Ideas Factory Léon

Last week I was in the sunny León for the Ideas Factory. There ideas for the Strategic Plan of AEGEE-Europe were produced and discussed. The Strategic Plan is the long term planning of AEGEE-Europe for the next three years. It consists out of Focus Areas and Organisational Improvements. Focus Areas are thematic goals that AEGEE wants to achieve and the Organisational Improvements are improvements to AEGEE as an organisation. Out of these four days filled with discussions about what should be done with AEGEE and Europe seven proposals for Focus Areas and several proposals for Organisational Improvements emerged. You can find them on the AEGEE-forum, http://www.zeus.aegee.org/forum/index.php. Besides the serious stuff some culture was also exchanged. The first night we had tapas in the fashion typical to León. With every drink you get a small dish for free, meaning that you can scrounge together an entire meal as the evening goes along. At the European Night Goldstrike and stroopwafels were exchanged for sangria and later in the club dance moves as well. Sadly I had to leave for the Netherlands the next morning where the weather luckily travelled with me. In this week I have had many interesting discussions and got to know AEGEE and AEGEEans even more!