Rin Comfort Hotel, Bucharest Romania

Hello fellows,
A little bit late with this posting but Christmas is so thoughts consuming (food as well) that i couldn't do it earlier.
So, my 6-day amazing experience in Rin Comfort Hotel in (almost)Bucharest, Romania. (Slightly outside the city 5 mins away from the airport and you can literally planes landing :) ).
The reason for the posting is my attendance at Advanced Training for Capacity Building of NGOs from Bulgaria in Romania. More information about the organziers: www.cso-bgro.net. There were exactly 25 NGOs per country.
The training was comprised of 4 modules: Project Management, Fundraising, PR & Communication and Advocacy & Lobbying.
Each one of them was led by experienced practician in the sphere.
First two days were about practical excercises in two of the mentioned above topics chosen by each delegate. I was privileged to attend the Fundraising modul where i got a lot of useful information for the Structural Funds of EU that will affect Bulgaria in the mid of 2007. There are a lot of operational programs AIESEC as an organization can apply for - HR Development,Transborder Cooperation and so on.
There are also changes in other programs such as Youth, Life Long Learning.
Basically a lot of opportunities for AIESEC however starting from September 2007.
Second module I attended was PR & Communication where we were practicing our public speaking:) Well in AIESEC we do it a lot but i was eager to see myself afterwards on a movie.
Next 2 days were dedicated to key-note speeches by real professionalist and successful people in the spheres.
I was impressed by a middle-age lady that was presenting us her success in corporate fundrasing. She managed to raise 200,000 $ for her NGO in Romania,and belive me it was not just because of her brilliant accent. She was confident, she was experienced, she was actually quite rich and famous - she was Ethan Hawke's mother:).
If any of you is interesting in getting to know more about my experience or shareing in some of the topics, please contact me.
Here are some pictures from Bucharest:).

AIESEC TU opens new office in the University of Architecture

AIESEC in Technical University managed to secure a brand new office in the University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy in Sofia. The office will be shared with the Career Consultancy Center.
The Opening Ceremony took place on Monday 27th of November at 12.30 in the Administration Building (Rectorat) of the University at 1, Hristo Smirnenski Bld.

The Speakers of the Day Were
Penio D. Penev, Rector of The University of Architecture , Civil Engineering and Geodesy
Svetlozar Petrov, Managing Director of Job Tiger
Michael T. Fritz, Mission Director of USAID Bulgaria
Emil M.Ivanov, President of AIESEC in Bulgaria

This was definetely a well organized and planned opening ceremony.
Our Hearty Congratulations and Best Wishes to Technical University,
Hope you have a great deal of sucess and growth from the new office !