National Platform Bratislava 2012

National Platform – the supreme executive body of Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Slovakia – meeting took place at Vysoká škola ekonómie a manažmentu a verejnej správy v Bratislave, in Bratislava on 17th – 18th of October 2012. This meeting is held twice a year. Every ESN Slovak republic’s section is represented by its members, who present here their activities. In addition, exchange of information concerning ESN on national level and approving of proposals for its further operations takes place here as well.

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Meeting had been attended by representatives of 10 sections of ESN – ESN UNIZA Žilina, ESN EUBA Bratislava, ESN Comenius University Bratislava, ESN Košice, ESN UMB Banská Bystrica, ESN UNIAG Nitra, ESN PEU Bratislava, ESN UNIPO Prešov, ESN UKF Nitra, OC section ESN VŠEMVS Bratislava and 1 applying section – ESN UCM Trnava, which had been officially accepted at the end of the whole NP as new member of ESN Slovakia.

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On the first day, we were honored to welcome guests such as, rector of Vysoká škola ekonómie a manažmentu a verejnej správy v Bratislave, Mrs. prof. Ing. Viera Cibáková CSc, chairman of Student Council for Higher Education of Slovak Republic, Mr. Juraj Tilesch, president of Erasmus Student Network, Mrs. Tania Berman and deputy executive director of SAIA, Mr. Mgr. Michal Fedák.

This NP was, like the whole ESN, held in international spirit. This was thanks to vast amount of international guests, who accepted our invitation. Specifically – National Representative (NR) ESN Czech Republic Barbora Pečivová, NR ESN Poland Julia Trawińska, NR ESN Hungary Dorottya Galtz, NR ESN Ireland Kenny Ho, NR ESN Turkey Kadir Keles, National President ESN Austria Paul Vetschera, National Board Member ESN Czech Republic Alena Růžičková, National Treasurer ESN Poland Krzsystof Adam-Motyka and National Coordinator of SocialErasmus ESN Czech republic Renča Polohová and others.

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Program was commenced by President of ESN Slovakia Mirko Hajnoš’s opening speech, after which, other speakers continued. Afterwards, National Board presented the current information and national coordinators ESN followed, After short break, each section had a presentation of their activities for the last semester. This concluded the agenda of the first day.

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Next day started by forming of Statutes and Standing Orders of ESN Slovakia. Each points had been discussed, explained, clarified, converted into wanted form, which had been approved afterwards. Meanwhile, our international guests went to sightseeing tour around the Bratislava.

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In the afternoon, program consisted mostly of workshops, from which, all of us took valuable information. Participators could choose from various workshops, for example: Conflict Management (Eva Gregorová), Volunteering (Mirko Hajnoš, Janka Reháková), Satellite & Galaxy (Andrej Macák, Pavlí Sládková), Effective Communication (Eva Gregorová), Social Erasmus (Mirka Švábova), Fundraising & ESN Cards (Janka Zbonková, Mária Hrdličková) Advantages & HowTo of Knowledge Management (wiki) (Pavlí Sládková), Responsible party (Markéta Ťoková) and Eduk8 (Dorottya Glatz).

Next came the presentation of projects of ESN Slovakia (Education route of Erasmus, Trip2SomeWhere…) and the applying section ESN UCM Trnava as well. ESN Košice had applied and had won being the next OC of upcoming NP.

 

Winter Student Games 2012 evaluation had been presented on the third day of NP, which we had organized along with the Student Council for Higher Education of Slovak Republic. After that, program continued with presentations of our international guests about their ESN sections, approval of new Statutes and Standing Orders of ESN Slovakia and discussion about the future organizators of NP. Very important item on the agenda was expressing the support in Mirko Hajnoš, actual President of ESN Slovakia, candidate for post President of ESN AISBL 2012/2013. Voting was successful in all its points and Mirko Hajnoš received support from all of us.

The highlight of the program became discussion about Erasmus, as well as, about the whole ESN with the CEO of Higher Education, from Ministry of Education, science, research and sport of the Slovak Republic, Mr. prof. Ing. Peter Plavčan, CSc.

In the afternoon only few participators could remain and those had option to participate in the second round of workshops like: How can ESN help you become a star (Janka Zbonková), How to create a poster (Yannis Dimitriadis) and Motivation in ESN (Kadir Keles).

Whole conference was held in pleasant working spirit as we have already hinted and for that we can thank our great OC team, who managed to have everything under control, ensured smooth run of this meeting and refreshments. We would like to thank: Janka Gasperová (Head of OC), Miroslav Janek (Accommodation Coordinator) and Lenka Ďurišová (Social Program coordinator).