Category Exchange

Groningen is the largest city in the north of the Netherlands, as well as the name of the surrounding province. Groningen is a student city and also a city with a big AEGEE-Antenna. Quite regularly they organize hitchhiking races to several cities in Europe, with a cultural program and a lot of going on during the day and night being in the visited city.

Next weekend, 3rd to 5th of June, a group of 16 AEGEEans from AEGEE-Groningen is coming to Dresden. Well, 16 if all of them arrive, otherwise a few less…

What’s the plan?
After arriving on Friday and maybe joining us for our regular Ice Cream Test they will sleep the first night at their hosts‘ places from AEGEE-Dresden...

AEGEE-Dresden followed DresDino to Warszawa!

From 5th to 10th May we enjoyed a wonderful exchange with AEGEE-Warszawa and AEGEE-Kyiv in Warszawa.

We had five days fully packed with workshops about the refugee crisis, teambuilding and getting to know Ukrainian, Polish and German culture together with the particpants of the other two contries. Now we know more detailed what’s going on in Europe, what fleeing from a country really is, and how the whole situation affects us and affects refugees.

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Six AEGEE-Dresden members, together with two members of ESN TU Dresden went to a youth exchange funded by the Erasmus+ Program near Zamora in a small town called Muga de Sayago. We had lots of fun learning about Entrepreneurship and Youth Social Initiatives with the participants from five other countries: Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Lithuania and Greece. We had the opportunity to get to know other associations and also present ourselves, we enjoyed the Spanish food and the warm weather, the trip to Salamanca and the kayaking, and we finished the ten days with a short city trip to Madrid.

From 4th to 7th of June, a big group of AEGEE-Dresden members followed DresDino, our mascot, to Wrocław. Breslau – that’s the german name of the city – has 630,000 inhabitants and is located in the Lower Silesian province in south western Poland, roughly 280 km away from Dresden. What makes Wrocław special is the fact that it is one of the partner cities of Dresden.

On the first day of the exchange we were nicely welcomed with a polish Barbecue and met the great people from Wrocław and some more members from AEGEE-Berlin. All the team building and working on the programme for the subsequent event, our awesome Summer University organized together.

Even better was the fact that we had the opportunity to try som...

20 members of AEGEE-Kyїv came to Dresden for an exchange from 1st to 6th of May. We hosted them and organized a full-time 6-day program for them with many cultural activities, workshops and trips. The focus part of this exchange were the workshops and discussions about the current issues in Ukraine and Active Citizenship.

Our guests really enjoyed the time with us and also liked the guided city tours in Dresden, Leipzig and the hiking tour through the Sächsische Schweiz. After the awesome group dynamics started and all participants got to know each other, the content-related part of the event could be worked on in a very amicable and trusting ambience – everybody trusted everyone else, felt secure and therefore the delicate discussions about politics were very fruitful...

Our member Max was the main organizer of our exchange with AEGEE-Krakow. We welcomed them in Dresden for four days, and this is what Max said after his first event as main organizer.After a few months in AEGEE it was my turn to organize the exchange between the AEGEE-Dresden and AEGEE-Krakow. I had a lot of support within the group and everyone shared his or her ideas with me so we had a really nice frame very quick