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-About ESN Bergen-
Esn Bergen is now up running again, after a period with no activity. This is the 3rd year now, and we are truly wanted among all the exchange students.
We play a vital role in the integration of the exchangestudents, both social and personal, ex. them taking part in activities with the norwegians, settlement issues, in other words everything with the social and practical part when new in town.
Want to join us?
Each semester we do a lot of different kinds of activities such as quiz-nights, coffee-hours, parties, visiting local factories and companies (the most popular is at the local brewery..), week-ends with skiing, visiting other cities in Norway and much more.....+++
If you find this interesting, either you are an exchangestudent or a norwegian who wants to work with Esn Bergen, maybe you`ve been abroad, and want to meet a lot of new people, don`t hesitate contacting us:
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What is ESN?
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.
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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Last updated: 26th of January 2004