Section Partnership

Being a network means also strong cooperation between the sections. Indeed, many ESN sections actively collaborate in various projects e.g. trips, workshops, trainings, and other projects.

Some of the sections that collaborate on a regular basis can create a section partnership.

The aims of the section partnership are among others to:

• exchange knowledge between the members
• learn practical experiences from each other
• organise common events
• invite each other to local activities
• support each other
• meet new friends

Section cooperation support

There are many types of cooperation between the sections inside the Network (Sections in Big Cities, Sister Cities, Cross-Border Cooperation, ”one event” oriented partnerships, Section Meetings). To promote, support and improve partnerships between the sections the SeCS project was created. Project is divided into three parts:

• Promoting Cooperation in eXpress - if you have an interesting partnership with another section and you want the network to know about it, write article about it and send it to section-cooperation@esn.org
• Cooperation Guide - Writing the guidelines about section cooperation should be finished very soon.
• Cooperation map and Search engine - preparing the functional design for a new IT tool.

Existing ESN sections' partnerships are

1. Sections from Prague, Dresden, and Krakow (ESN VSE Prague - Buddy System, ISC CTU in Prague, ESN TU Dresden, ESN HTW Dresden - Faranto, and ESN UJ Krakow)
2. Sections from Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Olomouc, and Vienna (ESN EUBA Bratislava, ISC MU Brno, ISC MZLU, ISC VUT, ESN Budapest ELTE, ESN UP Olomouc, ESN TU Wien, ESN WU Wien)
3. ISN Amsterdam and ESN Gent
4. ESN Athens AUEB - ESN UC3M
5. ESN TWENTE - ESN UC3M
6. ESN Besançon - ESN Lausanne
7. ESN UMB - ESN Akdeniz
8. AEP-ESN Padova - ESN Nancy
9. ESN Maribor - AEP-ESN Padova
10. ESN Athens AUEB and STEP ESN Pavia
11. ESN Pavia – ESN KAPA Athens
12. ESN Trieste – ESN Primorska
13. ESN Buddy System HK (Hradec Kralove) – ESN Liberec
14. ESN Örebro – ESN VMU (Vilnius)
15. ESN Vigo with ESN Oviedo, ESN Santiago, ESN Porto
16. ESN-METKA (Helsinki) with ESN Tallin, ESN Tartu and ESN Riga
17. ESN Stockholm KTH – ESN Gdansk
18. ISC MU Brno - ESN Utrecht
19. ESN DTU - Copenhagen
20. ESN Pavia - Milano sections 
21. ESN Pisa - ESN Maleventum
22. ESN Barcelona (4 sections)
23. ESN Turku - Åbo (IAC, UniTurku, ÅA - 3 sections working together)
24. ESN Tampere (INTO and FINT - 2 sections working together)
25. Krakow United (UJ, AGH, PK, UEk - 4 sections working together)
26. Warsaw United (10 sections)
27. Poznan United (3 sections working together)
28. ESN Tallin (5 sections)
29. Helsinki Cooperation (4 sections)
30. Milano Unita (4)
31. Rotterdam (2 sections)
32. ESN Ostrava - (2 sections)
33. ESN UC3M - ESN Trieste
34. ESN Huelva - ESN Macerata
35. ESN Huelva - ESN Wraclaw

The sections of ESN recognise more and more the importance of cooperation and are meeting on a regular basis at Section Meetings. These are informal meetings to strengthen the collaboration and learn from each other’s practical experiences.