meeting in Madrid.

Our sources tells us

that it was a great

event, a perfect mix of

serious dicussions and

party time. The com-

mittees are doing a

great job and we wo-

uld like to encourage

all of you guys to join a

committee. Please

read more about this

on the last page.

16 persons from

Sweden are now back

from AGM with a lot

of new memories and

new friends. AGM was

filled with a lot of

important decisions

to make, about the

future of ESN. Josefin

Svensson, a former

board member of ESN

Kalmar, was elected

communication

manager for ESN

International. We are

proad to have a swede

in the board! For you

who didn’t attend

AGM, we will update

you or your section

members about it on

NP in Malmö/Lund.

We hope to see you at

the next AGM!.

About a month ago,

there was an CoMeet

We in the ESN Sweden

board are happy to start

working with our tasks.

We have decide that we

want to

produced a montly

newsletter for you in the

sections. We saw a lot of

you guys in ESN SeaBattle

and we hope that you

had as much fun as we

did. However, we hoped

that you saved some

energy to NP Malmö/

Lund. More information

about what is happening,

can be found at the sche-

dual and agenda at info-

center. We hope that

everyone is ready for a

fun NP!

International News

National News

ESN Sweden

Newsletter 2 0 1 1 N U M B E R 1 IN THIS

EDITION ,

YOU CAN

READ

ABOUT

FOLLO-

WING :

Prime

Committe-

es

AGM

And of

course about

the

different

sections

P A G E 2

The board of

ESN Sweden is

looking

forward to go

to Seabattle!

Maria during

ESN Kalmars

Introduction

Get to know ESN Swedens board We in the ESN

Sweden Board has

produced this

newsletter so all of

you in the sections

can get know a little

bit more about what

is happening in the

rest of Sweden. Ho-

pefully it can create

inspiration and give

some ideas. Howe-

ver, we also would

like to promote some

international events

and projects in this

newsletter. We in

the board will also

use this newsletter

as a chance to

present ourselves to

all of you. Not only to

those who attend the

NP but also the rest

of the section

members. First out is

me, Maria Lundh. I

am the Vice NR of

ESN Sweden but also

the President of ESN

Kalmar. I am

responsible for this

newsletter, so if you

have any questions,

ideas or comments

you are welcome to

contact me.

So, who am I? Well, I

am 22 years old and

right now I study

economics with a

focus on tourism. I

am fairly new to ESN.

My adventure

started as a Buddy

for ESN Kalmar last

year. My main

passion here in life,

except from ESN, is

to baking and

cooking. Of course, I

love to eat it

afterwards! This is

actually one of the

reasons why I join

ESN, cause I wanted

to try food from all

over the world. Ho-

wever, now, I reliaze

that ESN stands for

Party people!

E S N S W E D E N N E W S L E T T E R

and ideas about the

trip so we can make

it better!

We want to remind

all of you guys about

our partnership with

VistaPrint.

Take the chance to

get t-shirts and other

things produced for

a discounted price!

Contact Sophie for

more information!

Seabattle is over and

we hope that you

had a lot of fun the-

re. You did not miss

all the different acti-

vities on board

right? What was the

most fun on the

boar and what did

you miss? Please tell

us all your thoughts

Our trips and sponsors

Section in focus - ESN Växjö

P A G E 3 2 0 1 1 N U M B E R 1

As you might know VIS – Växjö International Stu-dents, is an old and strong section on both local level as well as within ESN. VIS was born in 1991 and therefore we are at the moment cele-brating our 20th anniver-sary! We started of with about thirty members, no official board and without a Student Life Coordina-tor to help out. In October 1994 VIS was officially a section of ESN Sweden that means in three years we have another great anniversary to celebrate.

To make our birthday visible we have had a Sittning where we invited old board members from the past years as well as the newly elected board of ESN Sweden. After the dinner we finished of with a great birthday party where everyone danced around in their party hats and experienced the typical Swedish tradition of the ‘Fiskedam’ (Fishing pond) where the guests got small gifts.

In contrary to regular birthdays we have tried to give back to our mem-

bers in all kinds of levels. Not only have we tried to keep the prices down extra but also in some cases invited them to free event such as when we rented the Adventure Swimming Pool where all our members could join!

This has been the red thread through out this semester, the unofficial motto and our general way of thinking. To give back to the members not only through keeping the prices even lower but to create the feeling of that it is their birthday as much as ours.

