Nescafé is sponsoring AEGEE-Valletta, the Malta affiliate of the European Student Forum in the organisation and hosting of its forthcoming bi-annual General Network Assembly, also known as AGORA. The event, a mammoth project that will see the participation of over 600 fellow AEGEEans will be held on the University of Malta Campus, between 26-29 April 2007 and is being organised as part of AEGEE-Valletta’s celebrations of 10 years of activity on campus.
During the AGORA, special workshops are held to discuss particular topics and issues that interest the network, like student-mobility issues, or Euro-Islam, and the network year plan is then possibly decided upon. For the current year 2007, AEGEE-Europe has in fact opted to revive the student-mobility topic, based also on the 20th anniversary since the Erasmus Exchange Programme was launched. The forum is also expected to include a programme of social events for the AGORA participants, to enjoy, savour and experience Maltese hospitality at its best.
“Nescafé is proud to associate itself with this event which will bring together a vast number of students of different nationalities within one forum to discuss such an important issue as that of student mobility,” comments a spokesperson for Nestlé Malta. “We are conscious that this subject is one of the main aims for which AEGEE was formed – to promote mobility throughout a Europe with no borders. Therefore, we are looking forward to being an active part in the success of this international forum and we will also be making sure that all participants are giving a warm welcome with our Nescafé coffee products throughout their four-day assembly.”
AEGEE or the Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de l’Europe is considered to be one of the biggest interdisciplinary student organisations in Europe, with presence in over 260 academic cities, spanning 40 countries all around Europe. AEGEE is a secular, non-profit organisation and not linked to any political party and its aim is to promote a truly borderless Europe, for a unified Europe without prejudices, for an open and tolerant society of today and tomorrow, and to foster democracy, human rights, mobility and a European dimension in education.
AEGEE-Europe was the motivator behind the Erasmus Exchange, and is still actively pursuing this project through its antennas. Indeed, AEGEE-Valletta cooperates actively with the European Office of University of Malta, where it assists by organising several cultural and social evenings for the Erasmus students studying at the University of Malta.
The AGORA project is also being supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Employment, Ministry for Tourism and Culture, University of Malta and KSU.