Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Friday - the last day






Thursday, November 26, 2009

WICKED WEDNESDAY

Nobody wanted to get up, so we played loud metal music. After Dutch breakfast we had some energizers and Inte told us something about non-verbal communication. Ramon made us dance on newspaper.

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If you don’t know how to prepare powerpoint presentation, ask him. If you don’t know Ramon, a Japanese Guy can tell you more about 10-20-30 rule. :)
We were discovering PR-problems with Anita and trying to find solutions to them.

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We had fierce discussion about cheating Abigale, helpful Sinbad and traditional Tom. Who is the most guilty???
Different ideas about culture were expressed with an iceberg, which was transformed into a tree.
We discovered our identitiy with designing T-shirts. It’s too bad we can not wear them, because they are not comfortable and paper is not washable. At least not yet. :)

PRES is GREAT



We were taught some vital presenation skills- how to sell tomato juıce to the Ku Klux Klan, or how to promote a porn channel to your favourite professor. A misunderstanding led to a discussion among the two alfa(fe)males in the group.

The evaluation took a whopping two hours. We’re kidding, but it took long enough to make Ramon sweat, while he was waiting outside. Concerning the food: Breakfast is OK, Dinner is warm and Lunch is… Dutch yet again.

And last but not least we had the European Drinking night.

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Some girls, regularly chewing theır hair, felt really dirty when going to the party (ask them about it!).
The night certainly took Gizem’s memory away. Isaac was really disappointed when she turned all her attention to Simon (Belgian). Isaac we feel for you.
For some people the party seemed really boring, since they fell asleep- luckily they saved the snorring for later.
Ramon prepared a really good drinking game. Everyone who participated couldn’t find their way back to the gym on their own. Barbara was unlucky, since she was drinking only water. But she got really high with the Romanian dudes later. Jurriaan, however, got really wasted.

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And Anka looked like she was having sweet dreams.

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This day was a great success!

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Ursa, Senem, Nina, Jurriaan

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Fears are falling, PR is coming!

One of our biggest fears - sleeping in the gym - has fallen off the tree because we had sweet dreams in a really cozy atmosphere. After getting up, Hilde took us in Africa for about 10 minutes to perform a dance to the gods of PR to get inspired for what was going to happen next.
20 people came here from different European countries with different PR knowledge and background, so our first task was to bring everyone to the same level. In order to do this we discussed the core expressions of the field.
Then we were ready to talk about the PR strategy of projects and events. Ramon showed us that the most important thing is to know ourselves in order to set up a good strategy. We became more colorful by identifying our strengths and weaknesses. In the end, the room was full of adventurous oranges, gold builders, green planners and blue relaters. We learned that only by combining these we can create a perfect team.
Of course being in a foreign country can also mean having cultural shocks. One of these was the Dutch lunch. There was almost a public outcry for having what we consider to be breakfast for lunch. :)
The most creative part of the day was the role-play workshop. Anita made us be part of different situations, from which we learned how to represent our local in the outside world, but also how to use our contacts to fulfill our plans.
From the local approach of PR we moved to AEGEE’s European level. Anita presented the PR tools used by AEGEE Europe, which gave us a lot of ideas, that we can implement in our locals.
This time we had real Dutch food for dinner at an AEGEE-Leiden member’s place. The main dish was made of mashed potatoes, tomatoes, ham, salad, sausages. Then we had chocolate and vanilla vla. Mmm…yummy!
In the evening we went to ‘DeBranderij’ for AEGEE-Leiden social drink ane some of us ended up playing “I have never, ever…” :) and others went to “Hifi” to have a very fancy party.

Photos are coming soon! Stay tuned!

Hugs,
Barbara, Alexandra and Stefan.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

PRES here!

Hello Europe!


