YOUTHreach
AEGEE is excited to join the YOUTHreach project coordinated by Maastricht University in partnership with 14 leading research institutions (including the London School of Economics, University of Birmingham, University of Barcelona). YOUTHreach’s goal is to help the young people across Europe during a time when mental health problems in the [...]
Study Session – Regenerate (YOU)th: Cultivating Circular Economy Solutions in Youth Work
AEGEE-Europe participated in a Study Session in co-operation with Council of Europe’s Youth Department (YD). The Study Session, entitled Regenerate (YOU)th: Cultivating Circular Economy Solutions in Youth Work, aimed to foster the quality development of youth work by enhancing youth workers’ competencies in circular economy and project management in order [...]
Girls Go Circular
Girls Go Circular is one of the ongoing initiatives supported by the European Commission under the Digital Education Action Plan. AEGEE-Europe is proud to be one of the partners contributing to this project, with many other actors led by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Girls Go Circular [...]
Let’s Break the Erasmus Bubble
The project “Let’s Break the Erasmus Bubble” is one of the recently funded projects. It is an Erasmus+ project under Key Action 2. AEGEE-Europe is honoured to be a partner organisation and to work collaboratively with the Consortium to accomplish the project’s goal, namely supporting international students in host countries. [...]
CESCY – Circular Economy- Sustainable Competences for Youth
CESCY (Circular Economy- Sustainable Competences for Youth) is one of the current Erasmus+ funded projects of AEGEE. It is coordinated by Lowmerism OÜ in cooperation with Common Gold, Zink Asturias, Mentes Emprendedoras and Associazione Redu Rete Educare Ai Diritti Humani. With this project we aim to bring together different stakeholders [...]
European Change Makers Academy
ECMA is one of the most recent Erasmus+ funded projects of AEGEE. It is coordinated by OBESSU in cooperation with AEGEE-Europe, AEGEE-Bamberg, AEGEE-Budapest, AEGEE-Tartu & AEGEE-Zagreb, as well as Youth for Exchange and Understanding, Impossible Foundation, ARCI Liguria and ISSU. ECMA empowers young people to become change makers in their [...]
InclusiON NOW!
InclusiON NOW! Development of Inclusive Youth Work in the Eastern Partnership countries Equality, inclusion and diversity are core values of youth work in Europe. Many vulnerable young people in the Eastern Partnership countries have limited access to the four major aspects of inclusion: education, healthcare, employment and civic participation. The [...]
HerMainY
In 2020 AEGEE has launched a new project, called HerMainY, that focuses on Gender Mainstreaming in the field of Communication. This project is funded by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and it is the ideal continuation of the GENDERS project: it addresses youth organisations on the [...]
MINT: Mental Health In Non-Formal Education And Training
Since Autumn 2018, AEGEE / European Students’ Forum has been raising awareness on the topic of Mental Health within the organization. In Autumn 2019, thanks to the support of the European Youth Foundation (Council of Europe), AEGEE launched a project titled MINT: Mental health In Non-formal education and Training. This [...]
My Europe My Say Final Conference
After a little more than a year working on engaging, informing and empowering young people to take action and participate in the European Parliament elections in May 2019, now we are ready to build a better Europe and look back on the fruitful partnership AEGEE-Europe has been having with the [...]
SMASH Final Conference
As the final step of our project SMASH (Structural Measures Against Sexual Harassment), we will organise the final conference of SMASH in the European Parliament on the 5th of December! During the conference, we will go through the lessons learnt during the project and present the guidelines developed as an outcome of [...]
YEP 2.0 – Why European Parliament 2.0
Due to the success of YEP, AEGEE- Europe has decided to continue the work and create “Why European Parliament 2.0. – YEP 2.0.” in the frame of the upcoming European Parliament election, on May 23-26th. Gender equality, sustainably, paid internships, safe traveling or youth employment: the European Parliament has an [...]
Inclusive Mobility Alliance – Press Release
Press Release Inclusive Mobility Alliance puts forth recommendations for a more inclusive Erasmus programme The Inclusive Mobility Alliance has been officially launched on the 22nd of January 2019 at the European Parliament. Gathering more than 20 organisations with expertise in Disability, Youth and Higher Education, the Alliance aims at making [...]
SMASH – Structural Measures Against Sexual Harassment
Starting from Autumn 2017, AEGEE / European Students’ Forum has been raising awareness and tackling the problem of sexual harassment and consent inside our organisation. In 2019, and thanks to the support of the European Youth Foundation (Council of Europe), AEGEE is launching a project titled S.M.A.S.H.: Structural Measures Against [...]
My Europe, My Say! Putting young people at the heart of the debate
My Europe, My Say is a European project, implemented by a consortium led by the World Organisation of the Scout Movement- Bureau Européen du Scoutisme (WOSM). The consortium includes AEGEE-Europe and 48 independent youth organisations members of these two networks across Europe, and covers 30 countries. You can check the [...]
Why European Parliament – The results
The European Parliament and other institutions within the European Union are important, but for many not easy to understand. In our efforts to reach and educate young people about the functioning of the European Parliament, we have reached over 20.000 people monthly, and increased knowledge on the European Parliament and [...]
GENDERS
Do you think that in your youth organisation all genders are not treated equally? Do you want to learn how to make your activities and structures more gender friendly? Do you want to empower people from all genders within your organisation? But you don’t know how to do it? Then [...]
Diversity in youth organisations? – AEGEE, JEF and ESN take action
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 [...]
AEGEE launches “Why European Parliament”
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 [...]