ASSOCIATION DES ETATS GÉNÉRAUX
DES ETUDIANTS DE L’EUROPE EUROPEAN STUDENTS’ FORUM is a student organisation that promotes co-operation and integration amongst young people in Europe. Through active and critical confrontation with Europe AEGEE wants to help develop an open and tolerant society. As a non-governmental, politically independent and non-profit organisation AEGEE is open to students in Europe from all faculties and disciplines. , which was founded in 1985 in Paris, puts the idea of a unified Europe into practice. A widely spread student network of 15.000 members in 235 local branches provides the ideal platform where young people can work together, free from any national way of thinking. AEGEE brings together youth workers and young volunteers from 40 European countries with activities such as conferences, seminars, exchanges, training courses, Summer Universities, case study trips and Working Group meetings. By encouraging travel and mobility, stimulating discussion and organising common projects AEGEE attempts to overcome national, cultural and ethnic divisions and to create a vision of young people’s Europe. ’s main fields of action are Peace & Stability, Active Citizenship, Cultural Exchange and Higher Education.
has also a number of illustrious personalities amongst its patrons: Mikhael Gorbatchev - the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Václav Havel - former President of the Czech Republic; Eric Froment - President of the European University Association, Wolfgang Thierse - President of the Bundestag, Bronislaw Geremek former Chairman of OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radmila Sekerinska - the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, Romano Prodi - former President of the European Commission. celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2005, with all its achievements in the past 20 years in Europe. Being the first student organisation to open up to Eastern Europe with the fall of Iron Curtain, playing a pioneer role in the adoption of Erasmus Mobility Scheme AEGEE changed lives of many people in Europe. Next 20 years AEGEE will keep on playing its essential role, focus on more democracy in Europe, full mobility for students, as well as the integration process of accession and neigbouring countries into Europe.
www.aegee.org, headoffice@aegee.org
does not consider any national level in its organisation and structure, and relies solely on the local branches and a European level that consists of Working Groups, Commissions and the European Board of Directors. AEGEE has participatory status in the activities of the Council of Europe, consultative status at the United Nations, operational status at UNESCO and is at the same time a member of the European Youth Forum and the European Movement International.
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Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe