Dear Erasmus friends!
Today we’d like to share a post by Johann Quassowski: an Erasmus student going to Berlin upcoming semester, and employed by Biodeals.
Are you doing your Erasmus in Germany next semester? If yes, and if you’d like to diversify your diet beyond bratwurst and beer, I recommend Biodeals. Biodeals offers different bio, organic or fair-trade products every week against discounted student-friendly prices.
Sign up for our newsletter in order to receive even more discount on your first purchase.
Party hard, but don’t forget your healthy additions to your student-diet!
Additional information: you’ll need to understand/read some German to order and, so far, we are not delivering outside of Germany.
PS: Johann is going to Berlin next semester. Are you still looking for a roommate? Check out his profile here.
Today we would like to share some different websites with you to buy your books, flights and arrange your student bank account and/or visa card.
For all Erasmus students in Switzerland, check out BOL. Here you can buy your travel guides, study books and way more readings.
Are you planning to go to Warsaw - Poland for your exchange? Book your flight at our partner BravoFly. In case you’re living in Poland and want to fly out to another European country, we recommend eSky for cheap flights.
Erasmus students in Portugal, this might be an interesting website for you guys: www.exit.pt. In case you have some days of and want to check out what more this country has to offer, book your short trip here.
Finally, a recommendation for all Erasmus students in Belgium. During your exchange period in Belgium, you might have a site job to financially support yourself. In most cases Belgium employers request a national bank account to transfer the money to. Have a look here to open a student account and request your Visa card at PNB Paribas-Fortis.
For other special savings, check out our constantly updated student deals!
Erasmate, as you know, is all about helping students find affordable accommodation across Europe. By bringing together people, who currently don’t need their own place with people searching for temporary housing, we help both parties benefit. The sublessor does not pay rent for an empty space, the subtenant gets a room or flat without a long term binding rental contract after paying an enormous amount of money to some agency.
While the housing offers on Erasmate are obviously focused on student needs and budgets, a similar situation exists in many European cities with regard to renting larger appartments and flats. That’s why a fellow from Munich, Germany, has come up with a new way of how he wants to find his perfect flat without paying fees to an agency in the range of ~5000 Euros!
Through the website stattmakler.de (which can roughly be translated with ‘instead of a real estate agent’) Alexander is gathering tips and advice from people about flats that match his needs. For every valuable hint he gets, Alexander donates 5 Euros to charity. In addition, everyone recommending a place or a new way of finding Alexander his dream home, enters a raffle to win an original Apple iPad (UMTS/64GB)!
A great idea to avoid paying an outrages amount of money to an agent, who does hardly more than just show you around in a place that isn’t even their own. With his website, Alexander will most likely find a nicer flat and very certainly at lower costs, so if you happen to know someone with a free 4-5 room appartment in Munich, give Alexander a hint and maybe you are soon the happy owner of that iPad
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We were happy to hear that Erasmate was covered on immobilienportale.com last week. It is good to see Erasmate not only on the radar of university and start-up related media, but now also digging into the real estate press.
Happy about this new media attention, we launched a press page on Erasmate.com! In the future you will find all new articles about us there and can already browse through past coverages.
Mates,
On this very first day of July, we would like to share some great news with you!
Over the last time we have been working on Search Engine Optimization to climb the Google ladder. As you probably recognize of your own search behaviour, you’ll barely check second search result pages. We are happy to inform you about the fact that all hard working helped Erasmate showing up at the fourth position once people search for Erasmus Housing.
Not only internally it is going well for Erasmate, also externally interesting things are happening. Some days ago, the EU Commission announced that more EU students than ever travelled abroad for studies and company placements. With a total of 198.600 exchange students in academic year 2008/2009 we can celebrate an 8.7% increase compared to the year before. For more detailed information we would like to recommend you to read this article .
Enjoy the great day!
Your Erasmates
A couple of months ago, we started our Erasmate Tag ‘n Fly competition. Every few days, we uploaded a new photo of a European city to our Facebook page and asked our fans to tag their mates.
By doing so, they got the chance to win one of 3 prizes: an Erasmate shirt, a Lonely Planet travel guide, and as grant prize a flight voucher to the city they were tagged in!
We have now drawn the winners and published the announcement video. If you participated in the competition, check out now if you are a winner, or just watch the video to enjoy some Erasmate fun: watch video!
We would like to share how we experienced the 18th of May. The day that we pitched Erasmate to a jury of 5 members including demissionair minister of Finance of The Netherlands, Jan Kees de Jager.
Getting the task to explain the most relevant things of your business in one minute sounds easier than it eventually is. What to tell and what not? How do you start and how do you finish? Choosing the right vocabulary to impress, how to put focus on specific items and keeping your story interesting. These were some of the tasks during our preparation. Read more »
Dear friends, family and other readers! In short: Dear Mates!
Erasmate managed to get some press attention over the last month again…UM Magazine ‘Observant‘ wrote about our LIOF yeah competition and the fact that we’re at the first place!
Furthermore, we were picked up by a blog called ‘BetaBuzz‘. They wrote a very extensive and informative article about Erasmate. Thank you for this BetaBuzz!
These kind of press releases help significantly to spread the word about Erasmate and make it a useful and well working website for students. As said before, if you know any journalists, please contact us and we will be happy to get in touch with them!
Have a good day friends!
Over the past days, the erupting volcano Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has caused almost the entire European air traffic to be shut down. Finally, planes are back in the air now and travelling is again possible.
For participants of the Erasmus program, flying nowadays is of great importance as a means to get to their chosen destination. Hence, Erasmate is celebrating the return to European mobility.
We will be giving away flight vouchers to a European capital to the lucky winner of our Tag ‘n Fly lottery!
Start tagging your mates on our Facebook Fanpage now and check out the details of the game at www.erasmate.com/tag-n-fly
Hi Mates!
Over the past week we have made two promotional video’s. The first video gives a general overview of what Erasmate does; the second promotional video gives you an insight into the application process for an Erasmus programme and problems that might occur.
Do you think you can do better than this or are you just interested in making another nice promo video for Erasmate? Contact us!
Marketing | Erasmate Team | 
November 30, 2010 5:51 pm | 
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