This school year of ‘10/’11 has given us over a thousand members joining us for over forty activities such as the successful Fotsal Tournament, IKEA trips, Moose & Glasswork trip, Salsa lessons, several weekend trips and much, much more. Today we are 519 members, a board of 17 as well as an Activity Committee helping us create a lot of fun. With currently three people from ESN Växjö in the national board, where two of them are active members and one of them as a Member of Honor the ESN spirit is

stronger than ever and because of that we are of course very proud of our section.

Though success is not about how many mem-bers you have in ESN Sweden but rather how many students you reach out to. Meeting several former exchange stu-dents at AGM Budapest asking for VIS as well as Karin Siöö shows we are doing a great job and that is what keeps us aiming for our 40th anniversary!

Bus trips

are

actually a

lot of fun!

Picture from the birthday

P A G E 4

ESN Kalmar

ESN CIRC CIRC stands for Chalmers International Recep-tion Committee and is active in Gothenburg (Göteborg). CIRC is a part of the Student Union of Chalmers University and they are mostly active dur-ing the reception periods, the first month in each

semester (September and January). ESN CIRC also participates in national ESN events such as the ESN Road-trips to Russia, PRIME, etc. At the moment ESN CIRC is in Russia with a group leader and 20 students. As part of their reception activities they have organized a sauna

evening, different theme parties, city tours, etc. Unfortu-nately ESN CIRC will not take part of the AGM because of a lim-ited travel budget. Their participation in NP Lund/Malmö is also still unconfirmed.

Kalmar a little bit

more. Except from

the Radio we have

arranged different

parties but also star-

ted with Social Eras-

mus. We are still in

the planning process

ESN Kalmar has

started a Radio Show

that everyone can lis-

ten to. Go to

www.radioshore.se,

press ’lyssna’ and then

’öppna webbradio’ .

Get to know ESN

with the schools but

we hope that our

students can visit

them soon. We are

looking forward to a

collaboration with

Kristianstad Högskola.

The best time every

in Kalmar

E S N S W E D E N N E W S L E T T E R

ESN Stockholm KTH ESN Stockholm KTH is

working on getting a

carrige to the Qarnevalen.

Qarnevalen is a parad that

takes place every third

year. A lot of students are

working with the

Qarneval. 400 000

people sees it so it is a

brilliant way to get

promotion. ESN

Stockholm KTH works to

get more student

sections and organization

to use more english but

also to print guides to

typical Swedish things for

the exchange students.

This to make it

easier for the

exchange students to

understand what is

happening. ESN KTH is

also working to build a

strong collaboration

with iaeste and aiesec.

P A G E 5 2 0 1 1 N U M B E R 1

to involve ESN project such as PRIME and the ESN Sea Battle. ESN Luleå will organize the NP after summer 2011, so the section has been working on these arrangements. For their international students

ESN Luleå (a.k.a LURC – Luleå University Recep-tion Committee) is the youngest of the Swedish ESN sections, and they are also a part of their Student Union. At the moment they have expanded their activities

they have organized a trip to the Ice Hotel, party with Swedish students, Foodfes-tival (Eurodinner), etc. LURC will unfortunately not be present at the AGM, but they have already con-firmed their participation to NP Lund/Malmö!

ESN Luleå

ESN Lund ESN Lund is situated in a beautiful town in the south of Sweden. In the upco-ming week, ESN Lund orga-nizes a party in one of Lunds Nations. The theme will be flags! To organize parties and dinner parties is one of ESN Lund specialties and you will al-ways leave their parties with a huge smile in your

face. An upcoming trip that ESN Lund is to the beautiful city Prague! It is cooperation between ESN Lund and ESN Pra-gue. ESN Lund likes to cooperate and in May they will work with ESN Copenhagen and have a night of party in each others cities. Together

with their neighbor ESN Malmö, they will also be organizing the next National Platform!

If you want to learn more about ESN Lund, visit their webpage http://esn lund.esnsweden.com/

Cheers from Lund!

Picture from ESN

Lund in Lappland

P A G E 6

ESN Malmö Interact

No information was received from ESN

Skövde, ESN Linköping, ESN Jönköping

a brilliant NP with a

lot of fun for all the

sections in Sweden.

ESN Malmö Interact

looks forward to show

ESN Sweden, their

lovely city.

