About AEGEE
AEGEE-Moskva
AEGEE-Moskva is one of more than 240 university cities in Europe which are united in the European Students Forum (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l'Europe, or AEGEE). Our members are bachelor, master and Ph.D. students from various universities of Moscow, majoring in different fields, from management, economics and political sciences to journalists and musicians. We're working together thanks to the common interest in communication and cooperation with other countries, urge for learning from other cultures and to sharing the better of our own one, to study even outside university buildings.
We organize education and cultural events, conferences and seminars for students from Russia and other European countries. Since AEGEE-Moskva has been founded in 1991, we have held more than 30 international and local events.
AEGEE-Moskva Projects
- Summer Universities (immersion course in Russian culture: various excursions, visits to Moscow, Saint-Peterburg, Petergof, Novgorod, Pskov, Vldimir, Suzdal, and otherfanous ancient cities)
- seminars and training courses (various topics)
- conferences (often dedicated to cooperation between Russia and other European countries)
- exchanges with other branches of AEGEE
- round tables, discussions, forum, dedicated to the process of European intergration, hot topics in the sphere of international relations, politics and economics
- European Days of Languages Activities.
History
More about history of AEGEE as one of the biggest European student organizations:
The European Students’ Forum AEGEE takes its name from one of the birthplaces of democracy, the Aegean Sea, and the first parliament at the dawn of the French Revolution, Les Etats Generaux. Founded at Sorbonne in Paris (France) in 1985, AEGEE has become one of Europe's largest interdisciplinary student associations, which promotes a unified Europe, cross-border co-operation, communication, integration among students and strives to create an open and tolerant society of tomorrow. AEGEE is a voluntary, non-profit organisation that operates without being linked to any political party. It is represented in 40 countries all around Europe and has about 15 000 members.
AEGEE enjoys support from the European Commission, has consultative status at the Council of Europe and UN. AEGEE is also a member of the European Youth Forum and has co-operated with UNESCO on international projects.
Last but not least, AEGEE is made of incredibly motivated young people, who work for what they believe in, getting in return personal satisfaction and the hope that they have slightly influenced the course of things they were a part of. In short, a Europe oriented person finds in AEGEE an almost perfect environment to learn and act as a European.
In the last few years, AEGEE has mainly dealt with topics of Higher Education, Peace and Stability, Cultural Exchange and Active Citizenship. Therefore, at the 30th General Assembly held in Udine (Italy), November 2000, it was decided and voted upon that these topics represent the four main pillars of AEGEE's youth involvement.
We call them FIELDS of ACTION:
Higher education
AEGEE has a long history when it comes to its involvement in the Higher Education matters. Everything started already in 1987 when AEGEE began to support the Erasmus program of the European Community. AEGEE insists on Mobility as one of the most important tools of developing Higher Education in Europe.
Peace & stability
Spreading knowledge on democracy, value of tolerance and open-mindedness, AEGEE has always held quite an important role when it comes to Peace and Stability, especially in Southeast Europe. AEGEE projects are the best example of how AEGEE has been working towards that particular goal. "Peace Academy" in 1999 dealt with conflict resolution whereas "Education for Democracy" in 2000 and "Palestinians-Israelis-Europeans" in 2002 brought students from conflict areas into the EU countries to study and develop an objective viewpoint on the conflict issue.
Cultural exchange
The most successful AEGEE project is the Summer University project. Summer Universities are organised by most of our local branches and incarnate the nest of cultural exchange in AEGEE. More than 5 000 students every summer go for an adventure somewhere in Europe to learn about the language and culture of another country for two whole weeks.
Active citizenship
AEGEE follows the events in Europe. If it touches upon one of the fields of our interest we, the AEGEE members, feel the need to express our opinion. We recognize the need to be well informed about issues which shape our future, e.g. strict VISA policies or Bologna process.
Weekly Meeting
Attention!about meetings during summer time: read the mailing list or ask smb from the board (team). Next meeting will be on the 5th of July at 20:00 at the same place as usual.
Every Sunday, 7:00pm
Prime Star cafe - m. Kitay-Gorod, Maroseika str., 6/8 b.1
Every sunday, at seven o'clock in the evening we all go to drink coffee. Certainly, there we're not only making a big nothing and chatter for life :). Each of us has his own aims, his own job in AEGEE and we meet to discuss it, to coordinate our actions and think out something interesting and new. We meet to share interesting information, to exchange ideas and news.
But the main purpose of the sunday meeting is that new people who had only heard about AEGEE and found it interesting could come and take a look at us, get acquainted with us, understand what we are busy with and (if they wish) stay and have some coffee :).
