Sunday 16 September 2007 was a Milestone in the History of ESN Belgium!
A National Platform was organized and 14 participants were present. They were the delegates of four Belgium ESN sections: ESN Brussels, ESN Ehsal, ESN Gent and ESN Louvain La Neuve and from our partner organization in Brussels, Express.
We started with a nice introduction of each other while having a drink and eating some cake. We continued with presenting our local ESN sections and discussed the difficulties we encounter and how we can improve the daily management of our organization. The full agenda can be found at the bottom of this post.
The hot-topic of the day was the discussion and presentation about the ESN Galaxy. We discussed about: What is a Satellite? What are the functionalities? Why should we all need to have a satellite? What is the Galaxy?
We not only welcomed our newest Satellite Website of ESN Ehsal, which can be found on www.esnehsal.be, but we also installed two new Satellite websites of ESN Gent and ESN Louvain La Neuve, respectively www.esngent.be and www.esnlln.be.
Full agenda of the Belgium National Platform:
Introduction people
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- Who are you and what is your function in ESN/organization
- What do you study?
- Did you go on Erasmus?
Introduction organizations
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- What is your university
- How many Erasmus Student do you support
- Do you have a buddy system or other support/welcome mechanisms
- What are your main activities
- What is your annual budget and do you receive support form your university
Open discussion points
What is the most successful approach to attract Belgium students to your organizations?
What is the best practice to manage your organization, are their fixed functions, do you create working groups?
How do you inform your students about your activities?
Website
Topics to be addressed: What is a Satellite? What are the functionalities? Why should we all need to have a satellite? What is the Galaxy?Talk about your own experience with the Satellite and what are the encountered difficulties
Parnerships
What are your local sponsors?
Do you have your own bar with special deals for your Erasmusstudents.
Proximus: presentation/discussion/practicalities.
What could we achieve more in the future: alone and together?
ESN cards.
Regional Platforms. What, Where, When, Who
ESN Belgium: Creating a National Board en Brainstorm about the function of ESN Belgium. ESN Belgium Fund? New National Representative.
AGM: When and What about Transportation?
ESN Snow: ski-trip with over 800 Erasmus-students
