ESN International News

ESN Cards Production Services for 2013-2014

Every year ESN provides around 100.000 membership cards for incoming and outgoing international students to all ESN network across 36 European countries and in more than 420 European cities. We are launching a call for proposals for the production of these cards for the first semester of the academic year 2013-2014.

Conditions

The conditions of the call are the following:

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Erasmus Impact Study Officially launched - Alumni and Student Surveys are online

Erasmus Impact Study officially launched - Fill in NOW the Alumni & Student Survey

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Free Student Guidebooks for your section, university, NA. Order till June 20th!

After the success of our student guidebooks we have decided to open a new order!

This guidebook is the result of our project PRIME (Problems of Recognition In Making Erasmus) and targets incoming and outgoing exchange students. This brief and comprehensive guide shows the recognition process step-by-step and explains the rights and obligations of exchange students.

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In Collaboration with Google & Think Young

Google and ThinkYoung, together with the European Institute of Industrial Leadership are happy to present to you the next step in becoming a future Entrepreneur.

We are offering young individuals from across Europe the opportunity to hone their entrepreneurial knowledge and principles, acquire a variety of new skills and network with both successful entrepreneurs and other like minded, motivated people. Besides, participants will have an exclusive opportunity to present their business ideas to investors.

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Europe Day - EU Open Doors

Europe’s open day is a time to reflect on the EU’s achievements – and look at how to make it work better for everyone. Join in the debates, events and activities for all ages on the 4th of May all over Europe.

Let's take the time to remember the past and value the present. On 9 May 1950, Robert Schuman, France’s foreign minister, sparked the creation of what is now know as the European Union by calling on France, Germany and other European countries to pool their production of coal and steel.

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Luxemburg is now the 36th country of ESN!

We would like to welcome ESN Luxemburg!

ESN Luxemburg joined the network in the latest Pre-AGM CNR meeting on the 8th of April by the National Represantives of the rest of the network. They have been doing an impressive work as a section candidate and the network has awarded their efforts giving them the full membership. Now all the Erasmus and exchange students in Luxemburg will have a local section to help them during their stay. The University of Luxemburg has been supporting them during all this time; thanks for believeing in ESN!

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The Annual General Meeting of ESN in Maribor for 2013 is over

Now that everybody is back home...

AGM Maribor 2013 will be remember for a long time. ESN Maribor pulled off a well organised and fun AGM. All the sections delegates could feel Slovenia finally. Big thanks to the organization that made all this possible, all the network is in debt with you ESN Maribor.

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Commissioner Vassiliou addresses ESN at Annual General Meeting 2013

Commissioner Vassiliou addresses ESN at AGM 2013 at Maribor, Slovenia.

Open Call for International Research Team for PRIME Project 2014

Open Call International Research Team for PRIME project

PRIME, Problems of Recognition In Making Erasmus is one of ESN’s most successful research projects. It was supported by the European Commission with an Erasmus Accompanying Measures grant within the Lifelong Learning Programme for the 2009 and 2010 editions. It is a complex qualitative and quantitative study which aims at pointing out existing obstacles to student mobility and provides suggestions for improvements to facilitate student exchange in Europe.

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ESN is proud to be accepted as a full member of the European Movement International.

ESN is proud to be accepted as a full member of the European Movement International. The European Movement is an international organisation open to all political, economic, social and cultural trends in civil society. Its objective is to "contribute to the establishment of a united, federal Europe founded on the principles of peace, democracy, liberty, solidarity, and respect for basic human rights. It seeks to provide a structure to encourage and facilitate the active participation of citizens and civil society organisations in the development of a united Europe".

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Deadline extended to apply to Alumni Award 2013.

You're a section, a National Board, a Committee, a bunch of ESNers that want to organise a quality training event, within the scope of another event, or independently?

Apply for the Alumni Award - that will this year take the form of a grant! We canno't guarantee the exact amount we will reach, as it depends on the Alumni's donations, but we hope to reach 300-400 euros, as last year. We already have collected 100!!

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ESN consortium partner of the biggest European study on the impact of the Erasmus programmes

ESN, together with CHE Consult (DE), Brussels Education Services (BE) and the Compostela Group of Universities (ES), will carry out an impact study on the Erasmus programmes launched by the European Commission in 2012. The consortium led by CHE Consult will conduct a comprehensive study investigating on the impact of the Erasmus programme on students, staff, institutions and business. It is for the first time that ESN AISBL is part of a consortium that won a bid for a public EU tender.

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"Erasmus for All" vs "YES Europe"

The Erasmus Student Network conducted a short survey on the preferences of its students and members concerning the name of the new EU programme on Education, Training, Youth and Sport. The original proposal of the European Commission stipulates “Erasmus for All” as the name for the follow-up of the Lifelong Learning Programme. The European Parliament favours “YES Europe” as the name for the new programme envisaged to start in 2014.

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Open Call Web Project Internship

Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is one of the biggest interdisciplinary student associations in Europe. It was founded on the 16th October 1989 and its aim is to support and develop student mobility. Every year, ESN maintains and developed several IT tools such as ESNGalaxy, ESNSatellite, ESN.org etc.

ESN offers an IT Internship position for students in higher education to work on the web
projects of ESN.

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The European Foundation garagErasmus has kicked off an initiative to refund 50 Italian Erasmus Students with a 100 € voucher for the travel in occasion of Elections in Italy

For all Italian Erasmus Students.

The European Foundation garagErasmus has kicked off an initiative to refund 50 Italian Erasmus Students with a 100 € voucher for the travel in occasion of Elections in Italy, because the Italian law doesn't allow the vote abroad for Erasmus students.

If you are an Italian Erasmus Student and you want to come back in Italy to vote, you can apply until next Sunday, 10th February.

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