ESN in 2004-2005 In September 2004, the CNR in Tallinn approved four new countries: Cyprus, Morocco, Romania, Slovakia. So at the time of the AGM in Gdansk (March 2005) ESN had members in 27 countries in Europe and, for the first time in the network life, in Africa. During the year the Board of ESN International approved 22 new sections:
moved a vote of no confidence to him at the CNR meeting in Athens in January 2005. The Board of ESN International had twelve meetings: 22nd March in Helsinki, Finland 24th-27th April in Winterthur, Switzerland 5th-7th May in Debrecen, Hungary
Czech Republic (2): ESN Brno, ESN Olomouc
19th-20th June in Minho, Portugal
Denmark (1): ESN Copenhagen
3rd-4th July in Genoa, Italy
France (3): ESN Lyon, ESN Troyes, ESN Télécom Bretagne
13th-15th August in Dresden, Germany
Germany (1): ESN Hannover Italy (2): ESN AURE Camerino, ESN GEF Firenze Lithuania (2): ESN Siauliai, ESN Kaunas Morocco (2): ESN Ifrane, ESN Marrakech Norway (1): ESN Agder University College Poland (2): ESN-UL Lodz, ESN-UAM Poznan Portugal (1): ESN Lisbon School of Law Romania (1): ESN Cluj-Napoca Spain (1): ESN EISN-UAB Barcelona
23rd-24th September in Tartu, Estonia 19th-20th November in Odense, Denmark 13th-15th December in Parma, Italy 6th-8th January in Francavilla Fontana, Italy 11th-13th February in Riga, Latvia 12th-13th March in Warsaw, Poland Financially, the Income Statement of 2004 consisted, on the income side, of the following turnover: membership fees 1.630,00 ,ESN Cards 3.597,50, with a total turnover of 5.227,50 EUR.
Slovakia (1): ESN Bratislava Sweden (1): ESN Gàvle Switzerland (1): ESN Sion This brought the total number of full members of ESN International to 185 sections. Four Regional Platforms took place: South European Platform (SEP) in Marrakesh (Morocco) from 9th to 12th of October, Central European Platform (CEP) in Velden (Austria) from 15th to 17th of October and Nordic Network Meeting (NNM) in Odense (Denmark) from 18th to 21st of November. At the AGM in Helsinki the number of Board Members was reduced from seven to five. The following four people were elected at the AGM in Helsinki as the Board of ESN International: Zsofi Honfi, president, Pascal Gemperli, vice president, Giuseppe Lugano, network administrator and Stefan Jaeger, regular member of the Board. The fifth board member was elected at the CNR meeting of Debrecen (May 2004); Nick Andries, NR of Belgium was elected as treasurer of ESN International. In September, at the CNR meeting of Tallinn, the CNR moved a vote of no confidence to the president, Zsofi Honfi, who had practically waned in the atmosphere with no trace left behind. As a result, the Board reshuffled internally and Pascal Gemperli was elected as president and Giuseppe Lugano as vice-president. Stefan Jaeger agreed to be the network administrator. To fill the vacant place, Merilyn Keskula, NR of Estonia, was elected as regular board member. Due to the lack of time due to his new job, Stefan Jaeger couldn’t contribute and participate to most meetings, so the CNR
A partnership was launched with Petrus Communications: Kristof van Thomme, former ESN Int. Board member did an internship with them during 2004 and brought ESN in touch with PC. Before summer 2004 Pascal Gemperli went to Paris to meet with Kirsten Williamson, Managing Director of PC in order to negotiate our cooperation. After some further emails and phone calls they fixed an agreement so that PC would pay 500 Euro per quarter year for advertisement on www.esn.org with a link to a further page containing more information about the advertised organisation. The same principle could also be applied for www.incommon.info. With regard to the ESNcard, it was immediately clear that it would constitute probably one of the most important projects of ESN. For the first time the CNR approved to have one common card and a fixed price of 0.85 Euro per card. The first issue of 6’650 cards was printed in beginning of September 2004 and distributed as follows: Czech Rep. 1‘400 Spain 1‘350 Belgium 1‘000 Switzerland 1‘000 France 300 Board 250 ESN Aalborg, Denmark 200 cards Austria 1’400
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