Explorers
Text: Miloš Mandi?
Photographs: Miloš Mandi?
Dear EESTECers,
As you might already know Explorers
team is one of the teams in External
Affairs department. Together with
some other teams, it takes a crucial
role in developing and expanding our
organisation. The main goal of this
team is to ?nd students from different
Universities around Europe and motivate them to establish an EESTEC
Observer. Observer status is the ?rst
step which a group of student has to
ful?ll in order to became a full EESTEC
member (Local Committee).
This team currently consists out of 12
members from 9 different LCs. We
share the same vision – EESTEC is
an organisation which constantly gets
new members and committees and
expands to new countries and cities.
During the ?rst meeting we agreed
upon some goals for this year. They
include establishing 8 new Observers
of which half should be from countries
where we don’t have committees.
While working on that, we want to
learn new things, gather experience,
meet new people and work with them.
Last but not the least, the important
part is to have fun while doing all of
the above! :)
Our idea for the ?rst 2 months of
working together was to discuss
about strategy and to plan all the
details needed for contacting universities and students. We were working on
preparing all the necessary materials
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such as: attachment about EESTEC,
body of an e-mail for a student/university, different spreadsheets about
the cities we plan to contact, etc.
During this period we tried to collect
personal contacts from the people
studying in universities where we
don’t have EESTEC committees. So
far we have got a solid database and
we hope we’ll put it into a good use.
At the moment of writing this article,
we’re preparing to start contacting
?rst universities and students. Every
team member has got 3 universities
to contact and we will take new ones
as soon as we get answers from the
existing ones. We believe that cities
such as Paris, Rome, London,
Prague, etc. will soon become a part
of our EESTEC family.
We splitted this school year into two
semesters and we’ll be contacting
universities until the mid-December.
Before the New Year, we will do the
evaluation and take some rest. In the
second part of this school year, we will
do a revision of our results and change
the strategy if needed. After that
we will continue with the contacting
and obtaining the new Observers.
The team is highly motivated, we set
up high goals and we hope for the
best!
Hopefully, this time next year our
organisation will have more than 65
committees and we will cover parts
of Europe we haven’t covered so far.
Enjoy and prepare for new surprises,
new destinations to visit and new
people to meet and become friends
with.