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Andrei Popescu
Imagine a long seminar. After hours of tiring lectures and discussions, a new lecturer enters the room. With a winning smile, he looks at you and starts his presentation. It’s catchy, full of practical examples, interactive, gripping – it makes you laugh, think, smile. That’s the style of Andrei Popescu. The Romanian with the unbeatable charisma was officer of the project “Socrates on the Move” and also Speaker of the Network Commission and the Education Working Group. He also organised one of the most spectacular statutory meetings ever: the Agora in Constanta in May 2003. “The funny thing is that I never officially joined AEGEE, but another organisation that later merged with AEGEE,” says Andrei Popescu. In October 1996, Andrei took part in a seminar on Nationalism in Presov, Slovakia, but in the name of this other association. When Andrei became part of the very young AEGEE-Bucuresti, he took the chance to transform it into one of the most professional antennae in the entire network: an AEGEE branch with 200 members, organising several international events every year. “My reason for this strong involvement was definitely the fact that I realised that my first impression was so wrong,” he says. “Secondly, I was there from the very beginning of AEGEE-Bucuresti, and I felt a
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