Meet the Board
Meet the Board 2011/2012
By Josefin Svensson
With big shoes to fill they were elected during the AGM in Budapest in the end of March 2011. In the beginning of July they came to Brussels for a tough and intense knowledge transfer week and the 15th it was time for them to stand on their own as the Board of Erasmus Student Network. With the support of the committees, Liaison Officers, CNR, National Boards and most importantly the sections they live ESN 24/7 working for the good of the network. During their presentations infront of the AGM they showed their dedication and motivation and Tania, Katja, Damien, Josefin and Fabian got the trust of the network for a year mandate. When you live and work for an organisation like the Board is doing for the year of their mandate it is important with dedication and a good team. „It‘s great to work with such a dedicated team and to feel the ESN spirit whereever I go“ says Tania. For such and intense experience it is important to have the support of the team. A great source of inspiration for all of the Board Members is the network. ESNers is all countries dedicate a great amount of their time and sometimes their studies or job has to suffer for the good of the network and students. It might be weird to think, but they all live and work together in the so-called capital of Europe, Brussels - a place which offers a unique enviornment close to the EU insitutions and like ESN a wide variety of people from different cultural bakgrounds. Living in the ESN house, working in the ESN office with the same people can sometimes be difficult - we fight sometimes, but most of the time we make up fast again and at the end of the day we are all friends.
Did you know that?
*The Board Members receive an average of 70 emails per day *The Board Members make an average of 3 trips abroad per month *With food, Katja is the most picky person *Damien stayed in the Board for a second year. *Fabian gives out free hugs, „I gave out countless hugs to the whole network, but I am far from done“
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From the top: Fabian Bircher (Switzerland), Damien Lamy-Preto (France), Josefin Svensson (Sweden), Tania Berman (France) and Katja Krohn (Germany). Ironically enough, the house and the office are located on the metro line 5 so that everyday going to the office is litterally going to/on Erasmus.
re the Board Members work together with the secretariat. Along with the general Board tasks there are more specific parts of the jobs that are tied to each position so that each person is an expert in their field.
Part of the job is representation so it requires a lot of travelling, most of the Board Members spent half of Septem- If you want to know more about the ber month abroad. „I love travelling work of the Board, please drop an and if it wasn‘t for all the emails when email to board@esn.org or one of the you come back it would be perfect“ Board Members. says Katja. When the Board is not travelling Tania Berman (France) - President the daily work in BrusKatja Krohn (Germany) - Vice President sels as you might have Damien Lamy-Preto (France) - Treasurer guessed takes place Josefin Svensson (Sweden) - Communication Manager Fabian Bircher (Switzerland) - Web Project Administrator in the ESN office whe-
Board 2011/2012