Live from Leiden (Holland), the Public Relations European School is reporting! An interesting cocktail of cultures and personalities is now shaking up the town and having the time of their lives!
The 20 participants came from all over Europe: Germany, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Russia, Slovenia, Belgium, Macedonia, Hungary and of course Holland. Moreover, our lovely team of trainers is a cultural mix itself: Hilde from Holland, Ramon from Spain and Anita, Network Director of AEGEE -Europe.

Even though some of us were tired after a long journey, there was still a lot of interest in the city tour and lots of enthusiasm for the introduction games. Like a true AEGEE event the ice breaking games brought together 20 strangers from different cultures. We dare say beautiful friendships will emerge here and, who knows, some ... more? :) The sleeping bags might not keep one warm enough during the cold nights of Leiden :)

And what better way to start a typical Dutch week than with Chinese take-out food? The dinner was an assurance that the happy hour from Odessa won't get us dizzy... too fast :) Even though this precaution was taken, some people – who shall not be named :P– ended the night dancing on the tables! The local organizers sure know where to party in Leiden.
PRES is not just fun and games, so we can't wait for this week's workshops which start very early (8 am) for us, party animals :)

Leiden sends lots of love to all of you!


PRoudly yours,
Anca (AEGEE-Cluj-Napoca), Isaac (AEGEE-Utrecht) & Rares (AEGEE-Bucharest)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

PRES is here!

Open

Just some days before the great kick off. Content is ready, organizers are charging energy and participants are packing their luggages. Next message will be face to face.

But before leaving home, some useful information.

Contact AEGEE Leiden with your arrival information at joycemhofman@gmail.com

Also, once you reach Holland, send a message to the organizers ( +316 2391 9001 ) so they will go to pick you up at Leiden's train Station.

In case you get lost or something happens, take note of the address of the Gym where we will stay.

pieterskerkgracht 7
2311 SZ Leiden


Last but not least, check twice your luggage to see if you are missing any of these:

# Warm clothes: it's November, its Holland, it will be around 10ºC
# Umbrella
# Sleepingbag
# Mattress to sleep on (you will be staying in a gym)
# warm pajama's
# a local drink for the European Night
# local food/snack for the European Night
# a cup/mug --> sustain (y)our future!
# a sticker of your antenna if you happen to have one :)

If you have any doubt or questions, remember you can contact us.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Promo Video

Public Relations European School is each time closer!

Friday, October 30, 2009

Week of changes.

Hilde

As you may have seen during this days, we have delayed our participants list. The reason for this have been some with the facilities that have made us make some changes in the programme.

Public Relations European School 1 Leiden will last now from November 23 - 28. This change for a shorter event is also focusing the content of the European School in a great way. Participants are going to enjoy this brand new six days.

Monday, October 26, 2009

How to reach Leiden

Travel

By Airplane
You can fly to Schiphol (Amsterdam) airport and catch a train from there, the trainride will take about 20 minutes and costs €5,30.
The other closest airport is Rotterdam Airport. From the central station it takes about 30 minutes to get to Leiden and it costs €6,60.
Another option is to fly to Eindhoven Airport, you can catch a train from there on. This trainride takes about 2 hours and costs €18,80 (Ryanair only hits Eindhoven so this actually is a really good option)

some websites you might find usefull:
www.ryanair.com

www.skyscanner.net

By Train
If you're not coming from too far away or you're flying to Germany or Belgium, you might consider catching a train.

International trains can be found on these websites
http://www.nshispeed.nl/en (dutch international railways)
www.bahn.de (german railways)
http://www.belrail.be/E/index.php (belgian railways)

and the national railways can be found here: http://www.ns.nl/cs/Satellite/travellers

By bus
http://www.eurolines.nl/?lang=ENG You can catch a bus to The Hague or Amsterdam and catch a train from there on to Leiden Central Station


Other important things to have in mind...
The participants will be sleeping in a gym so they need to bring a sleepingbag and something to sleep on.
In November chances are that it will rain alot so they also need to bring an umbrella.
It will also be cold so they need to bring warm clothes! (temperatures around 5-10 Cº)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Meet our Trainers

As announced some days ago, we are glad of having between us a great new trainer for next Public Relations European School.

