REMINDER
Section in the Spotlight!
It is time to show off your striking section with its members and unique activities! Apply for section in the spotlight
Section Questionnaire 2010!
Hurry up, the deadline is on the 31st of December! Login and fill it in on the Galaxy!
Topic of the month
National Board Meeting, Helsinki
From 3rd to 6th February the Spring NBM 2011 will be held in Helsinki. The aim of the NBM is to discuss about issues that concern the national level of ESN. Various ESN National Board Members from all over Europe will gather in Helsinki to find common solutions and exchange best practices. For more information, you can contact the OC (nbm-helsinki@esnfinland.eu). The registration and the website will be soon online... stay tuned!
Get involved in ESN
Section Gift Exchange
The Holiday period is upon us! For this very special time of the year our wonderful Network&Events Committee has come up with a very nice initiative! We would like to invite you to participate in a unique ESN Activity - the Section Gift Exchange!
Tradition of exchanging gifts is known to many of you, you've probably participated in it many times already. This year, you can show your pallomeri spirit in the holiday time by exchanging gifts with another section in the network.
Do you want more information? check the news on esn.org ...hurry up, the deadline is December, 16th!
Section Questionnaire 2010 is launched!
Each year, ESN sections must provide ESN International with information about their activities, operating processes, etc. The new questionnaire is available on Galaxy, you can find guidelines about how to fill out the questionnaire in the ESN Helpcenter
The deadline for filling out the questionnaire is the 31st December 2010.
European Campus Survey
Do you want to win an iPod? Then fill in the survey concerning your opinion on the appearance and functionality of the new European Campus platform (www.europeancampus.eu) and the master template. Please consider that the platform development is still ongoing, we are working every day to increase the amount and the quality of the information available. We would be very grateful if you could take 3 minutes of your time to answer some questions. Your opinion will be highly valued! Please find the questionnaire on the survey page of European Campus.
YOUth for you
European Citizenship Training Courses 2011
Since 2001, the EU-CoE youth partnership has developed and implemented training modules on European Citizenship.
Since 2006, the courses - hosted and co-financed by the National Agencies for the YOUTH IN ACTION Programme - are developed and implemented as a cooperation project between the Partnership and the SALTO Training and Co-operation Resource Centre.
Check out the European Citizenship Training Courses (ECTCs) offered in 2011 and send your application!
"Volunteer! Make a Difference"
The Youth in Action programme helps young people to get involved in unpaid voluntary work through the European Voluntary Service, which will celebrate its 15th anniversary in 2011; since 1996 approximately 50.000 young European volunteers have travelled outside their home countries to help, gain knowledge, exercise skills and extend their social networks, which can often lead to new or better job prospects, as well as personal and social development.
Throughout the Year of Volunteering, hundreds of activities and projects, among them the European Voluntary Service projects, will be highlighted and promoted inter alia during the 2011 European Year of Volunteering Tour visiting all 27 capitals of the European Union.
Find out more on the website of YoV!
Europe besides ESN
Croatia to join EU Lifelong Learning Programme in January
Croatia will participate fully in the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme and Youth in Action Programme from January 2011. Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, and Radovan Fuchs, Croatia's Minister of Science, Education and Sports, signed a 'memorandum of understanding' at an informal meeting of European education Ministers in Bruges, Belgium, on Tuesday.
The Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) includes Erasmus, which provides grants to higher education students to study or train abroad, Leonardo da Vinci, which is aimed at vocational education mobility, Comenius for school exchanges and Grundtvig for adult education. The funding is targeted at individual students and learners, as well as teachers, trainers and others involved in education and training.
Switzerland will also join the two EU programmes in January, bringing the total number of partner countries to 33 (27 Member States, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and Liechtenstein currently participate).
- PRIME 2010 is online!
An official site of PRIME project is launched! Visit www.prime.esn.org to see new logo, get more info about the project, download last years' report and follow all the news and upcoming events. From January 2011 you will find there questionnaires for students and universities to fill online. You can also become a fan of PRIME Facebook page! - Membership fee: reminder
For all the sections, which joined before 31st October 2009 the membership fee is 60 euro, for all the sections which joined between 1st November 2009 and 31st October 2010 the membership fee is 30 euro and the sections having joined after the 1st November 2010 the membership will have to be paid from next year on. You can find the bank details here - European Seminar: Young People and Mobility, a Luxury?
From 10th to 12th December 2010 Lea Benirschke, Liaison Officer to the European Youth Forum (YFJ), participated on behalf of ESN in the workshop "Youth mobilities: networking of public services and structures" organized by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Youth in Namur (Belgium). At the workshop, best practices and new ways of enhancing cooperation between institutions, youth NGOs and young people were shared amongst representatives of all groups involved. - Home & Away Forum, Berlin
On the 1st December 2010 Katja Krohn, National Representative of Germany, participated to "Home & Away Forum", a pre-conference event of Online EDUCA in Berlin. During the conference Katja had the occasion to present the student's perspective on virtual mobility. During a panel discussion ESN presented it's view that virtual mobility is very helpful in terms of internationalization of Higher Education Institutes and companies, but can never replace a real exchange.
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National Platforms
- ESN Poland - 16th to 19 st December in Warsaw
- ESN Italy - 17th to 19th December in Siena
- ESN Slovakia - 7th to 9th January in Banska Bystrica
- ESN Greece - 17th to 19th December in Ioannina
- ESN Estonia - 19th to 20th February in Tallinn
- ESN Sweden - 18th to 20th February in Stockholm
- ESN Spain - 25th to 27th February in Barcelona
- CNR Eskisehir
The Council of National Representatives will take place in Eskisehir, Turkey from the 10th to 14thof February.
The registrations for this event are not open yet... stay tuned! - ESNow 2011, ESN The Netherlands
ESNow 2011 is coming up! This event started about 5 years ago with 40 students making a trip to the French Alpes. Now we will take 400 International and Dutch students to a week of snow and parties! The trip will be held from the 11th - 20th of March. Location: La Joue du Loupe, price: € 289,-, more info: www.esnow.nl or Facebook: ESNow 2011. To sign up or any other questions: info@esnow.nl. See you in the snow! - Belgian Alumni Meeting, February
An alumni meeting is taking place February 25th - 28th in Vielsalm, Belgium. Alumni are former ESN members. Both alumni and active ESN members are invited. The meeting aims to improve the relationship between the alumni and ESN.
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