Dear Sir/Madam,

As National Representative of ESN-Belgium I would like to invite you to take
part in the new research on exchange students rights in Europe done by
Erasmus Student Network.



As you might know, Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is a network of 215 non
profit student associations widespread in Europe and beyond. The mission of
ESN is to foster student mobility in Higher Education under the principle of
Students Helping Students.



Last year ESN survey proved to be a big success – we gathered almost 8000
questionnaires from international students. The report from ESNSurvey 2005
is available at http://www.esn.org/survey/?s=survey05



On the 8th of May, the new edition of ESNSurvey has started and the survey
will be available at www.esn.org/survey. We have again gathered almost 8000
answers, at a rate of 200 per day! What concerns ESN this year, besides the
quality of ESN work, are the exchange students' rights, e.g.:



   - Are the courses taken abroad by students recognised by their home
   institution?
   - Were they able to support themselves financially?
   -  Were they able to work legally?



We would like to ask You to take part in the project and inform all the
exchange students (outgoing and incoming) about the Survey. The example of
the letter to send is below this message.



Universities and organisations can become supporters of the survey, read
about it on www.esn.org/survey in Project description part.



For any questions about our survey, please contact our Vice-President of
ESN, Ewa Krzaklewska, at

vicepresident@esn.org&lt;http://www.esn.student.uj.edu.pl/mail/src/compose.php?send_to=vicepresident%40esn.org&gt;
.



Kind regards,

Christof Devriendt



************************************************************
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
phone: + 32(02)629.28.07 / fax: +32(02)629.28.65
************************************************************















Example of letter:







Dear Exchange Student,



This letter is for you, and all those who did their exchange abroad or are
about to complete it.



This year ESN (Erasmus Student Network) is launching a *survey* in order to
gather information about the rights of exchange students. This way we can
improve the exchange programmes for the next generations of students.



The questionnaire can be filled in online at *www.esn.org/survey*. Your code
to put at the beginning of the questionnaire is ESN.



If you fully complete the questionnaire, you will have a chance to win one
of 5 travel vouchers, each worth 100 Euros, for travel anywhere in Europe.



For any question about our survey, please contact
vicepresident@esn.org&lt;http://www.esn.student.uj.edu.pl/mail/src/compose.php?send_to=vicepresident%40esn.org&gt;



Thank you for your opinion! It does matter!



The ESN Survey Group

www.esn.org/survey**






-- 
Fédération des étudiants de l'ULg
Courriel : info@fede-ulg.org
Site Internet : http://www.fede-ulg.org/
Téléphone : 04 / 366 31 99
Télécopie : 04 / 366 57 88