Ready to show us all the best about creativity in Public Relations, Hilde de Leeuw.

Hilde

Monday, October 19, 2009

We can feel the box opening

Stay connected to us.

With great news we are entering the last month before our great Public Relations European School.

PRES Poster

We are proud of having a great new trainer in the team, soon to be introduced for everybody in the blog, the great Hilde de Leeuw, a whole superwoman ready to show all the best to our participants.

Participants that are now selected and will receive an email in the next days.

And coming soon, a great PRES promo video!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Welcome to Leiden

All you want to know about Leiden

Leiden

With its 118.000 inhabitants Leiden isn't a very big city but it's ancient city centre is really beautiful. There are many small canals and typical dutch houses. In the city centre you can find several old churches of which the st. Petes church might be the most import one. St. Pete. is the patron of Leiden and the keys to the gates of Heaven that he holds in his hands can also be found in the coat of the arms of Leiden.
As the story goes, the mayor of the city gave the the people of Leiden an option between never having to pay taxes anymore or getting a University. The citizens chose for a university and this university is now the oldest in all of the Netherlands.
The most important holiday in Leiden is celebrated on the 3rd of October when the end of the Spanish siege is celebrated. It's celebrated by an annual parade, a day of, a fair and eating the traditional food of herring, whitebread and hutspot (mashed potatoes, carrots and unions).

AEGEE-Leiden

AEGEE Leiden

AEGEE-Leiden has been one of the few founding locals that is still alive and we're proud of it! At the beginning AEGEE-Leiden was one of the bigger antenna's in the network with around 300 members, later on, around the year 2002 there were about 26 members left, so something had to change. Thanks to some great boards we had in the past years we are now back to 280 members and still growing. Most of our active members are active in commitees or so-called disputen (smaller groups within AEGEE-Leiden). Our committees are responsible for several parts of our antenna, such as the P.R., Summer University or local membersweekends to other antennas. There is also a weekly social drink at the center of Leiden that we will go to during the PRES.
This year is a special year since we and AEGEE-Europe are becoming 25, because of this we are very happy to organize the spring AGORA 2010!

Monday, October 12, 2009

The box is getting ready

Hello everybody!

Applications and applications

These days we have been reading and re-reading all the applications we have received. There are lots of good and innovative applications, right what we were looking for!

In the next days we will show the selected participants list and everybody who has applied will receive an email from us.

Stay tuned for the final news!

Friday, October 2, 2009

Meet our trainers

This year, the Public Relations European School in Leiden will have the great chance to count with the visit of a member of the Comité Directeur of AEGEE Europe as a trainer for some days and that way show us some great information and tips in the Communications and Public Relations fields for organizations.

Anita

Anita is AEGEE-Europe Vice President & Network Director, responsible also for internal communication within the network. Although she has experience in PR both being AEGEE-Riga PR responsible 2006-2007 and doing some other PR stuff, her true love is journalism already for more than five years. Being on both sides of PR has given her a possibility evaluate communicaton between journalists and PR specialists from different aspects.

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Participants profile

Dear AEGEE Members,

I am happy to announce you that application period of Participants for PRES1 Leiden has started. We are looking for 24 highly motivated future PR Workers
If you are free between 21-29 November 2009 and if you are willing to be one of new PR BEASTS for our Network;
This open call is for YOU!!!
We are waiting for you applications!!

Apply!

PRES 1

“Out of the box – Creativity and communication for international youth NGOs and projects”

Aim

To improve the knowledge of participants on possible useful tools about online Media and PR and to let them experience the implementation of these techniques To increase the visibility and outreach of youth organisations and their international projects through increasing the knowledge and skills of the participants in the field of creativity and communication in order to create more impact on society.

Objectives

- To increase participants’ knowledge and skills about communication channels, creativity, basics of successful dissemination of results, intercultural communication, practical skills in fields of dealing with media, presentation techniques, giving feedback, motivation techniques and working methods in a multi-cultural environment.

