ESN engages with thousands of mobile, educated, and highly motivated young people all around Europe. We can offer your company or organisation access to this unique customer base, branding, visibility and affiliation with our pan-European organisation and also the opportunity to attract a future workforce of internationally minded young, skilled professionals.

ESN offers flexible and customisable partnership agreements that will fit with your company’s aims, culture and practices.

 

Why work with ESN?

  • A link to the international young people - unique services and opportunities

Our national aim is to offer services to our sections that they can provide to the youngsters that they represent. Our sections aim to provide a smooth transition and integration into the host country for young people by proposing various activities and offering services to them for their period abroad.

Help us offer the best services and opportunities to the thousands of international students that every year choose Portugal as their second home.
 

  • A new image for your company

Being a partner of ESN demonstrates your involvement in the future of Europe and in the youth of Europe. Supporting ESN is an expression of interest in the possibilities of young people and the added value they bring with them after a successful mobility period. Providing financial, professional or tangible support for the daily activities of a volunteer youth organisation likewise creates a positive public image for your company and brings social recognition and a long-term professional reputation for your brand.

  • Join thousands of partners in the ESNcard project!

The ESNcard project, launched in 2004, aims to create an international youth card for all mobility programme’s participants and ESN volunteers. The ESNcard gives the possibility to benefit from unique partnerships, offers and discounts on the local, national and international level. In 2012, there were 120.000 ESNcards distributed to young people around Europe. The ESNcard is used by over 500 ESN sections in 40 countries.
In 2012, ESN created a website for all ESNcard holders to access discounts and deals offered by partners of ESN. ESNcard.org is a search engine that gathers almost 2.000 discounts from international, national and local deals around Europe. Furthermore, the website is a membership database for all 120.000 ESNcard holders. You can see the website at the following address: ESNcard.org

Names like Ryanair, FlixBus, The Economist, Vodafone, Logitech and Revolut have already joined ESN and are helping us to provide the best experience for international students!

 

What do we look for in a partner?

ESN is looking for partners that are international in their outlook, scope and operations.
We would like to cooperate with companies and organisations that see value in having international, multicultural and multilingual teams working together, much like ESN.
Furthermore, we are looking for partners that wish to support the work of ESN and thus, international mobility, educational exchange and intercultural dialogue.

 

Disclaimer

ESN (Erasmus Student Network) is an independent non-partisan, non-political and nonprofit international association which operates under Belgium law. Our partners support us mostly on a project base agreement. Their support is strictly related to our project and services deployment towards our network and International students and not to our organisation.
The views expressed in our projects, research, surveys, articles and documentaries do not reflect the views of our partners.

 

Ready to become a partner? Send us an e-mail to ESNcard@esnportugal.org!