Mission and Vision were discussed and approved in the AGM Krakow, March 2006
The Values are the result of the Corporate Identity project developed in the period September-December 2005.
Mission
"The mission of ESN is to foster student mobility in Higher Education under the principle of SHS - Students Helping Students"
Vision
"Erasmus Student Network cooperates with the European Institutions and other relevant bodies and policy makers in the ambitious project of creating and fostering the development of a society based upon mutual knowledge, respect, trust and therefore peace among individuals, groups, communities, peoples and countries.
In this framework and with this purpose, ESN strives for a world were increasingly more young people will be in the condition to access, either by moving or by staying at home, the opportunities of personal growth offered by an international experience in Higher Education.
However, such experience has to be one of quality: this means, that prospective and current exchange students have to be provided with all the necessary information and means for
- choosing the destination that fits at most with their interests and personal development;
- applying properly and in the due time for scholarships and for any other possible financial support, and in any case be granted enough resources for maintaining in the host city the same tenor of living they are used to held in their city of origin;
- being integrated in the society and the culture of the hosting city, also by terms of linguistic tools and social opportunities;
- succeeding in the academic aims of their stay and, once back to the Higher Institution of origin, having their gained knowledge fully and duly recognised, and being reintegrated in the social and academic life;
- evaluating their exchange experience and having their evaluation considered and appreciated by the competent institutions, in order to foster and influence the evolution of the exchange programmes and policies;
- helping, in turn, other students to succeed in their exchange study and in overcoming the same difficulties and challenges they experienced.
- unity in diversity, diversity in the unity
- students helping students
- fun in friendship and respect
- international dimension of the life
- love for Europe as an area of peace and cultural exchange
- openness with tolerance
- cooperation in the integration
Hence, we foresee a world where all the Higher Education Institutions support the principle of students helping students, who therefore find their way to mobility and to internationalisation, and all existing and possible threats and obstacles to mobility are annihilated".
Values
The Values that all ESN Members believe in and work for are
All these aspects are included in Vision, Mission and the new Corporate Design of ESN, developed by Koeweiden Postma in January - March 2006.
