Former AEGEE-Academy speaker Peter Daemen experiences a completely new world currently: a couple of weeks ago the 29-year old business analyst started a new job in Beijing. “Work itself is one long string of inter-cultural experiences, and it is awesome”, he says. The Golden Times asked the former Vice-President of AEGEE-Enschede and project team member of the “Youth & Globalisation” project about his new life and his impressions. Peter:... 

Rissana Shytu AEGEE and Les Anciens members have a close relationship with hostels. They slept in countless of them. However, Les Anciens and AEGEE members as hostel owners – that’s something new. It happened just a few weeks ago in Kyiv: Rissana Shytu, Tim Joris “TJ” Kaiser and Philip Knuppel opened “The Hub” in the Ukrainian capital. AEGEE and Les Anciens members get ten percent discount – and AEGEE-Kyiv will host the participants... 

Former CD member Matina Magkou does what most people in AEGEE would love to do: organizing events for money. The Les Anciens member from Athens is working as cultural manager and festival manager all over Europe. The Golden Oldie asked her about her exciting life. Golden Oldie: Matina, it’s really hard to keep track of your location. Where do you live now? Matina Magkou: The last three years I am between Madrid and Athens and I am enjoying it a... 

Mark de Beer (centre) at the awarding ceremony A couple of weeks ago, Mark de Beer, former President of AEGEE-Europe, became Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the Dutch community of Barneveld. His company, a family enterprise which produces technical sanitary parts, became first out of 60 nominated firms. “We grew over 500 percent in the last seven years, which probably also had some influence on the decision,” told Mark the Golden Oldie. Golden... 

Egita Aizsilniece A few days ago Les Anciens member Egita Aizsilniece (31) became Honorary Member of AEGEE-Riga. The board of the antenna nominated her at the last local agora. Egita founded AEGEE-Riga back in June 2001, after being part of AEGEE-Europe’s “Socrates on the Move” project on behalf of ESIB, one of AEGEE’s partner associations for the project. By being one of the Socrates promoters, Egita got in contact with AEGEE. Since there... 

Sometimes people love the most what they don’t have. For example mountains. Fabian Vendrig comes from the Netherlands – a country, whose highest mountain, the Vaalserberg, is 322,5 meters high (if you don’t take Mount Scenery on the Dutsch Caribbean island Saba into account). Nevertheless, Fabian Vendrig loves mountains. High mountains. That’s why he recently climbed up the Triglav, the most famous and with 2864 meters also... 

From hot to cold: Les Anciens member Carla Parra Escartin (28) moved from Zaragoza to Bergen a few days ago – and really enjoys her new home. The researcher and teacher at San Jorge University will spend the next three years in the Norwegian city in order to teach, research and do her PhD there. “I just love Bergen. It is a really charming city,” says Carla about her first impression. The founder and former president of AEGEE-Tübingen,... 

There is life after AEGEE – even for Enrico Lai, whose name is a synonym for the European students association, in Cagliari and Europe. The Les Anciens member, former Agora vice chair and most famous dentist in AEGEE has been unanimously elected auditor in the European Regional Organization (ERO) of the World Dental Organization (FDI). The assembly took place on the 16 of April in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. “FDI is the most important... 

It is one of the most prestigious universities in the world – the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, part of the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. World Bank president Robert Zoellick studied here, so did Hong Kong Chief Executive Sir Donald Tsang or Canada’s former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Starting next month a person which is more familiar to AEGEE will study there on her way to become famous: Ivana Vukov,... 

“Change takes time. I hope that the people of Egypt will have the stamina and strength to build up a new strong country,” says Les Anciens member Natalie Kolbe (second from left on the photo). Egypt has become a second home for the former AEGEE member from Bremen. Natalie Kolbe has been working in Cairo most past of the past decade, where she also organised the Les Anciens meeting together with Karina Häuslmeier in  2008. Since November...