---------------------------- Message original ---------------------------- Objet:   Welcome to ESN
De:      "Davide Capecchi" &lt;president@esn.org&gt;
Date:    Jeu 20 avril 2006 11:25
À:       erasmus@fede-ulg.org
Copie à: "Board@Esn.Org" &lt;board@esn.org&gt;
         "Secretariat ESN Int" &lt;secretariat@esn.org&gt;
         "[ESN.org Webmaster] Antonio De Marco" &lt;webmaster@esn.org&gt; belgium@esn.org
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Dear ESN LIÈGE,

it is a pleasure for me to welcome you to Erasmus Student Network, the broadest network for exchange students of Europe and beyond. You were accepted as an official member of ESN by the National Platform of
ESN Belgium.

Our mission is to foster student mobility in Higher Education under the principle of SHS - Students Helping Students.

In order to get updated about the life of the network, and to let the network be updated with your life, always refer to you current
National Representative, Christof, reachable at belgium@esn.org, to our website www.esn.org and to our webmagazine www.incommon.info, where you can always post articles – what about an introduction of
yourselves?

ESN runs also a Secretariat in Brussels, where the Secretary General, currently Patrick Fiquet (secretariat@esn.org) and often International Board members are available for supporting by all means the sections. The telephone number is 003222902271 and the fax 003222902280.

Please enjoy the welcome package that we will sending to you (as soon as you first ESN fee will be transferred). Show your ESN flag on every of your events or hang it in your office. You will receive the Monthly Mail every month to the email address of your section.

Should you have any questions or comments, please let your NR know about it, he will be happy to help you and to provide you with all the tools and the information for working in the very Pallomeri
spirit, and please don't forget to send to us your first application fee (25 euros), valid for 2006. For the following years, the
membership fee for the section is 50 euros.

If you are wondering about the advantages for being a Section of ESN, I am attaching below a list of them, taken from our website
http://www.esn.org/members/section_package.php

Once more, welcome on board,

Pallomeri,

Davide


ESN Section Package

Are you maybe wondering...

...what you earn by BEING or BECOMING a SECTION of ESN?

There we go! It is just a SECTION PACKAGE:

·        ESNCard plus discounts and services

·        Corporate Design

·        Knowledge exchange

·        Evaluation tools: survey

·        Network contacts

·        International sponsorships

·        ESN trainings

·        ESN international events

·        Free places for external events

·        PR material

·        Recognition and use of the ESN brand

·        Partnership between sections

·        Web page alias

·        Internships opportunities

·        Alumni network

ESNCard = membership plus discounts

The ESNCard Project was born in 2004 after three years of planning. It aims to distribute a common ESNCard to ESN Members and the exchange students in Europe which is to show their membership in the biggest community of internationally minded students. The ESNCard is
distributed by the ESN Sections or by the International Relations
Offices in the Universities that joined the project.
Being a cardholder means having access to international, national and local advantages and discounts. If you are an ESN Section, you have the opportunity to access this unique product: order your ESNCards by writing to ESN Treasurer.
For further info visit the ESNCard Project web page
Corporate Design Package

This is a whole of communication tools for visually demonstrating your professionalism and your belongingness to a pan-European (and beyond!) organisation. If you already are an ESN Section you can download the Corporate Design of ESN
Knowledge exchange

By being a node of the network you can get acquainted with other
people sharing your interests and you practises. An IT whole of tools is to be created for supporting the Knowledge Management issues of such a huge network! An ESN Section has the right to participate in this project and in this practise.
Evaluation/survey

June 2005: an online questionnaire is launched. July 2005 : the first edition of the survey collected more than 7700 answers! All ESN
Sections could ask for the data produced by them. By this evaluation ESN Sections can learn how to improve the services they provide. Every year the Survey will be improved.
Network contacts

Want to go to Copenhagen for a party? Or to Prague for a week-end with your Erasmus Students? Maybe shopping and having a tasty aperitivo in Milan? Being part of the ESN Network means being welcome in 200 places in Europe and beyond! Fellow ESNrs are always keen on welcoming other ESNrs! Browse the list of ESN Sections
International sponsorships

As a network of internationally minded people, ESN could gain
interesting deals that allow ESN Sections to collect resources for funding their activities. Check the list of our partners
ESN trainings

Members of ESN Sections can participate in internal training events organised by ESNrs for ESNrs: in fact, who knows ESNrs' needs better that ESNrs?
ESN international events

Meet members of ESN Sections from whole Europe (and beyond!) on
Partner Sections Meetings, Regional and National Platforms, Cultural Medley, Annual General Meetings.
Free places to some external events

ESN is often invited to participate in interesting events like
students' camps, conferences, trainings, conventions and happenings. ESN Sections are always invited to participate in these events. VERY often ESNrs are invited to participate for FREE.
PR material

Pens, posters, T-Shirts, ESN Flags, stickers: everything corporate. To express being proud of ESN. ESN Sections can order and receive ESN Gadgets by visiting the ESN E-Shop page.
Recognition/brand

An ESN Section is recognized and appreciated as a member of the
biggest and best known international network of internationally minded students who are eager to help other students to succeed in their own exchange. Many universities and Institutions would be happy to support a Section Member of ESN.
Partnership between sections

The ESN Sections are welcome to strengthen friendship relationships among each other. Some tens of partnerships came into being/arose in the last years. Do you want to put your Pallomeri spirit into
practise?
Web page alias

Want to be branded and promoted by www.esn.org/your_section_name
address? Or need some help with developing your section web page? Just contact the webmaster
Internships opportunities

Already many internationally minded people won internships because they belonged to an ESN Section. Internships are in multinational
companies, and offered often within the ESNCard Project.
Alumni network

ESN, like many other international student organisations, is setting up its Alumni Network.

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Davide Capecchi
President International Board
www.esn.org - www.incommon.info
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