EUROAVIA at a glance

EUROAVIA is the European Association of Aerospace Students, founded in 1959 and present in 31 cities in 17 European countries, with a total of about 1200 members. It aims to:

• Stimulate contacts between university students and the aerospace industry;
• Offer opportunities of acquaintance and exchange among students from different countries, thereby actively pursuing European integration;
• Represent European aerospace students at an international level.

Being a non-political, non-profit association, EUROAVIA is managed exclusively by students with its various activities being entirely financed by membership fees. Particular projects are financed by sponsors and participation fees.

Structure

The International Board (IB) represents EUROAVIA on European level. The IB is nominated during the yearly EMEAC (Electoral Meeting of the EUROAVIA Congress), which is usually held in April or May. The nominees form the Designated International Board (DIB) preparing a Business and Financial Plan before they take over their predecessors' job at the AMEAC (Annual Meeting of the EUROAVIA Congress) in October.

Local Groups' students participate to form these two congresses. Besides the the International Board's election, the representatives discuss future international activities and receive reports from the established international Working Groups. And since the congresses are always organized by one of the 31 Local Groups, they are also an excellent opportunity to see more of Europe!

The I.B. coordinates the association's international activities mentioned on the section above. Such exceptional events not only serve as a meeting place for EUROAVIAns, but our participation often enables EUROAVIA to provide its members with discounted tickets for these exhibitions.

For specific long term projects, several (WGs) have been established; they have financial and decisional autonomy and report to the EUROAVIA Congress. Some of them are founded on a permanent basis:

• Central Archive Permanent Working Group. This is an archive of all decisions taken by the International Board or during the Congresses; one could call it the "long-term memory" of EUROAVIA;
• News Permanent Working Group, Newsletter Permanent Working Group. As described above, these WGs edit and publish EUROAVIA's publications;
• IT Permanent Working Group. This permanent working group is responsible for the International Homepage, the EUROAVIA newsgroups and email aliasses and other IT related subjects;
• DeCo/DeWo Working Group. The DeCo/DeWo WG organizes the biannually held Design Contest and the Design Workshop;
• EYE Working Group. This WG has started working on a job portal for Young Engineers (EYE in Aerospace). In the near future it will be possible to give companies the opportunity to reach qualified CV's of Young Engineers.

 

Activities

Each year various activities are organized throughout Europe:

• Local activities, for which the Local Groups are responsible, and which include: visits, workshops, lectures, parties and social events;
• International events coordinated by the International Board: fly-ins, Congress meetings, symposiums, the Design Contest / Design Workshop and also airshow presences (EUROAVIA participates in major aerospace exhibitions in Europe, being present at ILA, Berlin, Farnborough and Le Bourget, Paris).

Publications

EUROAVIA News is the official organ of communication, quarterly published and entirely composed and published by students. An internal publication, the Newsletter, is distributed monthly and provides the Local Groups with activity reports of the IB and other LGs, with announcements of forthcoming events.