About AEGEE
1991
1991
Quo Vadis Europe
prejudices • Striving for the creation of an open and tolerant society of today and tomorrow • Fostering democracy, Human Rights, tolerance, cross border cooperation, mobility, and a European dimension within Education • Representing the rights of students and young people in Europe As defined in AEGEE’s Strategic Plan for 20112014, the events and the projects currently run by the organisation focus on three areas: Youth Participation, Bridging Europe, and Inclusion of Minorities. The past year has seen the birth of projects such as Europe on Track, winning the European Charlemagne Youth Prize; and YVote 2014, an initiative aiming to make students and first time voters main actors of the 2014 European Parliament elections.
Major Achievements
1997
First Agora in the East: Budapest
First Network Commission
can easily conclude that one of its major achievements is the effective lobbying for the creation of the Erasmus programme in the 1980s. In cooperation with the European Commission, AEGEE played a major role in convincing the EU Member States that mobility programmes are worth investing in. We have continued on this path ever since, promoting programmes and advocating for them, such as Erasmus and Socrates, and the inclusion of more countries in the latter, such as Turkey. AEGEE is also known for its longest running project, the Summer University project that gathers thousands of young people each summer providing courses on a wide range of topics, from language courses to seminars about political, cultural or environmental issues. AEGEE has participatory status in the activities of the Council of Europe, consultative status at the United Nations, operational status at UNESCO, and is a full member of the European Youth Forum.
When looking at AEGEE’s history of 28 years, one
AEGEE Annual Review 2012/2013
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