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ESN summer party cancelled
We are terribly sorry to announce that the ESN summer party, which was planed to take place tomorrow, is cancelled!
As you might have probably noticed the sun decided to skip Graz this week and therefore we can't take the risk and have a summer party with rain. Again, we are very sorry for the bad news and hope to see you soon at the next ESN events.
Happy Birthday Europe, Happy Birthday Erasmus
On the 9th May, we celebrate the Europe Day, the anniversary, when Robert Schuman presented a new form of cooperation between the European states. Denmark, as the current president of this cooperation, today’s EU, therefore invited the National Agencies and the Erasmus ambassadors to Copenhagen to celebrate this anniversary together.
You don't get the newsletter any more?
You don't get our weekly newsletter any more since the Easter break? Well, here is the short explanations: Your provider will be blocking our emails. That means at the moment you can not receive our emails (especially if you are an hotmail user!). What we do about it? Nothing. What can you do about it? Nothing except that you could tell us an alternative email adress where you'd like to receive the newsletter.
The next Eduk8 Training in Slovakia
Are you open-minded, willing to learn and share, and ready to influence, motivate, and inspire? Eduk8 is the place to be!
Open Call: Director ESN AISBL
Erasmus Student Network AISBL (ESN) is an international umbrella organisation supporting and offering services to international students and in particular exchange students (Erasmus students) during their time abroad and representing them towards the institutional stakeholders. Its headquarters are based in Brussels, where the Board and the secretariat work together in an office located in the center of Brussels. ESN covers 36 countries and based in around 400 Higher Education Institutions.
Photo Contest - Calendar
ESN is looking for the best photos that will be included in the design of the new
25th Anniversary Erasmus Portrait
For our third edition of the 25th Anniversary portraits we delved deep into the history of both the Erasmus programme and ESN, and thus had the pleasure to interview Désirée Majoor. Désirée was one of the first ever Erasmus students who went abroad in 1987, but she was also the first ever President of ESN. Thus, in this interview we had a chance to understand both how the exchange experience influenced Désirée and also how ESN was built up from the discussions of a few former Erasmus students in the late 1980s.
Joint input for the "Erasmus for all" proposal 2014-2020
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) and
European University Foundation - Campus Europae (EUF-CE)
input and concern regarding the proposal “ERASMUS for all” 2014 – 2020
Gadget Design Competition
Are you creative? Do you already design things for ESN or would like to? Do you want to be part of something cool? You might be the person cut out for this challenge!
Now you have the chance bring your ideas to life for the new ESN gadgets! The gadgets will be available from the summer onwards and will be distributed to ESN sections all across Europe!
We are looking for designs for the following:
Open call: Committee Chairs
The call for the committee chairing teams for 2012-2013 are hereby open. Each chairing team will be elected internally by the respective committees and approved by the CNR Reykjavik, Iceland in May 2012. The deadline for the applications is 4th May 2012 23:59 CET.
Please note that the open call for the NEC chairing team was sent out already before and the deadline is the 20th April 2012 as all chairing team positions are currently vacant.
The committees work within the field of each of the Board Members and are as follows:
International Board Diary March
If the International Board had to say what was the busiest month of the year, it would be a challenge, but March would win (so far) as we had the pleasure of preparing and attending the Annual General Meeting in Granada. But to say that was only the important activity of the month would ignore all the other exciting events and developments that occurred, which we will tell you about here.
Young Policy Makers, a workshop
The Erasmus Student Network was invited to Brussels to take part in a Workshop called ''Young Policy Makers'' organised by the European Commission to brainstorm and discuss which will be the main challenges in 2040-2050 that policy makers can start addressing today.
ESN celebrates the 25th Anniversary at AGM Granada 2012!
From the 22nd-26th March, the biggest event in the calendar of ESN took place in Granada, Spain.
ESN Ireland celebrates the 25th anniversary of Erasmus
On a windy but sunny April afternoon in Ireland, the Lord Mayor of Dublin hosted Erasmus Student Network Ireland at his humble abode in the Mansion House. The event celebrates the success and the 25th Anniversary of the Erasmus programme, the world’s largest student exchange programme in which over two million students have participated since it’s inauguration in 1987.
Open call: Video production team for SocialErasmus (Short deadline)
Open Call for Video Crew
****Application deadline 13th of April 2012****
We are looking for a two person video crew, to plan, record and edit a professional high quality promotional video for SocialErasmus. The crew will travel together with the international coordinator to three countries to attend SocialErasmus activities during SocialErasmus week 4th to 11th of May 2012 where they collect footage for the video.
TU Fest 30.3
Don't miss the legendary TU Fest this Friday, 30th of March. This time back on the campus at Inffeldgasse 25D. Of course with very student friendly prices at the bars (Beer bar, 2 Mixed drinks bars) :-)
Ground floor: Party & Charts
Basement: Electro, Breaks, Minimal, D'n'B
Location: Inffeldgasse 25D
Time: 20:00 doors open (the party ends at 2:00 due to regulations, don't come to late)
Sport climbing course - interested? Do the survey now
Did you hear of our first ESN sport climbing course in the winter semester? Yes or no doesn't matter - if you are interested in doing sports climbing this semester you will have the chance to do so with ESN. We will try to organise again one or maybe more sport climbing courses in the summer semester. As it is easier for us to plan if we know more about your whishes please fill out the survey now.
Massive problems by TU-Graz e-mail system - ESN not affected
ATENTION: From Friday night 9th of March 2012 till at least Monday morning 12th of March there had been massive problems at the TU-Graz e-mail server.
Be aware that at least a few e-mails were lost during that timeframe and there still can be problems like delayed emails! As we are running on our ESN emails on a different server we have not been affected but might receive emails with a delay due to system load.
International Board Diary February
January was the month of grants and report writing, but February would most probably be characterized by work and preparations for the upcoming AGM in Granada and also National Platforms. There were many things going on in the ESN office and across the network which the board was involved in, and we hope to enlighten you here.
Quo vadis Erasmus?
