Dear Belgian ESN-Sections and Friends,

For those who not know me yet, I'm Christof and I'm currently the President of
ESN-Brussels and also assigned to be the National Representative of Belgium. First
of all I hope you all had a fantastic second semester at your city full of memorable
activities. Last Saturday ESN-Brussels said goodbye to the many exchange students
from our university during a fantastic barbecue with lot?s of food, drinks, sun and
fun.

I?m writing this letter to remind you to some important/interesting things about ESN
and to look forward what the future might bring and a lovely invitation to Brussels.



1. The new Corporate Identity has arrived!

As you may have noticed, ESN is reborn with a new identity, a new logo and a new
website.
Read more about the new corporate identity in the attached monthly mail of
ESN-International.
I also attached the new logo?s, you can already use them to change your website and
your letterheads, presentations etc?.



2. ESNSurvey 2006: Exchange Students? rights ? update June
Are the exchange student rights respected?

ESN Survey is one of the biggest projects of our organization. Last year ESN survey
proved to be a big success ? we gathered almost 8000 questionnaires from
international students.
Please invite the exchange students at your university to fill in the survey:
www.esn.org/survey
The code to put at the beginning of the questionnaire is ESN.


3. ESN Cards: how to order them


If you have not yet ordered your new ESN-cards please do it very urgently! 
Reminder: If you still have old cards, you can of course continue to use them. 
Ordering periods:

1. 1st of May ? 30th of June 0.50 ? (plus 0.15 ? if transportation costs, optional)
per card
2. After 30th of June 0.70 ? (plus 0.15 ? if transportation costs, optional) per card.

Delivery time: ESNCards will be sent (upon reception of proof of payment) by the
31st August. ESNCards will be sent via priority mail. The normal travel time is
(experience of the last year) three to ten days.

The contact for orders is the ESNCard project coordinator, Nick Andries, reachable
at esncard@esn.org - let Nick know

1. How many ESNCards you order: 0,50 ? per unit
2. If you would like the board to send the ESNCards to you (the factory is around
Krakow):additional 0,15 ? per unit
3. In the last case, to what address and to the attention of whom
4. Send a copy of the payment statement if possible (also scan is fine)


4. ESN Cards: Local discounts

It would be fantastic if we would try to gather the information of the local
discounts of our ESN-sections in Belgium. Therefore I ask you kindly to reply on
this mail and provide me with the list of discounts you may offer to the exchange
students of the other sections. Then I will make a list of all those discounts and
send it back to all of you.

As for ESN-Brussels the two most interesting discounts for your exchange-students
with the ESN-card are:

1.        a 10% discount on all beers at one of best and most lovely beer-bar of Brussels: 
Check it out on our site: http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~pvhee/esn/site/activity.php?id=117
      or at : http://www.laportenoire.be/

2.        Discount with D-tours ?4 instead of ?7: This is probably one of the best ways to
discover and learn about Brussels in a very unique way. Perfect when you are
intending to do a city-trip in Brussels and afterward you go to La Porte Noire:
      Check it out on our site:
      http://wilma.vub.ac.be/~pvhee/esn/site/activity.php?id=94



5. ESN is participating in the Zabinki Summer Camp

If you don't have your holidays planned yet. Here's a wonderful way of spending them
and broadening your horizon: Poland by the lake in August. From the 16th till the
25th of August you can have free canoeing, mountainbiking and pool, swimming, eating
and drinking (hey, half a liter is less than 1 euro). Also workshops and great
parties, organised by a cool team. Ask questions to Nick or click on the link to the
website carefully and learn how you can get 10% off the price: 
I refer for more info (and how to get 10% off the price) to the website of the camp
--> http://www.zabinki.pl


6. ESN Belgium.

ESN-Belgium??? Ever heard about it?well to be honest not a lot.
This Saturday ESN-Brussels is going to brainstorm how we can invite you to Brussels
for what we could call a ?National Platform?.

Personally my opinion is to start to invite you for a lovely barbecue and a drink
offered by ESN-Brussels at our campus to get to know each other.
The next day we go for a lovely city trip in Brussels, and of course we pass by the
ESN-house (that is actually also my home). There we Brainstorm about some ESN-topics
such as: ESN-card discounts in Belgium, Website of ESN-Belgium, joint ESN-activities
and city-trips, international ESN events, sponsors, etc?. And in the evening we
continue ofcourse with having some drinks and parties. Fun and Friendschip will be
the message
We are intending to do this at the end of September. We can provide housing in
Brussels.

As soon we have more information about this event we let you know.

If you intend to change your board next year please inform them about our intentions
to organize a ?national platform? at the end of September in Brussels. If you have
ideas or you want to help us please contact us. If you want to be more active on the
national and international level you can also contact me, because there are a lot of
things to do such as organizing an event for the 20th anniversary of Erasmus,
seeking for sponsors such as mobile-companies or travel-agencies, website of
ESN-Belgium, joint trips/weekends etc?


7. ESN House.

As I already mentioned ESN has its own house in Brussels. You are always welcome at
this wonderful house and even free to stay at our ESN-house if you want to visit or
party in Brussels. Just give me a call or send me an email if you want to stay over
in Brussels.



So this is everything I wanted to say, I hope you enjoyed it and I?m really looking
forward to meet all of you in Brussels in September or even before.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have some questions, or just want to come to
Brussels or even invite us at your section. We are always ready to go for a drink in
a lovely bar or a great party with ESN-people.


Greetings and lots of fun,
Christof and the ESN-Brussels-Team

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ESN Brussel Belgium
A heart for students in the heart of Europe
http://www.esn-brussels.be 
esn@vub.ac.be 
+32477412049 
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ir. Devriendt Christof 
National Representative Erasmus Student Network Belgium (ESN Belgium)
President Erasmus Student Network Brussels (ESN Brussels)
PhD-Student Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) 
Department of Mechanical Engineering (MECH) 
Acoustics and Vibration Research Group (AVRG) 
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium 
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