What AEGEE25 is?

April 16th of 1985 was the day AEGEE held its first conference in Paris with topics related to the paralysation of the European integration process. Starting with just six locals in Western Europe, AEGEE became a platform for students from Europe to discuss the future of Europe. A lot has happened since 1985: with the fall of the Iron Curtain, AEGEE was able to embrace Eastern Europe and it was just a matter of time before the first city in Eastern Europe would join AEGEE. Even today, locals in Central and Eastern Europe prove to be valuable for the European society. AEGEE continues to move beyond the accepted European borders and found locals in Russia, Turkey and a few years ago, Georgia and Azerbaijan also joined AEGEE.

25 years later AEGEE has 230 locals, scattered all over Europe with more than 15.000 members, ten working groups and several projects and together we strive to reach the aims as established during the first years of AEGEE existence: the promotion of a unified Europe without prejudices, creating an open and tolerant society of today and tomorrow and fostering democracy, human rights, tolerance, cross-boarder co-operation, mobility and European dimension in education.

AEGEE25 has been establish not only to celebrate 25 years of existence of AEGEE but also to show Europe that we are a multicultural organisation with locals in every country in the European Union and even outside it. We want to highlight AEGEE' s accomplishments in the fields of cultural exchange, active citizenship, higher education, peace & stability. The aim of this project is to look at the past, present and future of AEGEE: what has AEGEE done for its members and the European society? How are our projects relating to the European society? What can we develop AEGEE so that the members can contribute more to the European society?

All projects and activities are based on voluntarily work and commitment of its members, and as 2011 will be also European Year of Volunteering, we would like to emphasise the need of volunteer work to create a better European society. The year 2010 will therefore be full of activities which will contribute to achieve the aims of this project: conferences and more activities, contests, summer events, anniversary celebrations, workshops. The events will take place in different edges of our Network, and this will make 2010 a year AEGEE will not forget.

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Participate in any of our 2010 events and be part of the celebration!!

It might be difficult to avoid AEGEE this year, so... STAY TUNED!