When thinking about Finland, what comes to most people’s minds first are saunas, reindeers in snowy winters, and endless midsummer nights! And, well, it is true, those are all characteristics of Finland, which you are about to experience when choosing for the land of the thousand lakes as your Erasmus destination!
While many people go to the University of Helsinki for their exchange period, we would like to point out that there are more universities that are happy to welcome Erasmus students! From the 10 multidisciplinary universities of Finland, two have now joined Erasmate. Both Jyväskylän Yliopisto and Turun Yliopisto (here’s your first Finnish lesson: Yliopisto = University!) decided to become Erasmate partners to help their students find accommodation abroad and offer rooms for their incoming students from all over Europe.
If you are going on Erasmus to Finland, create your search profile for a room now or browse the list of available accommodation.
Nauti Suomi!
In our ongoing efforts to become the best website to find your student accommodation across Europe, we are happy to welcome more new partners.
After announcing 4 new university partners last week, we are now proud to help students leaving and going to Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU), Charles University in Prague (CZ), Université de Bourgogne in Dijon (FR) and the Universities of Chichester, Edinburgh (both UK), Primorska (SI) and Twente (NL) with finding a room abroad.
Also, the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) of Ioannina in Greece recommends our service to their members.
Follow this link to see the full list of recommendations of Erasmate.
Right on time for the start of the new academic year, we are happy to announce an increasing number of universities and institutions that recommend Erasmate. Next to the already more than 20 universities across Europe, who trust Erasmate’s service, an additional 6 institutions are now officially recommending Erasmate.
We will be glad to help students from the universities in Bonn/Germany, Tallinn/Estonia, Vienna/Austria and Zurich/Switzerland find a room for the Erasmus year 2010/2011. In addition, we will help the incoming and outgoing students of the Studentenwerk Freiburg/Germany and the Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Twente with finding accommodation anywhere in Europe.
Have a look which other universities recommend Erasmate.
It might seem as a minor details and too much hassle to go through… But have you thought about arranging an insurance for your travelling during your Erasmus year?
We keep our fingers crossed for you that nothing will happen to you, but not only might you have problems when going to your final Erasmus destination; you may also want to travel around during the year and that always involves certain risks.
Even if you are the most careful person on the planet, there is unfortunately always a chance that due to someone else’s fault you get into problems.
That’s why we recommend you Columbus Direct for an affordable travel insurance. You can currently get a quote with their Spanish, Italian and German offices:
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For further insurance options in other countries, you can also request a quote on travel insurances from our other partner, WorldNomads.com.
Would you like to prepare for your Erasmus trip to Spain and learn some basic Spanish before you leave? Or are you simply into languages and want to add the sweet sound of España to your repertoire?
Here’s your chance to learn the first lessons of basic communication skills in Sapnish right there in front of your computer. LinguaTV teaches you with comprehensive video tutorials everything you need to know to get started with speaking Spanish!
If you want to know what the lady is trying to tell you in this short introduction video, start a test lesson of the basic Spanish vocabulary course here!
¡BUENA SUERTE!
Are you preparing your Erasmus stay abroad and are still a little worried about the level of your new home’s language? You just can’t quite get the full meaning of the university course descriptions, or are stuck with reading through the foreign information websites?
We are happy to serve you a solution to your language problems!
Erasmate has teamed up with LinguaTV to now offer you video-based language courses to help you with your Erasmus preperations. We have chosen the award winning online courses from LinguaTV to provide you with the most efficient way of learning English, French, German or Spanish (and much more to come!).
Check out the selection of all available online language courses on Erasmate! And be fast – the first 50 Erasmate users get a 10% discount on their course registration!!
Today a news article was written about the expected shortage of rooms for international students in Wageningen. Real Estage Agency Idealis expects to be able to provide all first year students in Wageningen with a room, Erasmus students most likely have to search for themselves. Who knows Idealis wants to recommend Erasmate to all incoming students in Wageningen?!
Can you read Dutch? Check out the article!
Dear readers!
During the week of entrepreneurship (14.04 – 17.04) higher management of Maastricht University openly said that they appreciate the close working relation with the Centre of Entrepreneurship and that they’ll fully support and stimulate the Centre and its projects.
It would have been great if this all was actually true! Read the following quote, written by our own IRO officers and find out the truth:
“With respect to yur initiative, please refer to my previous message and that of Ms [XYZ]. I’m sorry that we cannot be of any further assistance.”
Mates, even funnier to share is that they just signed a cooperation with another company with the same purpose – providing a student-to-student housing platform!
Erasmus program, Partnerships | Erasmate Team | 
October 8, 2010 2:48 pm | 
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