How did we become ESN Mostar Candidate Section?

Since we've been spending our time at home these days, working and socialising from home, we've figured out it would be the best time to belatedly share our Istanbul story.

After a month, we've sorted (maybe not yet completely, but enough to talk about it) our emotions, memories and photos from our first ESN event.

Two of our board members Faris Lavic and Dalila Spahic participated in the event called Council of National Representatives (CNR) where they've presented our ESN candidacy and we've got accepted as a candidate section! We are honoured that we made this first step to become a full member of ESN International and we are grateful for all your love and support ESNers.

It was truly amazing to see how all this functions, to learn so many new things about Erasmus and ESN and to meet all of you, to hear your ideas, stories and experiences. Thank you, each and every one of you, for giving us advice, for listening to our plans and giving us some tips and tricks on how to move forward. You guys are truly inspiring!

CNR Marmara 2020 was held at Marmara University in Istanbul during February (13.-16.02.). Marmara University is one of the oldest educational institutions and is the only multilingual university in Turkey. The University has over 50 000 students (over 1500 foreign students from 73 countries are studying at the institution) and more than 4000 academic and administrative staff. Marmara University has 12 campuses, with one of them serving as a hospital. According to the statistics published by the EU Education and Youth Programmes Center, Marmara University is one of the top 3 choices among the foreign students who have applied to the exchange programs offered in Turkey.

Thank you for supporting your students (and all of us).

Another thank you goes to volunteers of ESN Marmara for making this happen. Thank you for always being there through this event, for the beautiful welcome, for the trips you've organised and for wearing those heart-warming smiles all the time!

Third and the biggest thank you goes to our wonderful Olivia Parczyk from Germany, who was our mentor (ESN mum) since we started filling in that application. Thank you for being so positive, for encouraging us to do what we thought was partially impossible. Thank you for your kind words, for your love, trust and your patience. 

And, in the end, biiiiig CONGRATULATIONS to ESN Chisinau for joining Moldova as 42nd ESN country! You girls were incredible! Best of luck in your future work!!

P.S. Without UniCredit Bank Mostar we wouldn't be able to have this story to tell; so big shout-out for them and thank you!

In case you want to contact us, you can easily do that over our Facebook page and Instagram profile.
You'll be able to recognise us and our events by these two photos. Do not hesitate to join us!

Radionica: "Menadžment međunarodnih projekata: iskustva koordiantora"

U srijedu, 11.03. u Sudnici za simulovano suđenje je održana radionica Menadžment međunarodnih projekata: iskustva koordinatora.

Moderator, Geert de Lepeleer, Šef internacionalizacije Tehničko tehnološkog fakulteta, KU Leuven je prisutnima govorio o tome kako napisati uspješnu aplikaciju, šta treba izbjeći prilikom apliciranja i na šta se treba fokusirati kako bi jednom odobreni projekat i bio uspješno implementiran.

Radionica je održana u sklopu implementacije projekta KA 107 Erasmus+ akcije međunarodne kreditne mobilnosti, kojeg Univerzitet „Džemal Bijedić“ u Mostaru implemntira sa KU Leuven iz Belgije.

Mirza Humo - Three days in Madrid

Mirza Humo
Age: 23
Home University: "Dzemal Bijedic" University of Mostar
Host University: University of Almeria, Almeria, Spain
Exchange period: 2019./2020.

"Tek nekoliko sati pred put i trodnevnu posjetu, odlučili smo da se sami upustimo u pustolovine. Brzo smo sredili smještaj i putničke karte. Posjeta je nadmašila očekivanja. Putovali smo vozom. Od Almerije do Madrida smo se vozili 7 sati, a nazad 6 sati. Žao mi je što sam se sam morao vraćati u Almeriju, jer su kolege morale neplanski nazad kući u Sarajevo, ali tih 6 sati je bilo jedno od najljepših trenutaka mog života zbog vožnje kroz ruralne predjele Španije. Kolege isto kao i ja borave 5 mjeseci u Almeriji zbog razmjene studenata. Kolege su s Ekonomskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Vožnja po smjeru traje od 6-7 sati, a karta košta 25€ po smjeru uz popust za više osoba. Smještaj smo platili 15€ po osobi za jednu noć bez popusta u hotelu u centru. Prevoz i smještaj je koštao 90€ po osobi. Posjetili smo kraljevsku palaču, kristalnu palaču, trg Sol, trg Majork, Retrio park, Congreso de Diputados. Svaki dio grada je posebno lijep za sebe i nemoguće je odlučiti koji je dio ljepši od kojeg, niti je ikako moguće izabrati najlepše mjesto u gradu koje je obavezno za posjetiti. Sve je obavezno za posjetiti."

Pogledajte slike i pročitajte više na Mirzinom blogu: https://www.mirzinputopis.com/post/tri-dana-u-madridu

EQ8: Nebo nije granica!

