Erasmus Student Network
At the moment the network consists of more
then 160 sections active in 24 European countries. This represents
almost 60,000 students a year with whom we work directly. The
aims of ESN are to promote the social and personal integration
of the students who spend a part of their studies at a foreign
Higher Education Institute (HEI).
ESN helps the students and gives them
advice as well as guarantees the provision of practical information
about various exchange programs. Every country and every university
has its own traditions. It takes time for a newcomer to find his
way in the new environment. The most qualified person to guide
an exchange student in the university world and to show him/her
some time saving shortcuts through the local bureaucracy is a
local student. The students at the local ESN section offer this
service and other valuable information to the international students
hosted by their HEI. One of the aims of ESN is to help international
students during their stay in another country and to help the
exchange students utilize their time in the best way possible
to get as much out of the exchange as possible.
Aims
of Erasmus Student Network
The official aims of ESN as formulated
in the Statutes of ESN are:
ESN aims at working in the interest of exchange students in
the field of higher education in Europe, by means of:
- Improvement of the social and practical
integration of exchange students at their host institution.
- Representation of the needs and expectations
of exchange students on the local, national and international
level.
- Provision of relevant information
about academic exchange programs and ESN resources.
- Reintegration of homecoming students
by making them active in the network.
- Contribution to evaluation of different
exchange programs.
ESN aims at concerning itself directly
or indirectly with everything in connection with the above mentioned
as broadly as possible. ESN aims at creating the conditions for
better understanding of each other's cultures and national habits
between students of different nationalities. ESN works without
being associated with any political party or confessional grouping.
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