International Board Updates

This report aims to briefly outline the content covered in the meeting, with extra details added where seen relevant for ESN Russia members and sections.

Brief background;

· Each year, the Council of National Representatives (CNR) meets with the International Board (IB) of ESN International 6 times, to talk about a variety of topics. This meeting had an emphasis on various discussions and also the election of committee chairs, the new CNR Administrator, and the new CNR Secretary. It took place in Krakow, Poland from the 5th^th – 8^th June 2014.

· The ESN Russia attendee at the CNR was:

o National Representative – Daria Temkina

o Guest – Alexander Kozlenok

· Thirty-six ESN countries were represented during the CNR, either personally or via vote delegation. Only ESN Cyprus was completely absent from the meeting having failed to delegate their vote.

· If you have any questions regarding the CNR, please do not hesitate to contact russia@esn.org

Thursday 5th June

Thursday was arrival day as per usual, with the OC of the event kindly putting on a great pick-up service for all participants where one of their volunteers would meet us at our arrival destination and help show us how to get to the hostel. They then organised a walking tour around the city with some really interesting historical facts about the buildings. Later we had a brief opening ceremony at the castle, followed by a relaxed evening before the start of plenaries the next day.

Friday 6th June

International Board Updates

· The current Secretary, Virginie, is leaving in July. The new Secretary, Emanuela del Savio is currently in the transition period.

· President: A lot of external representation.

o Learning from BEST about how they run and streamline their training events, and they might give us an insight to how they run their online systems.

o Also considering different ways of fundraising that he heard about from other organisations.

o And some updates in programs : EVA , Story, ESNSurvey and ICE.

· Vice-President: Management of internal events, network care, and meetings with Responsible Party.

o They will probably keep the regional coordinators of Responsible Party and possibly create a project leader to head the regional coordinators team.

· Treasurer: Mainly working on ESNcard and partnerships.

· Communication manager: The old intern is in the transition period with the incoming one, social media promotion of various projects, and a lot of work with the Mov’in Europe team.

· Web Project Administrator (WPA) : New galaxy roles and wiki permissions. Online secret voting and voting proposal (change a process of voting, its will be possible to sections of country will see for what their NR was voting. put voting device at cellphone).

• Strategies and changes. Idea: progress is difficult to monitor, need for more strategic approach, strategy, (document outlining), progress report- monitoring of the actions, more strategic approach to project.
• Streamlining Board Position

+ Best practice sharing, more natural development within organizations, simplifications for Internal and External

- adaptability to different situations in different countries.

ESNcard

There are persistent registration problems on the website, but they are definitely working on getting this fixed as soon as possible. As ESN’s 25^th anniversary will be occurring in 2014, they have developed a new design for the rear of the ESNcard, which features the “25 year anniversary” logo (below left). They also

Outcome: Take a look at the discounts your students can get with their ESNcards at esncard.org

At the end of September all participants ESN Russia will be able to purchase cards from sections representatives. All information about discounts in Russia will be presented in social media and official sites.

Evening

In the evening, we had a tram party. Basically, the OC had hired out a tram that goes around the city and it was fitted with club-style lighting, sound systems etc., which was a lot of fun! Everybody really

appreciated the initiative of the OC to surprise us with new concepts for the social programme rather than the standard model of just visiting a club night after night.

Saturday 7th June

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