After a nice and hopefully well deserved christmas/new year's break the Comite Directeur is back in office.
Please give us a couple of days to get back to all the e-mails sent over this holiday period.
Or just spam us again, we don't mind :)
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Designers Meeting Gdansk
AEGEE's Brand is oldfashioned, unattractive and especially inconsistent.
From this viewpoint the initiative to renew AEGEE's Brand was started about half a year ago. And now after a weekend of hard work in Gdansk a clear evaluation of the current situation was finalised, brand values were written down, and a strategy for implementation set up. Mateusz (AEGEE Katowice) and I (Robin) were also so lucky to admire the first drafts of the new AEGEE logo by AEGEE's design guru Bartek. We talked colours, fonts, shapes, fashion, language, the market and brand guidelines. Be ready to be greatly surprised with massive freshness, youthfulness as well as sophistication this EBM!
In the evenings there was time for socialising with AEGEE Gdansk and sightseeing. I hereby declare Gdansk as my favorite Polish city, despite the freezing cold :-)
Thank you Bartek, Mateusz, Asia and AEGEE Gdansk for a great weekend!
From this viewpoint the initiative to renew AEGEE's Brand was started about half a year ago. And now after a weekend of hard work in Gdansk a clear evaluation of the current situation was finalised, brand values were written down, and a strategy for implementation set up. Mateusz (AEGEE Katowice) and I (Robin) were also so lucky to admire the first drafts of the new AEGEE logo by AEGEE's design guru Bartek. We talked colours, fonts, shapes, fashion, language, the market and brand guidelines. Be ready to be greatly surprised with massive freshness, youthfulness as well as sophistication this EBM!
In the evenings there was time for socialising with AEGEE Gdansk and sightseeing. I hereby declare Gdansk as my favorite Polish city, despite the freezing cold :-)
Thank you Bartek, Mateusz, Asia and AEGEE Gdansk for a great weekend!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
CD compilation
Which are the tunes that can be heard walking through the corridors of the headoffice?
Eclectic Anita goes from techno-house to pure rock. She transformed Nickelbeck's song 'Rockstar' into the CD song, every now and then sang on the guitar with Tena and once performed in an empty auditorium in Toulouse.
Dragan a.k.a. the Dancefloor King (who, curiosity, knows an incredible amount of songs' lyrics by heart) gives his best with 'I kissed the girl' by Kate Perry.
Evren is our skilled salsa dancer! `La vida es un carnaval` from Celia Cruz, for him and for all latino lovers.
Ivonne bothers us all the time with the French song 'Ma jeunesse fout l'camp' and with much worse disco music. Unfortunately the house lacks a piano, which she can practice in very rare occasions and only at the neighbour's.
Womanizer depicts Percin's lifestyle, but the already somewhat famous dance was created by our EVS Ilona. Curious to see it? The EBM is your chance.
'Shoo Shoo song' by Cher for Schuschi, i.e. Robin.
To conclude, Tena is the boring one, continuosly complaining about loud-bad-music and turning off the radio. In her attempt to go beyond 70ies, she is not getting her music much happier than John Mayer.
Discover Nickelback!
Eclectic Anita goes from techno-house to pure rock. She transformed Nickelbeck's song 'Rockstar' into the CD song, every now and then sang on the guitar with Tena and once performed in an empty auditorium in Toulouse.
Dragan a.k.a. the Dancefloor King (who, curiosity, knows an incredible amount of songs' lyrics by heart) gives his best with 'I kissed the girl' by Kate Perry.
Evren is our skilled salsa dancer! `La vida es un carnaval` from Celia Cruz, for him and for all latino lovers.
Ivonne bothers us all the time with the French song 'Ma jeunesse fout l'camp' and with much worse disco music. Unfortunately the house lacks a piano, which she can practice in very rare occasions and only at the neighbour's.
Womanizer depicts Percin's lifestyle, but the already somewhat famous dance was created by our EVS Ilona. Curious to see it? The EBM is your chance.
'Shoo Shoo song' by Cher for Schuschi, i.e. Robin.
To conclude, Tena is the boring one, continuosly complaining about loud-bad-music and turning off the radio. In her attempt to go beyond 70ies, she is not getting her music much happier than John Mayer.
Discover Nickelback!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
New year with AEGEE: the flyer.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
CoE Conference of Ministers responsible for Youth in Kiev
In October, right after the Agora, Bartek Kotowicz from AEGEE-Gdansk and me represented AEGEE in the CoE conference in Kiev, where the Ministers responsible for Youth of the European governments gathered and decided upon the Agenda 2020 document. The conference was preceeded by a Youth Event organised by the YFJ, whose results are now ready and available online.
Shaping mobility policy and networking at the European Parliament
From rags to riches in 40 minutes? If you’re a CD member, it just happens.
