REMINDER

Membership Fees 2009
There are still some sections that have not paid their membership fee yet for 2009. Please do it as soon as possible. In case your section needs a special invoice, contact directly the treasurer at treasurer@esn.org.

Topic of the month

ESN welcomes Cyprus

At the Council of National Representatives (CNR) that was held in Warsaw from 11th-14th of February 2010, ESN ESA from Cyprus was approved as a full member of ESN network. Since this moment ESN will be represented in 33 countries.

ESN ESA is a section with its headquarters in Nicosia, it covers several universities with the events, activities and trips that are organised. We want to congratulate ESN ESA with their membership, and want to wish them all the best for the future.

New Helpcenter

In the beginning of February, the IT committee launched the brand new Helpcenter! This system is specially designed to help the sections and members of ESN with the usage of the Satellite website template.

At the website you can find tutorials, video-tutorials, a forum, but of course there is also the opportunity to ask your question to the IT committee... Are you using Satellite, but you would like to explore the abilities of the system? Then take a quick look at the Helpcenter.

Do you want to write tutorials, or make video tutorials for other ESN-ers? Then please contact the IT committee via the website! http://helpcenter.esn.org

Get involved / ESN in Brussels

ESN STARS awards 2010

The Stars of ESN Competition 2010 is now open. Your sections can apply to seven awards which are as follows:

Starlight (the most active section at the international level)

LogoSTAR (the best adaptation of Corporate Identity)

WebSTAR (the best ESN website)

STARter (the best newcomer section)

STAR Worse (the best trash picture)

MovieSTAR (the best section promoting video)

STARland (the best development of the country within ESN)

For more information visit the website or contact the coordinator at stars@esn.org.

Section in the spotlight

The project has started – it is time to show off your striking section with its members and unique activities!

Section in the Spotlight is a project of ESN International, which give a section every month the opportunity to stand in the spotlight of the whole network. Publicity and nice prizes are assured.

To find out how to take part of this project and to find additional information, visit please the homepage.

YOUth for you

Picture Europe

The European Commission has launched the competition in the production of a video clip of maximum 3 minutes presenting an original vision of Europe.

Applicants should convey a positive vision of Europe with an artistic, documentary, humoristic or fictional angle, picturing personal or public situations, current or historical, of European life in their immediate environment: family, enterprise, community, association, city, village; local events – music, fashion, leisure, games that could represent an original vision of Europe. The deadline for entries is 15th March 2010. More information available on the official website.

Europe besides ESN

Berlin film festival: 60 years of masterpieces

From 11.-21. February 2010 Berlin hosted the 60th International Filmfestival Berlinale. It didn’t take long for the Berlinale to become an arena for ideological debate. It was English filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock who, in 1951, inaugurated the first festival and so firmly anchored it in western European and American cinema tradition. When Willy Brandt, the mayor of Berlin at the time, gave the opening speech of the festival in 1958, he underlined its importance as a symbol of a tolerant city, open to the world, in opposition to the communist behemoth. Several days later Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the soviet union, presented an ultimatum to the allies to leave west Berlin. It wasn’t until the 1960s, when the festival was privatised (until then, it was in the hands of the west German government), that it was opened up to Europe and the east, but still not without some tensions.