Where does Europe end

Here you will see all the news about the next year term project. All the updates, next term activities and wil be written in here.

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Brussels meeting 13th-15th March 2009.

Taking place in the CD house (Comité Directeur), those 3 days were the final complement of the team building stage, already started via online platforms and partially in AEGEE EBM (European Boards’ Meeting) Torino in February 2009. It was the first time when all the team members were together. Lots of conversations, questions, smiles and good moments were shared during this meeting, which increases motivation and team-working. But appart from good time, some points had to be reached, and the team did achieve them as it may be read in the lines below.

Aims of the project.

After several considerations, the team achieved a common frame where to work on, and the main aims of the project might be expressed in the following way:

1. Examine the physical and mental borders of Europe in people’s perception

2. Confront society with the variety and complexity inherent to the concept of Europe

3. Challenge common misperceptions about Europe

4. Create a European platform for mutual understanding and tolerance

Task division.

According with motivation, personal skill and personal interests, the tasks were divided by a common and democratic decision. As the reader may notice, the names of the core team and their respective tasks are:

Dora Monogyiou – Project Manager

Casper Wolf – Treasurer

Thomas Leszke – Fundraising

Fernando Martín – Public Relations

Mario Varrenti – Communications

Orsi Cziráki – Events Responsible

Percin Imrek – Content Responsible

All of them, from absolutely different countries from eastern to western Europe.

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Next term

Regarding to next term plans the core team has planned to submit a new application for the Youth in Action programme by the first of June, including the three events that after the kick-off conference in Koszeg, Hungary, on the 9th of September 2009. AEGEE Pecs will be the host antenna.

Since the project wants to cover most of the territory of Europe with conferences and case study trips, the team has studied where and when to locate the them, taking into account the geographically position, the possible points of view of the people and the impact that the project might cause in those countries, among other ones. It has to be said that the presidency of the Council of Europe was also taken into consideration for locating the events in the most interesting dates.

Next events will probably be in December to February in Scandinavia, the Caucasus and Spain. Mario, who already started his duties during the meeting, and he contacted with AEGEE-Lund (Sweden), who are getting ready for being one of the first steps of Where does Europe end project.

Some people already showed the interest of hosting the project in their countries as Baki in Azerbaijan, who are really willing to participate.

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Important links

Brussels meeting video:

WDEE Brussels meeting in March#

Project outline:

Thanks to Thomas, taking care also of his duties, the project outline is a reality. Through the link below you may be able to download and read it.

WDEE Project outline

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Newsletter #2:

WDEE 2nd newsletter#

Kick-off conference in Köszeg, Hungary. 9th September 2009.

Köszeg #

Facebook group:

WDEE Facebook group#

Twitter updates:

AEGEE_WDEE

Our colaborators:

AEGEE-Lund, Sweden.#

AEGEE Pécs, Hungary.#

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Thanks to all the ones who are supporting our project. If you have any question, suggestion or you just like the project and want to cooperate, don’t hesitate in contacting us. Looking forward to hearing from you.

On behalf of the team, once again, welcome to the blog of Where does Europe end project.