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AEGEE Monthly Review, May 2007
In this issue:
a.. Troy Fest IV
b.. A COLOURFUL WORLD in the land of Wine
c.. Network Meeting - Porto
d.. BALTIC EXPRESS Training Course
e.. BT Okulu 007-IT School for TSL
f.. Pisa - Valletta - One Way
g.. AGORA Valletta-On the Road Again!
h.. Spring AGORA 2007 - Official Post Event
i.. Three Times Charm 2007 - Europe for Dummies
j.. Beer Congress
k.. Summer Universities - An Amazing Chance!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 Gündogan - Public Relations Director
Ms Tinatin Tsertsvadze - Director for European Institutions
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 framework 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.
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.
Beer Congress
The Beer Congress took place at 1st - 4th May 07 in Plzen. 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 Plzen.
Participants were exhausted of typical Czech meals and taste Czech beer. Participants were mainly from Italy, Serbia, Germany, Spain, Ukraine and Netherlands.
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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Newsletter compiled by Arif Cem Gündogan - cem.gundogan @aegee.org & Orsolya Balogh
May 15 , 2007
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