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AEGEE Monthly Review, May 2007 |
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Troy Fest IV
 40 participants from all over
Europe met at the 4th Troy Youth Fest in Canakkale. As a post event
of ES1 Canakkale, Troy Fest took part between the dates 1-3 April
2007. At this traditional event, participants had a chance to taste
Turkish culture from every perspective (dance, cuisine, music,
history, traditions) with workshops and tours. With great
sightseeing tours to world wide famous historical places such as
Troy Ancient City, original Wooden Trojan Horse, Museums,
participants had 3 amazing days in city Canakkale. As AEGEE-
Canakkale advertised even on the application page of the event,
participants “went with the rhythm, and enjoyed Turkey” with crazy
parties and sleepless nights. Not to mention that in the last 3
years, 300 AEGEE members joined TroyFest events and may be it will
be your turn to be the part of this great event next time!
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A COLOURFUL WORLD in the land
of Wine
The event was opened with the opening speeches by the local
authorities and president of AEGEE-Tekirdag, afterwards a short
Turkish Language course and city tour followed it in the
afternoon.
The city museums were visited after the conference on
Tekirdag  and Thrace history. A conference
on Viticulture was held, and the historical sites of the city were
visited. To taste the delicious vine from the barrels in the
factories, three vine factories were visited and participants had a
chance to ask their questions to producers. Every night, fun was
part of the program, so hot parties made participants very tired but
happy. Participants were from Latvia, Hungary, Italy, Ukraine and
Bask part of Spain. At the end of the event, everybody was happy to
know each other and at least they broke some of the prejudices about
each other.
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Network Meeting - Porto
This  important event organized by
AEGEE-Porto and Network Commission took place in lovely city Porto
between the dates 13-15 April 2007. The event was gathered nearly 40
participants from the region and provided good atmosphere to discuss
the regional issues, strategies and of course the upcoming events.
In contrast to this serious atmosphere, participants visited the
city and also enjoyed wild parties during 3 days.
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BALTIC EXPRESS Training
Course
The Baltic Express Training Course, an event which aimed to train
the new  members and experienced members
of all the Baltic local, and to give them the motivation and
enthusiasm to become more active and improve their activities,
reached its target! Between the dates 20-22 April 2007, participants
especially from Baltic locals attended the lectures which give a
theoretical background, and a case study afterwards, which provided
them with the necessary practical experiences and skills. For sure
fun, parties and sauna were not underestimated by the
organizers.
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BT Okulu 007
- IT School for TSL
AEGEE-Eskisehir successfully organized the traditional event
so-called “IT  School for Turkish speaking
locals”. The event took place in Eskisehir between the dates 21-23
April 2007. During 3 days 30 participants from different locals
of Turkey had a chance to learn about relatively hard subjects for
non-IT people such as Basic Web Design, HTML coding, Introduction to
Photoshop and Dreamweaver. For sure, crazy parties at one of the
biggest night club in Turkey were more colorful part of the
program.
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Pisa - Valletta - One Way
From 24th to 26th of April 56 members of different AEGEE locals
 visited Pisa in order take part
in Agora pre-event "Pisa-Valletta ONE-WAY". We wanted to give all of
them opportunity to fun for 3 days visiting Piazza dei Miracoli,
Lucca and ancient Pisa.
What did we do?
- we showed our guests
Old City
- we organized very nice parties
- we let them taste
typical Italian food
- we threatened them with the story about
fantastic Leaning Tower and Miracle Square;
- we woke them up
early and sent them to bed really late.
We told them a lot of
stories about Pisa and Italian culture
And those 3 days were
definitely interesting!
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AGORA Valletta - On the road
again!
On the 26-29th of April 2007 the European Students’ Forum AEGEE
held its  biannual General Assembly (Agora)
in Valletta, Malta. Almost 1000 delegates and envoys from all over
Europe gathered together in order to take important decisions
regarding the future of our Association. Delegates also elected
their European representatives: members of commissions, working
group boards and the European Board of Directors (Comite Directeur),
consisting of eight members:
Mr Theijs van Welij - President
Mr Gergo Szigeti - Secretary
General
Mr Michele Turati - Financial Director
Ms Laura
Costica - Vice President / Director for External Relations
Ms
Laure Onidi - Vice President / Projects Director
Ms Anna Gabriel
- Human Resources Director
Mr Arif Cem Gündoğan - Public
Relations Director
Ms Tinatin Tsertsvadze - Director for European
Institutions
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Spring AGORA 2007 - Official
Post Event
After such a hard-working and result-oriented AGORA,
AEGEE-Valletta organized a great post event called "from 10 to
Infinity". Participants learned about the achievements of
AEGEE-Valletta in Malta in the frame work of 10 years of their history
and also had a chance to learn about Maltese culture. The Post-Event
made participants discover the golden Neolithic period when visiting
the temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra, walked them through Valletta
and enable you to admire its baroque buildings and churches built by
the Knights of St. John, gave them the time to get lost in the
winding medieval roads of Mdina and allowed them to enjoy the rural
beauty of Gozo. For sure participants had the opportunity to
experience what the bustling nightlife in Malta is all about.
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Three Times Charm
2007 - Europe for Dummies
Three Times The Charm - Congress celebrating the 50 years Treaty
of Rome, 15 years Treaty of Maastricht, 5 years the Euro.
For four days straight, the participants were  immersed in the European
water. Speakers like Dutch MEP Sophie In 't Veld and former European
Commissioner Karel van Miert amplified on the wide range of aspects
dealt with in the EU and the importance of the Treaties. Other
speakers entertained the audience about grouchy and hungry ministers
during the preparations of the Maastricht treaties, elevator. After
the lecture, hard work was delivered in the workshops which resulted
in deep discussions and heated panel debates. In the end, the
dummies were transformed into experts.
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Beer Congress
The Beer Congress took place at 1st - 4th May 07 in Plzeň. It was
really great time for participants where they had occasions to know
a lot of new  experiences, information about
history and manufacture of Pilsner Urquell and Chodovar Brewery.
They spent wonderful time in unique beer spa, unique beer pub, and
unique Czech restaurants and finally also they could meet Major of
Plzeň.
Participants were exhausted of typical Czech meals and taste
Czech beer. Participants were mainly from Italy, Serbia, Germany,
Spain, Ukraine and Netherlands.
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Summer Universities - An amazing
chance!
87 fantastic events waiting only for YOU!
The Summer University application is still open; all the member
of AEGEE can apply until 18th of May via the SU web page
www.aegee.org/su. This is the most famous and successful project in
AEGEE, which started in 1988, takes place each year and involves
more than 150 cities and 6000 students in 30 different European
countries. This project has been developed by AEGEE-Europe as the
main tool to promote European Integration among young citizens.
A Summer University is usually a two-week event organized by an
AEGEE local when about 20 to 60 students come together from all over
Europe. One of the project’s keys to success is its effort to
involve as many people as possible in a multi-cultural environment.
For approximately 120 euros, a student can attend a 14 days Summer
University event in a foreign country.
For more info, please visit: www.aegee.org/su
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