What Is ESN?
ABOUT / WHAT IS ESN?
Students helping
students.
Erasmus Student Network is an international, volunteer-based student organisation working to make international mobility more accessible, meaningful and inclusive.
01 / WHO WE ARE
A student network
built around mobility.
Erasmus Student Network brings together students and volunteers who believe that an international experience can change people, universities and communities.
ESN works directly with international students, supporting their integration and helping them make the most of their mobility experience.
The network is volunteer-led and rooted in peer-to-peer support: students helping other students navigate a new academic, social and cultural environment.
ESN also works with universities, institutions, youth organisations and other stakeholders to improve international mobility.
02 / OUR MISSION
“Enrichment of society through international students.”
International mobility creates encounters between people, perspectives and cultures — encounters that can strengthen society as a whole.
03 / HOW WE WORK
From arrival
to belonging.
Practical support, community building and representation throughout the international student experience.
01
Welcome
Helping students discover their new city, university and community.
02
Connect
Creating opportunities for local and international students to meet.
03
Support
Providing practical peer support throughout mobility.
04
Represent
Bringing international students' needs to institutions.
PEOPLE / THE NETWORK
It works because
people show up.
Behind every activity are students volunteering their time for other students.
04 / LOOKING FORWARD
Empowering the
Erasmus Generation.
ESN aims to support international mobility while creating space for competence development, engagement and young people who want to become change-makers.
05 / WHAT WE STAND FOR
Different backgrounds.
Shared values.
01
Unity in diversity
Different backgrounds connected by a shared purpose.
02
Students helping students
Peer support, empathy and shared experience.
03
Fun in friendship and respect
Relationships built on enjoyment and trust.
04
International dimension of life
Curiosity and openness beyond borders.
05
Europe and beyond
Cultural exchange, cooperation and dialogue.
06
Openness and tolerance
Accepting differences and learning from them.
07
Cooperation in integration
Making internationalisation part of everyday life.