AEGEE-Kyiv presented "Pay it forward!"

Pay It Forward event , that was held in Kyiv from 26 June till 2nd July, was dedicated to volunteering and the great movie that has the same name.
Those who know it will definitely agree with me, those who don't - I strongly recommend to watch. The idea of the film is that if one helps you, you help three in return.
This way you make whole world a bit better, brighter and happier. That's what we tried to do during the event. With a big group of AEGEE people we visited orphan house, brought some presents like fruits, pencils and papers, shampoos and toothpastes to children. And of course we made some entertaining program for them including show of a popular Kyiv singer and some handicrafts workshops. Children enjoyed it a lot, actually we also did.
Accept the idea of volunteering of course we had excursions all around Kyiv, boat trip along the Dniper river, active day on the beach, some games in the entertainment center and, of course, parties every night in the best Kyiv clubs! Participants were great from all over Europe and more: Paris, Barcelona, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and even from Australia.
Some participants wanted to stay in Kyiv so much, that they even missed there planes or were trying hard to be late on it. But we managed to send them home - happy and excited!

“SOME CALL IT EUROPE,WE CALL IT HOME!” contest++OPEN CALL++

Dear Network!

AEGEE25 Team is glad to announce the first edition of the contest “SOME CALL IT EUROPE,WE CALL IT HOME!”

After enjoying our promo video here

, ask yourselves what AEGEE means to me?

Choose the section- snapshots or video- you prefer the most, unleash your creativity, get inspiration from your AEGEE experience and from your friends from all around Europe ! :)

If intercultural learning and understanding is part of the answer.. If you are going to enjoy a Summer University , or an exchange or an international event…

well bring your camera with you…make the best video ever, or the best photo ever and send it to aegee25.celebration@gmail.com

To read the rules of the contest click here: http://intranet.myaegee.net/group_file/view/1558/1948

Looking forward to receiving your inspired works ;)

AEGEE25 Core Team

Alla, Coral, Flo, Irina, Roxana, Sveta, Verena

Back to USSR:before&after AEGEE in Sankt-Peterburg

A few months ago nobody could imagine that 12 unbelievably wonderful participants from Spain, Greece, Finland, Belgium and Serbia would gather in Saint-Petersburg to celebrate AEGEE’s anniversary together! We, the organizers, showed them different sides of cultures in Russia, the cultures that came one after another, enriched our history and changed our identity: culture of the tsars’ time, soviet times and modernity (when AEGEE appeared). We strolled through the picturesque parks of Peterhof, took an imaginary trip on the Russian cruiser “Aurora”, explored the Soviet architecture, dived into the white nights, walked many kilometers to the unknown, became young pioneers for a moment and prepared delicious Russian meals… Of course we could never forget that it was AEGEE that gave us such an incredible opportunity to meet each other. We had a workshop “How AEGEE changed me”, where we played a quiz about AEGEE and discussed what are the new things it brings to our life every day. Another workshop was devoted to the life of Soviet people and the way it differed from today’s life. On the last day of event we blew 25 candles in a huge cake in honor of AEGEE =)
-Tamara Petrova, "Back to USSR:before&after AEGEE" coordinator-

"Many thanks for introducing us to this great city and for all the lovely hot summer days we spent together! All has been excellent and the long walks were really worth it!"
(Alex, Greece)

"I had a great time in this wonderful city. You made my time in the city really beautiful. Now I want to come back to visit you and discover the rest of Russia."
(Francois, Belgium)

"Thanks for everything, for being so sweet to us, for showing us this wonderful country and even for training us and our legs! Besos!"
(Carlos, Spain)

UOZZAP in JULY?

In the latest issue of AEGEE Monthly Events Megazine....

Hello!
Enjoy reading the latest issue of AEGEE Monthly Events Megazine here !!!
In this issue two of the AEGEE25 events: I WAS THERE and THE GOLDEN TWENTIES!!!

see you in another amazing AEGEE25 event!!!

UOZZAP in JUNE?

THE GOLDEN TWENTIES in Passau

AEGEE-Passau 20th birthday celebration was a great way how to spend the weekend, even if it reminded a bit of ex Regional Meetings with so many Germans around :) Nevertheless, they were nice enough to speak in English most of the time and hold all the workshops and speeches in English so also few amount of foreigners would understand it.
One of the biggest highlights of the event was not only Gala Ball, which is a separate story, but workshop by Marco Kalbusch, the founder of AEGEE-Passau who is currently working for United Nations in South Africa. His workshop made me remember all the reason why we are in AEGEE and why we are so passionate about it. There are so many things we are benefiting from, just we do not realize them anymore and they seem so natural for us - like speaking with people from other countries on daily basis, managing large-scale projects (yes, even more than one at the same time) and hopping from one city to other all over Europe. If all AEGEE workshops would be like the one Marco did, I have no doubts that AEGEE would double its amount of members and increase the amount of those members who are actively contributing to the association, not just benefiting from it!

-Anita Kalmane,AEGEE-Europe Vice-President&Network Director

"We were very happy with our event. After all, it was the first European event for quite some time in Passau (since the YNY Training course in 2008, actually, I think) and a big challenge for the organizing team, since it was their first big event to organize.
Everything went great and we all spent a great weekend together. We especially once again came to value the cosyness of Passau, because since it is so small, the participants could walk everywhere, from the local hosts' places (because everybody was hosted privately) to the place where we workshops took place to the Redoute, the local theater, were we had our Gala evening.
We were very happy that Anita and Manos from the CD were there and very moved by Manos's speech during the Gala evening. We also had a guest that especially came from Africa, Marco Kalbusch, the founder of our antenna, who lead a very much appreciated workshop about how you can benefit from your AEGEE work in your future life. During the afternoon, participants also especially liked the dance-workshop, where they could prepare for the evening, and the Voodoo-workshop lead by Frida, about how AEGEE has changed us.
The best part of the weekend of course was the Gala evening. The president of our university visited, we had some speeches, we appointed our new honorary members Stefan Hauk and Markus Schönherr, we had some great show acts by AEGEE-München, our "big brother", great food, and of course, partyyy! It was a perfect evening with a wonderful atmosphere.
The next day they Bavarian sausage breakfast was the end of a awesome weekend.
I think the great thing about this event was that it brought together former AEGEE members, people from AEGEE Passau and people from all over Europe to celebrate together and share something. We got a lot of nice comments about our event and we can say that we have been really proud that we were able to host it."

-Kathrin Renner, AEGEE Passau e.V.Coordinator The Golden Twenties-

"Oh my God, what a fantastic night!! So many charming, beautiful and absolutely stunning girls - and a perfectly organized evening. Chapeau!" (Georg Rehberger - AEGEE München)

"Thanks a lot to AEGEE Passau for your great Gala event! It was so so great!!!!" (Stefanie Kraut - AEGEE Heidelberg)

"Dear freinds of AEGEE Passau, it really was a great anniversary weekend. Whoever will organize the 25-years-anniversairy will have a really hard time to live up to this. We had a lot of fun! Thank you and see you in 5 years!" (Marco Kalbusch, Ex-AEGEE Passau)