A pan-European student association,
locally rooted in Toulouse.
40,000 students across 200 European cities. One Toulouse antenna, founded in 1985. Forty years of welcoming international students to the Pink City.
Forty years of welcoming international students to Toulouse.
AEGEE Toulouse was founded in 1985 by a small group of students who wanted Toulouse to feel less like a stop on a year abroad and more like a home. The mission hasn't changed in four decades.
- 1985
Founded in Toulouse
AEGEE Toulouse opens its doors as one of the first French antennae of AEGEE-Europe — a network barely a year old at the time.
- 1998
First Welcome Month
A handful of board members invent what later becomes a flagship integration program. A hundred students show up the first year.
- 2007
Partnership with Campus France
The association is recognised as an official welcome partner for international students arriving in Toulouse.
- 2019
StudyBuddy launches
An academic mentoring program is added, pairing incoming students with locals from the same field.
- 2024
Erasmus Jobs program
A job-search service for outgoing Erasmus students opens, with CV reviews and partner-company referrals.
- 2025
40 years, still student-run
Forty years on, AEGEE Toulouse is entirely volunteer-led. 300+ active members. 25+ events a month.
One membership card.
200 European cities.
AEGEE-Europe links 40,000 students from Lisbon to Tbilisi. Join in Toulouse and you're a member everywhere — tapas in Barcelona, Christmas markets in Berlin, Summer University in 60+ destinations.
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- 40,000 members in Europe
- 200 European
cities - 25+ events per month
- 1985 founded in Toulouse
Local action. Continental impact.
Behind the European numbers there's one local chapter doing the work — a board of ten volunteers, a hundred and fifty active organisers, and a calendar that fills itself.
The Toulouse chapter has around 300 active members in any given semester, drawn from every campus in the city — UT Capitole, Toulouse INP, TBS, TSM, the IEP, the engineering schools and the science faculty. About two thirds are international students arriving for a semester or a year; the rest are locals who run the events.
Beyond the events you see on the calendar, the antenna runs three structured programs: Welcome Months, StudyBuddy and Erasmus Jobs. You can read about all three on the Projects page.
The volunteers who keep the lights on.
A new board is elected every year. These are the people running AEGEE Toulouse in 2025–2026 — most of them international students themselves a year or two ago.
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Camille Dufresne
PresidentStrategy, board coordination, institutional relations
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Mateo Rossi
Vice-PresidentOperations, weekly board meetings, EU mobility liaison
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Aïcha Benali
Vice-PresidentExternal affairs, partners, communications strategy
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Tomáš Horáček
TreasurerBudget, accounting, Billetweb settlement
AEGEE Toulouse is run by students, not by staff.
Every June, we open applications for the next board and for event-lead roles in each of the six categories. You don't need experience — most of us didn't either. You need a few hours a week and the willingness to keep showing up.