Every AEGEE Agora, PM, EBM and EPM in one list

Here it is – the definite list of each and every AEGEE Agora, Presidents’ Meeting, Planning Meeting, European Boards’ Meeting and European Planning Meeting.

The statutory events are the most popular activities in the network. In average between 700 and 900 people apply for an Agora. No wonder, since you can consider an AEGEE Agora something like a true European parliament – with delegates and visitors from more than 30 countries. Until 1990 they were actually usually quite small with not more than 100-200 participants. Only in 1991 they started to become bigger and bigger.The biggest one ever took place in Maastricht in 1998 and hosted 1150 participants. Never before nor after reached an AEGEE Agora the threshold of 1000 participants.

While the AEGEE parliament convenes twice per year, in spring and autumn, the smaller brother of the Agora takes place only in spring: the European Planning Meeting (EPM). The purpose of this event is mainly to gather ideas for AEGEE’s yearplan, the Action Agenda. At the same time it is also a thematic conference about a hot issue. By the way, the EPM did not always have this name. Originally it was known as Presidents’s Conference, then it was called Presidents’ Meeting, Planning Meeting (PM) and European Boards’ Meeting (EBM), before it adopted today’s name in 2015.

More focus on thematic planning

However, not only the name changed, but also structure and content. Originally, the Presidents’ Meeting was like a small Agora. This was on one hand very practical, because it prepared the participants well for the upcoming Agora. However, since AEGEE wanted to give more space to thematic discussions, AEGEE-Europe changed the concept – again and again. And it deleted the autumn PM in this process. Until the event finally became what it is today.

You can find photos of most of the events in the table in the mentioned Facebook albums. Enjoy!