Erasmus Student Network
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| Abbreviation | ESN |
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| Motto | "Students Helping Students" |
| Formation | 16 October 1989 |
| Type | INGO |
| Legal status | AISBL |
| Purpose | Educational |
| Headquarters | Brussels, Belgium |
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| Coordinates | 50°50′54″N 4°22′18″E / 50.848256°N 4.371761°E |
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Region served
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Europe (40 countries) |
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Membership
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Student organisations |
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Official language
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English |
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President
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Safi Sabuni |
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Main organ
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Annual General Meeting (AGM) |
| Affiliations | YFJ (full membership), EUCIS-LLL (full membership), EAIE (courtesy member), Council of Europe (participatory status), European Movement International (full membership) |
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Staff
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5 International Board Members, 4 Employees, 2 Trainees |
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Volunteers
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521 sections, about 13,500 volunteers (July 2016) |
| Website | www.esn.org |
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is a Europe-wide student organisation. Its goal is to support and develop student exchange on a local, national and international level. It is composed of around 13,500 members in over 500 local sections in 39 countries in Higher Education Institutions, including universities, polytechnics, and university colleges. The network offers its services to around 160,000 international students.
ESN facilitates the social and personal integration of international students. The local ESN sections offer help, guidance and valuable information to both exchange students and students doing a full degree abroad. ESN provides information about academic exchange programmes and student mobility in general.
In 1987, the European Community approved a plan to create a mobility scheme for higher education. Part of it was the Erasmus programme - an exchange programme for students to provide students with the opportunity to spend part of their studies abroad.
In 1989 the Erasmus Bureau invited 32 former Erasmus Students for an evaluation meeting in Ghent, Belgium. This meeting was the starting point for the Erasmus Student Network. The lack of peer-to-peer support was singled out as a major issue and the driving force behind the creation of the Erasmus Student Network, named for the Dutch Renaissance humanist.
ESN sections were founded in various European universities and with financial support from the EC a meeting for the official founding of ESN International was organised in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 1990 with 49 participants from almost all member states that were part of the Erasmus programme. ESN International became a legal association. Desiree Majoor from Utrecht, Netherlands became the first president in ESN history.
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