ESN Galaxy

The Erasmus Student Network (ESN), a non-profit international student organisation that fosters student mobility in higher education under the principle of ‘students helping students’ has created a webbased platform called ‘ESN Galaxy’. This platform based on the new Web2.0 technology brings together all the sections of the network allowing them to communicate and share information real time. News from local sections are automatically collected from local websites and displayed on the central one. All local websites contain both ‘community information’ (every kind of content that makes the community stronger: forums, guestbook, photos, etc...) as well as ‘helpful information’ (useful information with helping purpose: housing system, job offer, information about the host city, etc.)

Centralising all information allows exchange students to immediately have an overview of what is going on in the network and they can, for example, look for accommodation or get information on their host country. ESN Galaxy also supports local sections by provision of web-based services. (Source: Boomans, V., Krupnik, S., Krzaklewska E. & S. Lanzilotta (2008)

Generation Mobility – Results of ESN Survey 2007. 2008, Erasmus Student Network AISBL, Brussels.)

Website: http://galaxy.esn.org/

Contact details: Marketa Tokova, ESN