The idea of AEGEE succeeded to attract many students who started to create EGEE locals in their own cities. Starting in Paris, we were soon present also in München, Milano, Leiden, London and Madrid. In 1988, we were already established in 40 university cities. Within this time, also our structure, com-posed by AGORA, Presidents' Meeting, Comité Directeur and Working Groups was created.

AEGEE showed big projects to the outside world: Euromanagers, Europolice, Moot Court, Euro Stage, and Summer Universities. Unfortunately, only Moot Court (European law competition) and Summer Universities still remain part of our activities. The others are mainly working independently.

EGEE always gave good inspirations. The first three years were successful, many enthusiastic people were attracted to establish a really new thing in the students' world, a multi-disciplinary student association focusing on our Europe, organized in the future perspective, eliminating the national level. However, after three years of presidency of Frank Biancheri (the founder of EGEE), a period of stagnation came, as his successors could not add anything new to the existing idea or transfer the goal of AEGEE. The internal trouble started after the short presidency of Vieri Bracco from Milano, who vanished to Brasil two months after his election. In 1988, the French locals died and could never re-establish in their old strength again. Europe changed, the Iron Curtain was disappearing, and new perspectives were opened. But the Comité Directeur somehow could not or was not willing to realize this development. The East-West Working Group started their aid to establish AEGEE locals in Central and Eastern Europe (against the policy of the Comité Directeur).

Furthermore, the structure of AEGEE was not very democratic. As EGEE was founded, we had a CD (Comité Directeur) of 20 full members and 10 suppléants - few of those were actually working and they were elected as a list similar to so-called "democratic" elections in the former Eastern Europe. Many AEGEE locals demanded a democratic change. They wanted to have a better communication within the network and wanted to reduce the discrepancy between the locals and CD.

All these reasons helped to establish the "Quo Vadis" opposition list under Georg von der Gablentz (the first and the only successful opposition list) which was elected at the AGORA in Bonn (November 1990). So a new CD was established with no personal links of influences to the old ones. Its idea is reflected in the motto "Students are building bridges across Europe".

AEGEE-Europe then supported the development in Central and Eastern Europe, especially by transferring major events to Eastern Europe like the AGORA's in Budapest (November 1991) and Praha (April 1993) and the Presidents' Meeting in Kraków (March 1992). At the same time, AEGEE took many efforts to be present in the EFTA countries. This way it really became an association covering the whole of Europe. The expansion of the network also implied a more democratic approach to the outside. At the AGORA in Amsterdam (April 1991) the election system was changed - one of the goals of the Quo Vadis list. Since that time, the CD members are elected separately and are individually responsible for their moral reports.

This process of big changes continued under the presidency of Jeroen Hoogerwerf, when stress was put especially on improving the communication between the CD and the locals (a regular CD Newsletter was established) and a co-ordination of AEGEE activities (especially the introduction of the Yearplan was another very important step).

During the summer of 1993 at the European School in Valladolid an attempt was made to revive the idealistic AEGEE, with the motto "Mobility with a purpose". The idea was to include all basic ideas of AEGEE into a common goal that everybody could work together for. Unfortunately this happened in a period where the President and Treasurer failed in their task, leaving some disturbance and chaos behind them. Therefore all forces in this period and during the following presidency of Zsuzsa Kigyós were used to rebuild what has been broken down. One year later, during the presidency of Dorian Selz, at yet another European School this time in Rennes, the thoughts were again gathered to set the future for AEGEE. This time the 10th anniversary of AEGEE in 1995, was planned. Since then more work has been put into securing a stable future for our association. This time, the tool is the Long Term Program (LTP)

With the LTP the future plans will be put into a frame that ensures their creation and their implementation

Furhermore information find in AEGEE-Europe website.