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Erasmus Student Network is a European wide
student network. Its goal is to support and develop student exchange.
It is composed of sections working in Higher Education Institutes
(Universities, Polytechnics, University Colleges etc.) and National
and International structures.
The History of Erasmus
Student Network
In 1987 the European Community approved
a plan to create an extensive mobility scheme for higher education.
The Erasmus
program thus created became one of the exchange programs
with which students in higher education can spend part of their
studies abroad. Two years later the Erasmus Bureau invited a few
former Erasmus students to an evaluation meeting in Belgium. This
resulted in the idea of the Erasmus Student Network, in order
to help international students encounter practical problems during
their stay at a host university via the system "students
help international students". ESN
sections were instituted in various European university
cities. With the financial support of the European Commission,
the founding meeting was organized in Copenhagen (Denmark) 1990
with participants from nearly all of the EC member states. In
that meeting the Erasmus Student Network became a legal association.
Nowadays the Erasmus Student Network, as a pan-European network,
provides its services to all exchange students studying in Europe.
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