ESN International News

ESN will be present together with the European Disability Forum (EDF) at the Open Doors organized by the European Youth Forum (YFJ). For the occasion, the event is combined with the YO! Fest: Turn up Your Rights!

Come and find the STAR! You can receive information about our organization, the projects and promotional material!

We are opening a call for two new Social Erasmus coordinators:
- One will be responsible for the project management
- One will be responsible for the communication around the project
 
What are their tasks?
- Managing and updating the website (not launched yet)
- Being in contact with the National Coordinators (answering questions from local or national level)
- Reporting to the responsible Board member the status of the project

With the following call, ESN is looking for 3 skilled people to be part of the YFJ Liaison Office of ESN. The duration of the position is 2 years, starting from December 2010, to be reconfirmed  after the first year.
If you are interested, send your CV and Motivation Letter to secretariat@esn.org. The deadline to send the application is 27th August 2010 at midnight CET, any late applications will not be considered. The selected applicants will be informed via email.

People around always ask: 'why to study abroad?'. This is why in this edition we would like to explore what are the benefits of having done an academic exchange. Additionally, we would like to learn about economical situation of exchange students while studying abroad as well as their opinion about quality of studies at home and host university.

On the 15th of July 2010, the Erasmus Student Network’s new International Board takes office in Brussels. Their objectives? Professionalize one of the biggest European network of student associations, continue to launch and develop its international projects and promote ESN as a key organisation and a decisive factor in International Higher Education issues.

On 21st June 2010 ESN International and Pernod Ricard officially signed the European partnership agreement to develop the Responsible Party Program. The initiative includes a complete toolkit to help students organize parties in a responsible way. During the trial period ESN Lausanne and ESN Gent organized parties in their cities. You can find their stories and photos from the events on the official Responsible Party website. Is your section organizing a big event or party? Would you like to be part of the initiative?

During the last week esn.org was offline due to a crash of the server. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Throughout the time when the server was down we were not receiving our e-mails. Therefore, we kindly ask you to resend your email if you have not received any reply from our side. Thank you for understanding.

 Madrid, the Spanish capital, is the hometown of the new Section in the Spotlight in June 2010 – ESN UAM. 

European Campus is a project by ESN, UNICA and Youth Agora, which offers an overview of Master programmes in Europe in a new and innovative style. Are you considering to study a Master? Then check the European Campus website. 

Thanks to the partnership with Generation 112 ESN international was given to opportunity to have regularly (on a bimonthly basis) its own radio emission directly from the European Commission.

ESN International is working on publishing an ESN History Book.  The History Book will be composed of two parts, one about the general ESN History seen year by year and one about the history of all the countries within ESN, taken country by country.