What is AEGEE?
“I’ve been a member of AEGEE for only one year, but this year changed my understanding of Europe. Before it was abstract, now it is full of life! I met so many interesting people and got to know so many different cultures and ways of thinking! I think, many other students should start seeing Europe that way.”
Conny Reichel, AEGEE-Passau
Following the slogan “removing borders and turning united Europe into reality” AEGEE acts in more than 260 cities across Europe with 17 000 members participating in Summer Universities, parties, Conferences and Working Groups striving for cross-border cooperation and international networks. AEGEE is open for students from all faculties.
AEGEE is a student organisation that promotes co-operation, communication and integration among young people in Europe. Through critical and active confrontation with Europe of today and tomorrow, AEGEE wants to help develop an open and tolerant society. AEGEE, founded in Paris in 1985, puts the idea of a unified Europe into practise. AEGEE does not consider any national organisation level and relies solely on the local groups and a European level that consists of Working Groups, Commissions and the European Board of Directors. In Finland AEGEE has local groups in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere.
AEGEE in Helsinki
AEGEE-Helsinki (founded in 1992) has students from Helsinki University, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and Swedish School of Economics.
Our meetings are usually held at our office. In addition to meetings we organize social gatherings, theme parties of different countries (e.g. Italian night), sauna evenings, movie nights, cottage trips, winter trips and lots more. See our calendar of events. Often we organise parties in co-operation with the other international student organisations in the universities or other AEGEE locals in Finland and Estonia.
Every year we organise an exchange with another antenna. So far our partners have been Barcelona, Kaunas, Istanbul, Tartu, St. Petersburg, Novi Sad, Lublin, Maribor, Sibiu and Maastricht.
Summer Universities
Every year dozens of our members go abroad to a AEGEE Summer University. A Summer University can be about learning Spanish in Madrid, canoeing in Czech Republic or getting to know the local culture in Ukraine. Each year around 90 Summer Universities take place all around Europe, with around 2500 students from more than 30 European countries; from France to Moldova, and from Finland to Malta. Learn more about Summer Universities and apply, it is a two week experience you will never forget!
AEGEE-Helsinki has organised a Summer University every year since 1995. In 2007 we joined forces with AEGEE-Turku and AEGEE-Tampere, and once again organized a memorable Summer University. Our Travelling Summer University (TSU) Living by Lakes was very popular among the AEGEE members and we received almost 300 applications from all around Europe. Our TSU included 15 funpacked summer days & summer nights in three great cities: Turku, Tampere and Helsinki. We also spent four days at a cottage in Nurmijärvi and made an excursion to Tallinn.
AGORA
The statutory meetings of AEGEE (AGORA) are held in the spring and in the autumn each time in a different city in Europe. Every time thousand students from all around the Europe gather together to discuss proposals and projects, to take decisions and take part of active social program.