The Advisory Council consists of 30 representatives from youth NGOs and networks which give input for all the youth sector activities of the Council of Europe. It co- manages and co-decides on policies, programme priorities, and budget allocation. Until the end of 2017 AEGEE-Europe was represented by Marko Grdošić as the Chair of the AC.
IFISO is a platform of 28 international student organisations, covering around 22 million students around the globe. It aims to support and improve international student organisations through networking, cooperation, and sharing knowledge and best practices. It can be compared to an AEGEE’s network meeting, but between international organisations instead of AEGEE locals. There are two meetings per year. Last autumn it took place in Belgrade and was hosted by the International Forestry Students’ Association. The big topics of discussions were mainly how to ensure quality in events, how to manage human resources, and an analysis of the differences of the [...]
Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe is a platform which provides space for civil society in the Council of Europe – one of the oldest government organisation on our continent. Within the Conference, we have 3 Thematic Committees: Education and Culture Committee, Human Rights Committee and Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Committee. Their purpose is to facilitate co-ordination between the INGOs in specific interest areas, serve as common interlocutors for all the Council of Europe bodies, and ensure more effective participation in the activities of these bodies. Beside that Conference organises country visits’ in the member states, [...]
European Citizen Action Service is an international umbrella organisation providing services to a network of 150 civil society organisations and citizens on EU citizens’ rights enforcement and civic participation in the EU decision-making process.
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum aims to strengthen civil society’s role in the European Neighbourhood Policy.
Results of the conference ‘Borderless Europe: Blessing or Burden?’ that took place in Cluj-Napoca, on 6th to 9th May, organised by Your Vision for EUrope Project, in cooperation with AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca and the Association des Amis de Franck Biancheri. Download
The Key to Europe is AEGEE’s yearbook (annual report). It is issued once per year and contains articles about the activities of the previous year together with an outlook on the following year. Read now! Check the archives
Do you think youth organisations like AEGEE represent all young people? Do you think all young people have a chance to participate in youth organisations? It is true that youth organisations are more accessible to certain groups of young people. But they are also working hard on new ways to engage all young people in their activities! JEF Europe, AEGEE-Europe and Erasmus Student Network has come together in late 2016 to discuss the issue of diversity and how to include young people from various backgrounds in their activities. Being the biggest youth organisations on the field representing hundreds of thousands [...]
AEGEE-Europe launches a new online and offline campaign: YEP. YEP stands for Why European Parliament and aims at informing young people about the European Parliament as an institution, the democratic concept for which it stands, its functioning and competences. Besides, it aims at exposing its relevance in the daily life of young people, encouraging them to take an active role in it. The focusses of the project are, first of all, to train a pool of young multipliers on the above-mentioned objectives. These will afterwards form an informal network that will carry out numerous local and regional actions oriented at [...]
On 15 February and 22 February, Bulgaria and Slovakia opposed the ratification of the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. While the European Union signed The Istanbul Convention on 13 June 2017, a number of EU countries have yet to ratify it. In the last few weeks, Bulgarian PM Boyko Borissov withdrew from parliament a motion to ratify the Istanbul Convention and Slovak PM Robert Fico said he refused to ratify the treaty. As the world’s first binding instrument to prevent and combat violence against women, from marital rape to female genital mutilation, the [...]
