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The Netherlands - National week on studying abroad From 4 to 11 October 2000 the Nuffic, National Agency (NA) for the Netherlands, organised a promotion week on studying abroad. This week was the launching of the new national campaign, called ’WilWeg’, which means ’wanna go’. In the promotion week, in which also Socrates promoters took part, a new website (www.wilweg.nl) and a virtual information centre with all relevant information and links have been set up. The new ’Vagant’, an information booklet for studying abroad, has been also prepared. The memorable aspect of the ’WilWeg’- week has been a big yellow American school bus full of promotion- and information material. All higher education institutions in the Netherlands were asked to promote studying abroad during this week as well. Many organised an international week or day for their students with information markets, presentations, forums, speeches. Dutch Socrates Promoters participated in two International Days during this week. They organised a presentation at the University of Maastricht about Socrates Programme for local students. On October 11 they also organised the Utrecht ’WilWeg’ Day together with Utrecht University, the Hogeschool of Utrecht and the Utrecht School of Arts. The event has been promoted through 10.000 personal invitations sent to second and third year students and included also an information market and an international cultural programme. Additionally, an exhibition of photos made by exchange students during their time abroad and a theatre play about studying abroad took place. Femke Wegman and Patrick de Looff, SP Netherlands Promoting Socrates Iceland - Variation of Information Channels I did my first promoting event on a “University Day” in Iceland on April 9th, where all HEIs in Iceland introduced their programs. During the summer months I used the time to prepare some promotional material and to establish some contacts with people within institutions where I could do presentations. On September 8th I took part in the launching of Socrates II in Iceland as one of the few students. In the following week I made a presentation on Erasmus to students at University of Iceland. I wrote twice about student mobility programs in the student newspaper at University of Iceland. On October 17th my article on possibilities for students through Socrates II was published in “Morgunbladid”, the most read national newspaper in Iceland. In October and November I did presentations in various higher education institutions in Iceland. On January 25th 2001 I promoted Socrates at the “International Day” at University of Iceland. Being a Socrates promoter made me more aware of matters regarding student mobility and gave me more motivation to work with these matters within my student union. I used the opportunity to lobby for a faster process of the implementation of a diploma supplement as one part of the Bologna declaration. I also encouraged the University of Iceland to offer more courses for mobility students and to adobt an international policy of the university. Socrates on the Move has created a great experience for us the Socrates promoters to work in a European student team. The workshops in Brussels in March and in Naples in December were very useful as well as the exchange of information through e-mails during the promotional period. After the Socrates on the Move project I feel that we students are able to and should be given the opportunity to participate in promoting, evaluating and improving the Socrates Programme. Fanney Karlsdottir, SP Iceland 17
Promoting Socrates Sweden: Co-operation Socrates Promoters, National Socrates Agency and Higher Education Institutions It was clear from the start that there would be a lot of support from the NSA and the HEIs in Sweden. It turned out that all the promotion trips, travels and subsistence of the Socrates Promoters were paid by the NSA and the HEIs. There were presentations of SOTM in national launching events, national meetings of international co-ordinators of the HEIs and info-days and seminars of all the relevant Swedish HEIs. One sign of the close co-operation and partnership with the NSA is that I am going to go to the meeting of the national Socrates steering group and give a final report evaluation on the SOTM I. The awareness has really been raised within the HEIs and one could consider me as a SOTMcelebrity in Sweden. Mobility people in HEIs know me wherever I go. This shows the needs that the HEIs and NSAs have to reach the students with information and also highlights a problem with this task; to know what the students are interested in and what information should be given. The bodies recognised the need for students to promote Socrates to other students and welcomed these events with open arms and supported them strongly. As a Socrates promoter, I have been given the opportunity to share my experiences with other students around the country. As I have been studying abroad myself three times I have made lots of mistakes (and some successes) that I could now share with others. I have been asked questions about everything from very technical aspects to “what’s the weather like there”. I have also been interviewed several times by magazines, radio and TV-channels about the project. Jacob Henricson, SP in Sweden Poland: Socrates Action Week 2000 in Warsaw 18 AEGEE has a tradition of being active in the field of Socrates Programme. Socrates Action Weeks and Days are a part of this tradition. This autumn the Socrates Action Week in Warsaw was prepared by the Socrates Working Group, which was launched as a supporting group for the Warsaw Socrates Promoter. The Warsaw Socrates Action Week aimed not only at presenting Socrates Programme, but also other Community programmes – such as Leonardo and Youth. The presentations were accompanied by stands at the major universities and a big Socrates Party. Local and national coordinators of the progarmmes took part in this event, accompanied by in-coming Erasmus students and students who have already been on Erasmus exchanges. All in all, a highly informative and popular event was prepared telling Polish students how to benefit from the Community programmes and encouraging them to do so. Putting it together in numbers Socrates Action Week in Warsaw looks as follows: 7 presentations, 9 days of stands, hundreds of leaflets – all this at 4 major universities, where we managed to reach more than 1000 students, through the work of 20 people co-ordinated by Socrates promoter. The student mobility situation in Poland is difficult, but, I guess it doesn’t differ much from what is happening in other Eastern participants of the Socrates programme. Mobility is extremely popular amongst students although information about the mobility programmes remains poorly spread. The biggest obstacle remains the budget of the Socrates programme in Poland, which prevents all those who wish to study abroad from fulfilling their dreams. Tomek Helbin, SP Poland
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