PROJECTS & PARTNERS
Colofon
EDITORIAL
Editors in Chief
Past, present, future
TITEL
Leo Smith Marco La Rosa
Editorial Team:
Joachim Wyssling Justyna Pisera Eva Ntovolou Justyna Marut Rania Chantzopoulou Marco La Rosa Alejandro Rodriguez San José Aleksandra Długokęcka Rosanna Cordaro Sarah Van Hooreweder Ann-Sophie Vanderschueren Arum Sukmawanto Jonathan Desdemoustier Caroline Braibant Leo Smith Monika Lapėnaitė Aušra Balandytė Veeli Oeselg Ladislav Vlcek Nick Andries Amandine Schoffen Carlos Jover Micó Sagrario Losada Marti Alicia Macanás José Campos Barbora Pavlíčková Friederike Herold Tania Berman Ruxandra Birle Katerina Papoutsi
Language editors:
Leo Smith Alicia Macanás Adriana Perez Encinas Maria Kalaentzi Matjaz Dolenc James Warren Martin Moravec
Design and Illustrations: Marco La Rosa Rania Chantzopoulou
Understand and take-up new challenges! by: Joachim Wyssling Since the first ESN section was born in 1989, ESN has made huge steps forward and built a network of more than 350 local sections with Europeanwide projects and activities, meetings and conferences. “Time Travels” will help us to understand better the history of ESN and give us an insight into current activities and projects and the opportunity to imagine our future. In 2011, the ESN History book will be released and I encourage you to take a look and find out more about ESN. You will be able to discover different aspects of our history and with this knowledge be able to build the future of ESN on all levels. Even if ESN was created more than 20 years ago, our network is young compared to recent European History: in 2005 the headquarters moved to Brussels, in the past years, more and more National Boards were created and are contributing with highly dynamic projects to ESN and finally two years ago the network reached 300 sections. I was recently reading the values of ESN, and realized that they are an amazing result of our history, stating that we all have different backgrounds, but share one common aim and goal while enjoying relations based on respect and committing ourselves to volunteering for the benefits of others. This is the “ESN spirit” allowing us to be mobile – also within the network, to discover and explore, to cooperate and to interact, to break borders and thanks to this we live and benefit from the cultural richness of Europe to the utmost and learn to understand and accept others. We need to understand all this, to build all together the future of ESN. Moreover, it is also crucial to identify the challenges of European society in order to give an active contribution and input to the society of tomorrow. Indeed, we have the chance of having a European wide network welcoming and integrating international students, fostering and improving learning mobility and playing an active role on all levels, while facing all together local, regional and European challenges. Take the first step into the future… discover the Time Travels of ESN! And don’t forget, ESN is your network and we are contributing all together to its existence. We wish you all a very good beginning to the year 2011, which will include plenty of continued and new activities, moreover we invite you as well to take the opportunity of the European Year of Volunteering 2011, as this year is specially designed for us volunteers, in order to value current and future volunteers around Europe !!
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The theme of the next issue:
Social&Green