Basic

Title

Ms.

Family name

Ferencsik

Given name(s)

Ildikó

Organisation

AEGEE Europe

Acronym

AEGEE

Mailing address

Rue Nestor de Tière 15

City

Brussels

Country

Belgium

Office phone

+32 2 245 23 00

Fax number

+32 2 245 62 60

Website

http://www.aegee.org

Organisation

Tags

Students, education, IYNGO

Working languages

English and French

Brief history

AEGEE was founded in Paris in 1985 under the name EGEE (Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe). The name relates to the Aegean Sea where democracy was created 2,000 years ago. It is pronounced as if it were a French word "aégée". The English name is the European Students' Forum.

EGEE wanted to be a platform for young Europeans to discuss the future of Europe and to present their ideas to the officials of the EU institutions and national governments. At the time, EGEE only focused on the EU Member States. However, in 1991 AEGEE began to develop its network in the EFTA countries and in Central and Eastern Europe .

Since its creation, more than 100,000 young Europeans have become members of the AEGEE network, and AEGEE has managed many successful European projects, e.g.: Y Vote 2009, YOUrope needs YOU (best European Charlemagne Youth Prize project in 2009,Euromanagers (today run by EMDS), Peace Academy, Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue and the most famous: Summer Universities -which are successfully run for over 18 years and every year involve around 3000 young people.

Objectives

AEGEE is one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary student associations and it’s main aim is to promote European Integration and development of tolerant civil society.

AEGEE works to foster democracy, human rights, tolerance, cross-boarder co-operation, mobility and European dimension in education.

AEGEE is a voluntary, non-profit organisation that operates without any link to a political party. It is represented in 240 university cities, in 42 countries across Europe and has about 15,000 members.

Structure

AEGEE does not make use of national structures. Instead, AEGEE works in parallel on the local and European level. AEGEE provides opportunity for individual members from local level to get directly involved in European Level activities and projects.

European level:

AGORA (General Assembly gathering 800-1000 participants)-biannual
European Board’s meeting - EBM (statutory) annual
Comité Directeur
European board of directors, working at the Head Office in Brussels
Liaison Officers to work with international institutions and organisations
Commissions (juridical, audit, members, network)
Working groups (thematic: e.g.International Politics WG, supporting:e.g. Public Relations WG and others : e.g. Pool of Trainers- AEGEE Academy).

Local level:
local groups, in academic cities, so-called antennae, where people directly implement AEGEE aims in a way that serves best the needs of their local community.

Publications

Key to Europe, (Yearbook)
News Bulletin (internal, biannual)
Summer University Booklet (annual offer of the summer courses)
AEGEE-Gazette (quarterly external publication)
One Europe Magazine (biannual youth commentary magazine)
Address Book (biannual internal)

Membership

Membership type

Full member

Organisation type

INGYO

History

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