Survey 2008: Project Description

ESNSurvey 2008: Exchanging Cultures

Every year, ESN launches a survey that explores the most important issues concerning academic and non-academic mobility. It is one of the biggest and most successful projects of ESN International - last year more than 8,000 students responded to the online survey. Through the gathered opinions of the students, ESN gets a better insight in what students experience and this allows us to represent better the students' real needs.

The 2008 edition of the ESNSurvey is launched. The main topic of this year is “Exchanging Cultures”.

As one of the core objectives of any exchange is to discover foreign cultures, integrate with local people and try to adapt to new cultural conditions, we think it is interesting to see if these processes really take place during a study period in a foreign country. Furthermore, we analyze the impacts of an experience abroad on the personal abilities to overcome cultural differences and to benefit from the new cultural environment. The survey deals with topics such as cultural shock and its social implications, integration with local culture and people, intercultural skills learned etc.

To enter the on-line ESNSurvey 2008, click here!
The survey is open from June till August 2008.

Please answer 4 more questions from our partner UNICA (Network of Universities from the Capitals of Europe) and help support the After Student Mobility phase with ICT, click here!

For universities

If you want to join this ESN project, the only thing to do is to forward our e-mail (available upon request at secretariat@esn.org) to your present exchange students and, if possible, to publish information about the ESNSurvey on your university website.

All the students who fully complete the questionnaire will have a chance to participate in a draw out of which 5 students will be chosen to be later mentioned in the Survey report with their name and picture as supporters of the survey.

After closure of the ESNSurvey in September, we can provide each university – upon request – the survey results coming exclusively from their students. In this way the survey can give a different point of view of the work of the university towards their students and positive results can eventually be used to show to an interested third party.

For National Agencies and educational associations

If your organisation or National Agency wants to become a supporter of the ESNSurvey project, we would kindly ask you to:

• express your willingness to participate in the project at secretariat@esn.org
• forward the email about ESNSurvey 2008 to your members and to all students you are in contact with
• publish the information about the ESNSurvey project on your website and in your newsletter if you have one

To thank you for the support, we will publish your logo on the ESN website in the section of ESNSurvey Partners as well as mention your organisation in the printed booklet with the report on the ESNSurvey results. Additionally, you will receive a free copy of the printed booklet.