ESN Italia

ESN Italia is the Italian network of University Associations that are part of the Erasmus Student Network International, a Pan-European network founded in Copenhagen in 1990 to promote student mobility and create an information and support service provided voluntarily by students, and directed to students leaving or arriving with a Socrates/ERASMUS grant.

ESN Italy was officially born on October 22, 1994 on the initiative of the members of the oldest Italian sections (Siena, Parma, Pavia, Milan, Trento, Bologna, Genoa) interested in creating a coherence of intentions and a coordination of activities that would reproduce on a national level the organization of the largest international network..

What are its objectives?

ESN Italy, as an Italian network of voluntary, non-political and non-denominational university associations, which offer their services to foreign students hosted at Italian universities and to Italian institutions interested in exchange programs, is itself a free non-profit, apolitical, non-denominational association, which pursues all the objectives expressed in the Statute and in the Guidelines of the International Network of which it is part. Therefore it aims to promote the mobility of university students in Europe:

  • Providing a welcoming and advisory service to foreign students hosted for a period of study at an Italian university (through a service ranging from finding accommodation to tutoring and organizing cultural and recreational events that promote the integration of the foreign student in the local university environment;
  • Developing a systematic evaluation of the programs themselves, through the experience of the students who have participated in them.

How ESN Italy operates

Through the activity of the Italian sections, whose management and ordinary administration is entrusted at the local level, on the model of the organization of the National and International Associations, to a Steering Committee, composed of President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and Local Representative, who operate in agreement with the Assembly of Members. ESN members meet periodically at local, national and international level.

Who can be a member of an ESN association?

All students interested in exchange programs and of course former Socrates/ERASMUS students returning from a period of study abroad. In fact, with their experience, they are best suited to provide help, advice and useful information to those who are planning to leave on an exchange program or are arriving from a foreign country. They are also the most suitable for the evaluation of the exchange project in which they took part.

Where is ESN Italy?

ESN Italy currently has 53 active sections and some in the process of restructuring. The active sections offer regular contact hours in the offices made available by the International Relations Offices or Foreign Relations Offices of the University, with which they collaborate. There is one ESN section per University. Opening hours to the public vary according to local needs.