ISC MU Brno

A New Year has arrived and with the new 2011, we also have a new Section in the Spotlight,
which is located in the Czech Republic: ISC MU Brno. The ESN Team of ISC MU Brno
currently consist out of 50 members who are happily working for the exchange students
and organize cultural, sportive, educational and party events on a daily basis to offer the
exchange a wide variety and make sure that they are not bored during their stay in the Czech
Republic. Next to pub quizzes, movie nights, sports competitions and a tandem program,
they also have language courses taught by their exchange students to offer interested
people free language courses. This semester people could learn Czech, Polish, Spanish,
Portuguese, French, German, English and even Chinese. Apart from that the Erasmus and
their countries are introduced in a weekly radio show where you can also listen to typical
music of the countries. But this is not the only way exchange students can take part in the
program of the ISC. A very popular event is “Erasmus got talent”, organized by exchange
students, where everyone gets the chance to show what they got and perform on stage.
Another event where the exchange students play a big role is the “Youth for you(th)” festival,
organized together with YMCA, in order to show, that young people do care about their
culture and that they are very active. The Erasmus people have one stage in the city centre,
where they again can show some performances, also typical ones from their countries and
they also help in organizing the festival.

The ISC team is very active and they work very hard and very well together, which is
probably because they enjoy what they are doing and also organize special team meetings,
as a pancake evening, a Christmas meeting, a sushi party or ice-skating together to keep
up the good team spirit. They also work together with the other sections, when they e.g.
organized the CEP in Brno or when they attend section meetings with participants from
Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. They even have a partnership with Brno’s
twin city Utrecht in the Netherlands and visit each other on a regular basis.

A very special event of ISC MU Brno is connected to a medieval castle. The Hartenberg
castle was severely damaged by a fire in 1985 and the section agreed on helping to rebuild
the ruins as a Social Erasmus project together with the exchange students. But the students
do not only rebuild the castle, but also organized a special evening for kids on Halloween,
where they played ghosts and creepy creatures to give the children a big scare. In return for
their help, the students got the chance to stay at the castle and they were accommodated
in the ruins for free and were able to experience the life of the Medieval times, which can be
very challenging in the winter, as there is no proper heating system. The exchange students
had so much fun, that they asked for a repetition of the event, even though it is winter.