ESN Malmö Interact

has put a lot of focus

on AGM and NP,

which will be held in

Malmö and Lund. ESN

Malmö

Interact hope to make

E S N S W E D E N N E W S L E T T E R

Besids for shopping trips they have done a day ski-trip to Romme but also a trip to Lappland. To educate their ex-change students they take a trip to Örebro castle, so they can get to know a little bit

more about the cas-tles history.

ESN Örebro is also very active with So-cial Erasmus, they are now planning a trip to the prison.

ESN Örebro has worked on a new logo for the section to have a good visual identity.

ESN Örebro has also done some activities such as a trip to the well known (for Swed-ish people) Ullared.

ESN Örebro

Prime

P A G E 7 2 0 1 1 N U M B E R 1

PRIME, Problems of Re-

cognition In Making Erasmus is a project that

problably everyone knows about now. If not, please

read this text!! Prime is a complex qualitative and

quantitative research which aim is to point out

the examples of existing obstacles to student

mobility and to provide suggestions for

improvements in order to facilitate student ex-

change in Europé. Prime

research focus on National Agenicies, Higher Educa-

tion Institutions and stu-

dents.

ESN is right now collecting

information and later on it will by analyzed in a

PRIME 2010 report.

In order to make PRIME

results more accesible to

broad amount of students,

a guidebook and a video

guide will be produced. It

will be a short, yet

comprehensive

publication, providing

relevant information on

recognition process and

ongoing students rights in

an attractive form. Infor-

mation about PRIME: http://esn.org/content/prime-

problems-recognition-making-

erasmus

If you have any questions

about PRIME, Contact

your local coordinator or

our national coordinator,

Karin Persdotter on:

karin.persdotter@

esnsweden.org

with the network how wonderful your section is...? Don't be shy, check on the magazine page what you have to do!

Take into consideration - Deadline 20th April 23:59 - Info on how to write an article: esn.org/content/be-journalist-

write-article-express - Where do you send the articles? In case of ques-tions? express@esn.org However We would like to receive articles about AGM, expe-riences, emotions, im-pressions... everything!

Marco&Leo eXpress Team

"Social&Green"! Is your section green? Do you organize social activities? And of course, as always, your section has the chance to promote projects, activities, best practices! How? When? What? Do you want to know how to become a journalist? Would you like to share

eXpress #11 Call

Make a

difference,

influence

studies

abroad!

P A G E 8

CoMeet is best

combination of

pleasure and

serious things -

Antonio Del

Sole,

Education

Committee

Get a

unforgetteble

experiece

Committees: a focus on the education committee

Join a Committee Committees are very

important for ESN. The

people in the committees

are doing their best to

improve ESN. Currently

there are five different

committees; Internatio-

nal Education (ICE),

Network & Events (NEC),

Communication

(ComCom), Finance

(FiCo) and Information

Technology (IT). There is

a committee for all diffe-

rent intrests in ESN. We

strongly

incourage everybody

to get involved at a

more international

level. This is your time

to shine, this is your

time to make a

change! So take it

now.

in addition to have an ex-cellent knowledge of the functioning of ESN as well as of its activities and projects (it needs to be good some ESNrs!) – are people with a relevant expertise in their field and with very strong motivations. The International Committee for Education(ICE) is responsible for developing the long term strategies for educational policy, for preparing the ESN policy papers on different topics, for research related projects, such as the important ESN survey and PRIME. ICE is also involved, among others, in the European Year of Volunteering project and ESN Eduk8. Recently, ICE has finished to work on two position papers, the Modernisation of Higher Education and

the Future of Erasmus, which are high quality documents, and will be accessible to public in the next days. In just over a year old the thematic Committees have become some real and bows thinking bodies, the “think tanks” of ESN! They contain a significant part of the “thinking soul” of the greatest innovative European Association to support the policies in the high mobility education. But they also give to ESN and to mobility policies the operating arms! Antonio Del Sole Member of ICE Committee – ESN ASSI Parma and ESN Alumni

From 3rd to 6th of March 2011 the second “CoMeet” was arranged and this time in Madrid. the meeting of the all ESN Committees. It was organised by the section ESN UAM at the Univer-sidad Autónoma de Ma-drid, and was attended by about 70 Committee members. This is the perfect way for the different committees to meet and discuss different things. All the committees are equally significant for ESN life. The Committees are structured as advisory and implementing bodies of ESN, with no decision-making powers. The Committees are composed of a Chair and one or two Vice Chairs, and a number of members varies. The Committees members –

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