Članovi ESN Mostar - Candidate Section su učestvovali u jednodnevnom seminaru sa studente koji je organizovala ekipa Svakog Studenta. Seminar je održan u hotelu Mostar, 07.03.2020.

Govornici na seminaru su bila 3 američka biznismena, te prestavnik Amplius electronicsa Marin Bevanda.

Značenje liderstva, kakvo ponašanje lider treba da ima u privatnom i poslovnom životu, koji su zadaci lidera, te emocionalna inteligencija su samo neke od tema koje su se obrađivale.

Marin je podijelio svoju priču sa prisutnima koja je dokaz da se i u BiH može uspjeti, ukoliko se dovoljno zalažemo za svoje ciljeve.

Dan poslije, u prostorijama organizacije Svaki Student održane su radionice sa govornicima o izradi projekata.

Zajedno sa našim Erasmus studentima pridružili smo se i "Game Night"-u.

Hvala vam za super seminar i na divnom druženju!! 

Svaki Student Mostar je nezavisna kršćanska organizacija koja želi izgraditi okruženje kojem mladi ljudi i studenti mogu pripadati, vjerovati i postati ljudi kakvi su kreirani da budu. U Sarajevu djeluju od 2001., a u Mostaru od 2015.
Podučavaju engleski jezik, organizuju akademske seminare, socijalne događaje i eskurzije nekoliko puta godišnje. “Svaki student” je dio udruženja “Fokus BiH”.

The International Women's Day with ESN Mostar

🇬🇧 Today our girls got a chance to do a zipline! 😍
Wonderful people from Zip Line Stari Most provided a free fly for each one of us in order to celebrate the International Women's Day! 🌹
🔸Fun fact: More women did it since this zipline was officially oppened! 💪
🔸Zipline is 200m long (a bit more).
🔸It connects 2 bridges in Mostar.
🔸These guys are amazing! (Thank you one more time!! ❤)
🔸We had real Sunday-Funday!!
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🇧🇦 Danas su naše cure imale priliku da se spuste na zipline-u! 😍
Divni ljudi iz ekipe Zip Line Stari Most su obezbijedili besplatan "let" za svaku od nas kako bismo zajedno proslavili Međunarodni Dan Žena! 🌹
Hvala vam još jednom!! <3
🔸Zanimljiva činjenica: Više žena je isprobalo ovu adrenalinsku atrakciju od kako je zvanično počela sa radom! 💪
🔸Zipline je nešto duži od 200m i spaja dva mosta u našem gradu.
🔸Ekipa je ljubazna, profesionalna, nasmijana i spremna da vam pomogne sa svim!
Nama je ovo bila izuzetno zabavna nedjelja, a vama preporučujemo da ih posjetite što prije!

Sadzida Tinjak - her experience of being an exchange student

Sadzida Tinjak

Age: 24

Home University: “Dzemal Bijedic” University of Mostar

Host University: Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Exchange period: 2016/2017

If you ever thought about exploring and understanding diversity which this world offers and make acquaintances or even built beautiful friendships.

If you want to travel and find new beautiful places.

If you are curious about how it would be to study at another university and have more sources of knowledge through a different approach to your field.

These three, for me, were strong pros for applying for the Erasmus exchange in Gliwice.

Hm, Gliwice?!
It's a small city in Poland near Krakow. That's all I knew in the beginning.
We went through the process of application and five of us were accepted. I was lucky to make this move together with my four colleagues and also friends. Then paperwork, choosing the best travel option, accommodation, packing and overcoming the fear of the unknown. We were living as one big family and we were there for each other all the time. Five Bosnians enrolled in a new semester in Poland with students from all around the world.

We had orientation days and got all the information needed about the city, studies, programme and met with ESN people and our coordinator.

It's not easy to shape this experience with words, I decided to shape it through following - thank you, Erasmus - thank you for bringing amazing people in my life Monica from San Salvador (and later owner of first Salvador passport seen in our bus to Bosnia), Diego from Mexico, Gonzalo from Uruguay, Tolga and Yakup from Turkey, Jannah from Tadzhikistan, Soeraj And Ranish from Surinam (sorry guys if I am still writing it wrong), Davit from Georgia, Anahit from Armenia, Nol from Albania, only group bigger than ours eight people from Serbia, a lot of polish people, Hanan from Gana, Khadijah from Jemen, Mohanned from Libya, Peter from Kenya ...

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to learn about other cultures, mindsets, perspectives, about engineering, discipline, how to be independent and do things by myself, how to make lunch and not burn it, how to make your scholarship last to the end of the month (ok last two partially learned), thank you for giving me a chance to travel through Poland and places in Europe I always wanted to visit, all trips and events organised by ESN, understanding polish- dziekuje bardzo Ola (even though the first approach gave me a headache, to many consonants next to each other!!)

Thank you, Erasmus, for the beautiful time and rich experience.

Erasmus will touch your life gently but significantly and later you'll feel that touch as a tailwind telling you -built something with a material I gave you.