Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Erasmus Student Network |
| Acronym: |
ESN
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| Legal status: |
AISBL
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| Website address: |
http://www.esn.org
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Emanuel Alfranseder
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| Position: |
President |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Mr
Emanuel Alfranseder
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| Position: |
President |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
15 Rue Hydraulique
Brussels 1210
BELGIUM
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| Telephone number: |
(+32) 22567427 |
| Fax number: |
(+) |
| Other contact information: |
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Vision:
Enrichment of society through international students.
Mission:
ESN is the key volunteer student organisation in international higher education in Europe. We provide opportunities for cultural understanding and self-development under the principle of SHS - Students Helping Students.
Goals:
1. ESN aims at working in the interest of students who are spending parts of or their entire formal education at a higher education institution in a country other than the one of their origin, by means of:
1.2 Improvement of the social and practical integration of exchange students at their host institutions.
1.2 Representation of the needs and expectations of exchange students on the local, national and international level.
1.3 Provision of relevant information about academic exchange programmes and ESN resources.
1.4 Reintegration of homecoming students by making them active in the network.
1.5 Contribution to the evaluation of different exchange programmes.
1.6 Motivation of students to spent a period of their higher education in another country.
1.7 Social and practical preparation of students on the brink of their mobility period.
2. ESN aims at concerning itself directly or indirectly with these goals, defined as broadly as possible.
3. ESN aims at creating conditions for the better understanding of each other’s cultures between students of different origins.
ESN is a non- political organisation, and works without:
- Connection to political parties or systems
- Commitment to specific political thoughts or ideologies
- Connection to any religious or confessional groupings
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is the biggest inter-disciplinary European student organisation in the field of mobility. We are a non-political, non-profit and non-religious organisation with over 10.000 volunteer members from local student groups (so called sections) in 321 Higher Education Institutions in 32 countries. Our network provides its services annually to about 150.000 international students in Europe and beyond, at a local, national and international level.
The local sections support educational, social and cultural integration of exchange students, as well as provide practical information for incoming and outgoing students about the exchange programmes and about the possibilities of the reintegration.
The international level of ESN (especially the International Board based in Brussels and the Council of National Representatives) brings all our members, sections and countries together, thus creates one common voice representing mobile students on the European continent, in Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Since 1989, Erasmus Student Network works for the creation of a more mobile and flexible education environment by supporting and developing the student exchange from different levels, and providing an intercultural experience also to those students who cannot access a period abroad ("internationalisation at home").
ESN also represents needs, rights and expectations of international students in the fields of higher education and mobility towards policy- and decision makers.
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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- sub-national
- national
- European
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
0
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Complementary information:
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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European Commission:
DG EAC:
Education
- Green paper on mobility of young people
- Representation of international students
- Academic recognition
- Mobility of students
Youth
- EP Written Declaration on the empowerment of young people
- EP Written Declaration on declariming 2011 as the Year of Volunteering
(both in cooperation with the European Youth Forum)
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Culture
- Education
- Employment and Social Affairs
- Youth
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
12,000 |
| Number of member organisations: |
36 |
| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
- ESN Austria (18 members)
- ESN Azerbaijan (1 members)
- ESN Belgium (8 members)
- ESN Bosnia and Herzegovina (1 members)
- ESN Bulgaria (5 members)
- ESN Croatia (2 members)
- ESN Cyprus (1 members)
- ESN Czech Republic (11 members)
- ESN Denmark (4 members)
- ESN Estonia (5 members)
- ESN Finland (16 members)
- ESN France (22 members)
- ESN F.Y.R.O.M. (4 members)
- ESN Georgia (2 members)
- ESN Germany (25 members)
- ESN Greece (12 members)
- ESN Hungary (13 members)
- ESN Iceland (1 members)
- ESN Ireland (2 members)
- ESN Italy (44 members)
- ESN Latvia (1 members)
- ESN Lithuania (10 members)
- ESN Malta (1 members)
- ESN Netherlands (15 members)
- ESN Norway (8 members)
- ESN Poland (34 members)
- ESN Portugal (6 members)
- ESN Romania (6 members)
- ESN Serbia (2 members)
- ESN Slovakia (10 members)
- ESN Slovenia (5 members)
- ESN Spain (33 members)
- ESN Sweden (12 members)
- ESN Switzerland (13 members)
- ESN Turkey (30 members)
- ESN United Kingdom (13 members)
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- AUSTRIA
- BELGIUM
- BULGARIA
- CYPRUS
- CZECH REPUBLIC
- DENMARK
- ESTONIA
- FINLAND
- FRANCE
- GERMANY
- GREECE
- HUNGARY
- IRELAND
- ITALY
- LATVIA
- LITUANIA
- MALTA
- NETHERLANDS
- POLAND
- PORTUGAL
- ROMANIA
- SLOVAKIA
- SLOVENIA
- SPAIN
- SWEDEN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
- ICELAND
- MACEDONIA, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF
- NORWAY
- SERBIA
- SWITZERLAND
- TURKEY
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Complementary information:
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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- Member of the European Youth Forum (YFJ)
- Participatory status with the Council of Europe
- Courtesy member of the European Association for International Education (EAIE)
- Member of Informal Forum of International Student Organisation (IFISO)
- Member of EUCIS-LLL
- Associate member of the European Students' Union (ESU)
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
01/2010
-
12/2010
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Total budget:
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346,678
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€
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of which public financing:
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178,514
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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178,514
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€
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- from national sources:
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0
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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0
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€
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from other sources: |
168,164
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€
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- donations:
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68,658
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€
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- contributions from members:
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19,290
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€
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- Sold products (membership cards, gadgets) :
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61,457
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€
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- Supporters :
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14,300
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€
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- Others (projects, extraordinary income) :
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4,459
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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350000
€ - 400000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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