Mobility, Education and Employability in the European Union by David Cairns Ewa Krzaklewska Valentina Cuzzocrea & Airi-Alina Allaste

Author:David Cairns, Ewa Krzaklewska, Valentina Cuzzocrea & Airi-Alina Allaste
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Such a position illustrates the fact that ESN has established a standard model of practicing an Erasmus exchange for undergraduates. This extends beyond social activities into working in volunteer groups in local communities, an activity that while still exceptional, has been growing in popularity.3

Looking at recent developments it is worth noting the engagement of ESN with the civic dimension of stays, encouraging Erasmus students to contribute more actively to their new local community. Exemplifying this trend is SocialErasmus , an ESN project which aims to involve Erasmus students in volunteering during their mobility experiences. Through this project ESN hope that the international experience of young people abroad will be enriched with a better appreciation of other societies’ problems, through being given an opportunity to work on the solutions.4 Organized activities include picking up garbage, planting trees, walking dogs from a local shelter, visiting schools and kindergartens to give talks about their country, meeting with senior citizens, blood donations and participating in a diverse range of charity events. Preliminary analysis of outcomes from this project shows that certain students really value this new experience as it allows them to enter new zones in the local culture and do things they would never have been able to organize themselves:

The local ESN organised a meeting with the elderly in the elderly home—this I would normally not do […]. I would not go to such institution and say ‘Hello, I came to talk with you’. Different activities—walking dogs in the shelter, some charity collections. (Ewelina, Polish Erasmus student in Spain)

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