What is a SU?
The Summer University is a one to two weeks long event that takes place in
summer in cities where AEGEE is present. Understanding and exploring the
multicultural dimension of the European continent, removing national borders,
engaging for tolerance and creating open-minded citizens are only some of the
reasons why every year around 2000 European students come together in groups of
20 to 50 persons to travel and explore a part of Europe they didn’t know yet.
The Summer
University Project was born in 1988 with the intention to promote the idea of a
unified Europe. This project is the main tool of AEGEE to attain this difficult
but fascinating goal. Since then, it is continuing every year with the
participation of more than 120 antennae.
The activities carried out during a Summer University range from academic, such
as classes to learn a foreign language, different courses on technical themes
to multicultural activities like getting familiar with Finnish culture, Spanish
history or Greek mythology; learning how to sail, attending a photography
course in Turkey or hiking in Polish woods. Moreover, most of the Summer
Universities follow a concrete theme throughout its duration that can be
related to European Integration, International Politics, Active Citizenship,
Education, Peace, Personal Development and many more.
In a Summer University you will be given the chance to taste different food, to listen and dance to different music and start to love it; to be good friends with people from different countries and travel with them. You will learn to say "hi" in another 20 languages, you will feel free, you will love, you will experience, you will learn new things, you will do things you hadn't imagined…
You will feel the AEGEE spirit, you will feel
what is a SU!