One moment you are struggling with the shower cabin of a kranky house in Schaarbeeck and half an hour later you find yourself in the middle of one of the finest rooms of the European Parliament face-to-face with MEPs and high rank politicians.
Last Thursday Percin and me were invited to take part in a high profile conference organized by the YFJ and PES about the visa regime: The EU visa policy – a perspective from Western Balkans and ENP countries. The focus was on the visa regime present in the Western Balkans and on the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy agreement.
In spite of the general skepticism about the efficiency of Visa Facilitation Agreements, our president Dragan, back from Serbia with a freshly obtained visa, is convinced they work - and he is the living example!
The ‘serious’ report of the conference can be found here.
Apart from E.U. policy, it was also the perfect networking opportunity: in one afternoon we met - had lunch - a glass of wine with several MEPs, invited them and their assistents at CD’s Christmas conference in Atomium and at Y Vote events, arranged a probable new AEGEE Contact in Mostar (Bosnia) and started the agreements for a partnership with FLARE, apart from, of course, strenghtening the ties with the YFJ Bureau & Secretariat members.
No doubt: spending less time in front of the computer and getting out of the house every now and then really pays off.
One moment you are struggling with the shower cabin of a kranky house in Schaarbeeck and half an hour later you find yourself in the middle of one of the finest rooms of the European Parliament face-to-face with MEPs and high rank politicians.
Last Thursday Percin and me were invited to take part in a high profile conference organized by the YFJ and PES about the visa regime: The EU visa policy – a perspective from Western Balkans and ENP countries. The focus was on the visa regime present in the Western Balkans and on the countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy agreement.
In spite of the general skepticism about the efficiency of Visa Facilitation Agreements, our president Dragan, back from Serbia with a freshly obtained visa, is convinced they work - and he is the living example!
The ‘serious’ report of the conference can be found here.
Apart from E.U. policy, it was also the perfect networking opportunity: in one afternoon we met - had lunch - a glass of wine with several MEPs, invited them and their assistents at CD’s Christmas conference in Atomium and at Y Vote events, arranged a probable new AEGEE Contact in Mostar (Bosnia) and started the agreements for a partnership with FLARE, apart from, of course, strenghtening the ties with the YFJ Bureau & Secretariat members.
No doubt: spending less time in front of the computer and getting out of the house every now and then really pays off.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Yes we can!
November/December is all about the fame and money while these Brussels based youngsters work on the general subvention, go to cool conferences and receptions to network with celebrities and make an attempt to close some deals with the private sector. It already came up on AEGEE-L so just to assure you: things are happening.
This week AEGEE-Europe got a brand new Golden Partner: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. The partnership will assure a nice spotlight for the Graduate School in 2009, and I myself have already fallen for their charm and started checking out their Master programmes as yes, there is a life after the CD.
We launched our brand new Career Platform to which 250 members already signed up and nobody less than Google will be one of the first to try it out from 1 January on. So don't miss it, you could be the next Larry Page or Sergey Brin.
Also TOMER is in line for partnering up with AEGEE. As we all love multilingualism. Some other linguistic institutions are still pending, Ilona is chasing them through e-mails and phonecalls. Teamwork is everything.
Which was also proven some days ago when Percin and I went to the Turkish Chamber of Commerce to charm them with the Sustaining our Future project which proved once again to be an excellent private funding magnet. A 3-zero figure sponsorship of the Think Tank made me and Percin jump and scream once we stepped outside back on the street, after a meeting that in advance I feared the most but then turned out to be the easiest fundraising meeting I have had so far.
Life is stressful yet exciting at Rue Nestor de Tiere 15. Emotions go wild when money is involved, but there is nothing better than the adrenaline after a deal gone good or a grant granted.
This week AEGEE-Europe got a brand new Golden Partner: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. The partnership will assure a nice spotlight for the Graduate School in 2009, and I myself have already fallen for their charm and started checking out their Master programmes as yes, there is a life after the CD.
We launched our brand new Career Platform to which 250 members already signed up and nobody less than Google will be one of the first to try it out from 1 January on. So don't miss it, you could be the next Larry Page or Sergey Brin.
Also TOMER is in line for partnering up with AEGEE. As we all love multilingualism. Some other linguistic institutions are still pending, Ilona is chasing them through e-mails and phonecalls. Teamwork is everything.
Which was also proven some days ago when Percin and I went to the Turkish Chamber of Commerce to charm them with the Sustaining our Future project which proved once again to be an excellent private funding magnet. A 3-zero figure sponsorship of the Think Tank made me and Percin jump and scream once we stepped outside back on the street, after a meeting that in advance I feared the most but then turned out to be the easiest fundraising meeting I have had so far.
Life is stressful yet exciting at Rue Nestor de Tiere 15. Emotions go wild when money is involved, but there is nothing better than the adrenaline after a deal gone good or a grant granted.
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