Training School

   From 11.-14.10.2001, students from ten European countries met in Passau to experience the first Education Working Group Training School. It provided them with all the skills everybody who is active in the field of higher education or in a multicultural organisation needs. We learnt about the Socrates programme and how to promote it via the AEGEE projects Socrates Action Week and Socrates on the Move, the Bologna process and its impact on students. As to the more general workshops, the participants were informed about project management at the European level and about funding possibilities for projects, and improved their motivation, communication and presentation skills. Last but not least, the role of AEGEE in educational matters was discussed and the EWG and its current and future projects presented and planned.

Socrates Action Week

   Last year AEGEE-Education WG organised Socrates Action Week, continuing the tradition from 1997. Although the period was identified between 12-16 November, its length exceeded this period and many locals from different parts of Europe promoted of the possibilities the SOCRATES exchange programme offers among students, evaluated its performance and pointed out remaining obstacles and problems. Socrates Action Week was held in collaboration with the "Socrates on the Move 2001" and co-ordinated jointly by AEGEE, ESIB and ESN with the support of the European Commission. This promotion has been carried out for years by our organization fighting for mobility and a borderless Europe. AEGEE locals have always been very active and enthusiastic about helping in the promotion. In AEGEE, we learned that action speaks louder than words therefore, as we believe in this idiom, we are doing lots of actions.

Borderless Education Rally

   The Education Working Group promotes the Bologna Process, which aims among others to improve the recognition of studies abroad and to synchronize the curricula in the different countries. With events like the workshop during the PM 2002, we are informing all interested parties about the challenges and advantages of this process and about new developments, which we would also like to give input to. In this respect, we are planning to organize a study trip to the universities in different countries this autumn. By comparing the situations, innovative and traditional solutions to the challenges of the modern university world, the "ideal" university structure will be identified, and proposed to be implemented in the Bologna Process.