Dear members and friends,

 

welcome to this edition of the newsletter.
 

This month, AEGEE has joined another board of an advocacy platform, EUCIS-LLL. You will also find news from our biggest and most ambitious recent projects, the Eastern Partnership Project. We also invite you very much to our three conferences in Brussels in June. You can find more information below.

 

Enjoy early summer!

 

Yours,
Comité Directeur

We are very proud to tell you that we, AEGEE, have won the Charlemagne Youth Prize 2013 for our project Europe on Track.  The Prize is awarded to projects undertaken by young people which foster understanding, promote the development of a shared sense of European identity, and offer practical examples of Europeans living together as one community. 

Congratulations and a huge thank you to Reka Salamon, coordinator of the project, our six ambassadors, Mathieu, Natalia, Manu, Benni, Cristina and  Héloïse, and all other people involved. Congratulations to all locals who were hosting and organising events and all of you who participated in discussions. Also thank you once again to our sponsor InterRail!

 

With this prize, we win 5 000€, which will be invested in the documentary of Europe on Track 2012/2013 to be finished this summer as well as the new edition for 2014. Stay tuned!

 

For more information about Europe on Track, visit: http://aegee.org/europeontrack/

In June, it last chance to do some advocacy in Brussels before the European Institutions close for the summer break. This is why we have planned 3 conferences to which we would like to invite you very much!

 

What: Launch of our YVote campaign 2014, presenting the project for the first time to stakeholders in Brussels

When and where:  3rd of June, 17-18h, European Parliament, Brussels

How to join: Send an email to [log in to unmask] with your details (name, surname, ID number, nationality, birthdate).

AEGEE-Europe has been elected for the Steering Committee of EUCIS-LLL (European Civil Society Platform for Lifelong Learning) for the next three years. Lucille Rieux, our Secretary General, attended the General Assembly in Vilnius, Lithuania and presented our candidature. This means that for the next 3 years AEGEE will be fully part of the advocating process in high levels of education policies and Lifelong Learning in Europe, which is one of the core interests of our organisation. These policies affect education programmes such as Erasmus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Comenius and programmes which we profit from in our daily life.

 

The European Day of Environment (EDE) is about to come and of course the Environmental Working Group (EnWG) won’t let it pass unnoticed! The six weeks that the Network will think about sustainability and will have the chance to prove that it is sustainable will start on the 22nd of April. This is the International Mother Earth Day and it reminds us of the well being of the planet and the impact we, as humans, have on it.

Read more: 
http://www.zeus.aegee.org/magazine/2013/05/06/european-day-of-environment-2013-are-you-ready-to-participate-2/

Last week, some really good news came to all the AEGEEans. It was during the COMEM (Council of Members) of the European Youth Forum (YFJ, which stands for ‘Youth Forum Jeunesse‘) in Brussels.

AEGEE-Europe had just been elected to be one of the 30 organizations inside the Advisory Council (AC) on Youth of the Council of Europe, representing the European Youth Forum Member Organizations.

Read more:
http://www.zeus.aegee.org/magazine/2013/05/02/aegee-europe-to-represent-the-yfj-in-the-advisory-council-on-youth/

After the Spring Agora Rhein Neckar , two new contacts were established: Bihać , located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Bologna, a city in central Italy. The AEGEEan interviewed both of the contacts in order to get more information about the next AEGEE antennae.

Read more:
http://www.zeus.aegee.org/magazine/2013/05/05/aegee-expands-with-two-new-contacts-in-bihac-and-bologna/

During Agora Rhein-Neckar, the Visa Freedom Working Group (VFWG) organized quite a successful workshop! The main leader and speaker of the workshop was an American citizen living in Germany and the Czech Republic, Mrs. Kimberli Jo Lewis, who has a certificate from the London Coaching Academy.

In this issue, read about the Parliament's proposed changes to the Youth Guarantee, the latest development in Switzerland on Freedom of Movement and the limited progress on Europe 2020 targets.  Read also about how cuts in healthcare budget will affect young people. 

Read more:
http://intranet.youthforum.org/newsletters/node/51589/ypw

NCG is currently seeking applications from young people aged 18-30 to present their innovative and inspirational projects linked to citizenship in the 2013 NCG Forum.

Our planet is facing a rapid depletion of natural resources, increasing environmental contamination and major changes in the earth’s atmosphere. As a frontrunner in sustainability research, Germany strongly believes in international cooperation to overcome these global challenges. Especially the creativity and innovativeness of young scientists is called for.

This is why the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is now holding the 5th round of its prestigious “Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development”. The competition, under the patronage of Minister Professor Johanna Wanka, annually awards the 25 most outstanding minds worldwide. Hailing from various research disciplines, the winners are honoured for their original solutions for a more sustainable future.

Selected by a high-ranking jury of German experts, the “Green Talents” will be invited to a two-week science forum, touring Germany in the fall of 2013.