About AEGEE  
 

AEGEE (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l'Europe) is a student organisation that promotes co-operation, communication and integration amongst young people in Europe. Through active and critical confrontation with Europe, AEGEE wants to help develop an open and tolerant society. As a non-governmental, politically independent and non-profit organisation AEGEE is open to students from all faculties and disciplines.

AEGEE, which was founded in 1985 in Paris, puts the idea of a unified Europe into practice. A widely spread student network of 15,000 members in 240 local branches provides the ideal platform where young people can work together, free from any national way of thinking. AEGEE brings together youth workers and young volunteers from 40 European countries with activities such as conferences, seminars, exchanges, training courses, Summer Universities, case study trips and Working Group meetings. By encouraging travel and mobility, stimulating discussion and organising common projects AEGEE attempts to overcome national, cultural and ethnic divisions and to create a vision of young people's Europe.

AEGEE's main fields of actions are Peace & Stability, Active Citizenship, Cultural Exchange and Higher Education.

AEGEE does not consider any national organisation level, and relies solely on the local branches and a European level that consists of Working Groups, commissions and the European Board of Directors. AEGEE has participatory status in the activities of the Council of Europe, consultative status at the United Nations, operational status at UNESCO and is at the same time a member of the European Youth Forum. The organisation has also a number of illustrious personalities amongst its general partners: Mikhael Gorbatchev, the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic; Eric Froment, President of the European University Association, Wolfgang Thierse, President of the Bundestag and Bronislaw Geremek, former Chairman of OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland.