
of the whole year of the project, by exchanging experience of
how the project worked in the 3 participating locals
(Creative Communication Clubs in Munich, Bucuresti and
Athina). Fruitful meetings, creative atmosphere, long lasting
workshops, theatre playing, and of course aegee-spirit were there to
complete the annual event of AEGEE-Athina.
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Sun, beach and see in Tuscany
This event took place on the eve of the patron saint’s feast day
(June 16) and transformed the lungarni into a phantasmagoric
fairy-tale setting.The architectural details of the palaces –
windows, cornices, balconies – the parapets of the river and the
bridges were glowing in the reflected light of over 70,000
‘lumini’ (small glass lamps burning oil or wax) while
thousands of lighted candles float on the waters of the Arno. Sham
architecture (‘machines’) and a firework spectacle at the Cittadella
Vecchia made this event, which dates back to 1688, even more
fascinating.
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