- To provide youth workers with the knowledge, skills and tools to develop, implement and evaluate communication measures within their own local, regional or international environment.

- To equip participants with knowledge and information needed for  independent creation and execution of Internal and External Public Relations strategy

- To enable participants to conduct effective public awareness campaigns in local level and European Level ( how does PRWG Function)

- To create the environment to discuss why developing corporate image and identity is important for an NGO and how it could be developed

- To raise the awareness of participants about different kinds of Public Relations tools and give them the hints on how to find and create innovative PR tools,

- To improve the knowledge of participants about different techniques that could be used to evaluate a Public Relations strategy

TC Duration

Eight full working days - participants arrival is 21st November until evening departure 29th November from morning 2009.

(Participants are expected to come on 21th November latest and leave on 29th November)

TC Place

The Netherlands- Leiden.
 
 
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

Accommodation, meals, training materials and social program will be provided by AEGEE – Leiden and Participation fee is 60 Euros.

There is NO travel Reimbursement


APPLICATION PROCEDURE & DEADLINE

Interested candidates should submit their applications at:

http://www.aegee-academy.org/es/home.php

not later than October 9th 2009.

 
SELECTION PROCEDURE

The selection will be carried out by the Manager of PRES1 with the suggestions of AEGEE Academy and PRWG, based on the criteria specified in the "participants profile" section. The selected participants will be informed directly by October 12th 2009

Meet our trainers

Our project coordinator is not working alone in this big project, he is supported by a great team of trainers.

Ramón

Hi, I'm Ramón, from the North of Spain, I'm finishing my telecommunications studies and since 2007 working as independent trainer and facilitator in the field of creativity and innovation in youth projects.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Meet our Project Manager

As the project is getting closer, here you can get some information about the coordinator and trainer who is making all this training course possible.

Berat

Hello, my name is Berat, I am working as youth trainer since 2003 and currently live in Croatia, I am in pool of trainers of AEGEE Academy and Salto Youth, currently working as freelance trainer and consultant for EU grants, youth work development in Croatia.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

What will we be doing?

PRES I, Public Relations European School, is a one week training designed for potential and present PR activists on local level of AEGEE.

Public Relations European School

It aims at giving the participants the necessary tools and theories todesign a sound PR strategy for an AEGEE branch.

During the mornings the participants will take part in lectures andworkshops, which focuses on providing them the theoretical backgroundthat they will be able to use during the simulations carried out inthe afternoon. Participants of the event get trained in both internaland external public relations becoming qualified to handle the publicrelations activities needed in an AEGEE branch.

The fields of training include:

- designing a PR strategy for an AEGEE branch and for a project
- strategic partners of an NGO on local level
- building an image and corporate identity,
- human resources and public relations management
- types of media and media relations
- presentation techniques
- making powerpoint presentations
- creating promotion materials
- designing webpages

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Website and Participant Applications Open

With the opening of the oficial website of the Public Relations European School in the AEGEE Academy website, the application process for participants has also been opened and if you are one of those who waits until the last minute, deadline is in a month, the 3rd of October.

Take your time to complete the application and show us what tipe of box you are. And remember, be creative!

Apply!

We have also added some very useful information about the programme, check it out if you have any doubts and are still considering applying or not. More information about Leiden and the trainers will be added in the following days.

Don't stay without visiting it.

http://www.aegee-academy.org/es/presi-leiden

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Let's start!

Here we are,

Three short months before the next European School starts, all factors start to work forward together.

With a complete organization team bringing together AEGEE Academy and the Public Relations Working Group, and with the great support of AEGEE Leiden as local organizers, all the ingredients needed for cooking one of the top internal education courses inside AEGEE.

We hope you enjoy this blog in which regulary will be posted the latest news and updates in the preparatory progress of the next Public Relations European School 1, Leiden.
 

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