Changing Horizons in Geography Education - HERODOT Network ...

to entities with only one active individual, other entities are part of the local studentorganisation and some exist out of a small group of friends.The main event of the EGEA foundation is the Annual Congress, usually takingplace for six of seven days in September or October. The congress exists of workshops,excursions, presentations, parties and meetings. Since 1990 there was, besidesthe Annual Congress, every year a Western Regional Congresses organised. From1997 also the other regions organised a regional congresses. Regional Congressesare smaller and one or two days shorter than the Annual Congress.The other main activity organised in the network are the exchanges. Two entitiesvisit each other for a week or a weekend. The host entity takes care of the program,food and accommodation. Other activities organised are the New Year Party, nationalweekends, and seminars. Some entities organise introduction and other activities forthe foreign exchange (Erasmus) students at their Universities.Today an important feature of the organisation is the website. On the extensiveforum members stay or get in contact with each other, activities are announced andEuropean issues are discussed.The Annual CongressesThe general picture shows great dynamism in which entities visited the congresses.From 1995 till 1997 the total number of participants is relatively low (Figure 1). Itdoes not necessarily have to mean that EGEA was smaller at that time. There couldhave been a maximum to the accommodation. But except for the last Annual Congresswhere over 300 people subscribed and where only 206 could be invited, we did notfind evidence that people had to be rejected on a large scale in the past.Figure 1. Number of participants at Annual CongressesThe EGEA entities from Amsterdam and Warsaw attended all 15 congresses(Figure 2) The data from the third Annual Congress in Rackeve, Hungary are missingand the data from Prague 1990 are a bit unclear. At the first congress we alreadyhad participants from 22 different universities. Figure 2 does not include the totalnumber of participants from an entity present at a congress.197