History

ESN Tallinn was founded in 2003 and first started to take care of Erasmus students studying at Tallinn Pedagogical University (current name Tallinn University). Erasmus was at that time the most popular and most successful education program and most of the incoming international students came here with Erasmus. As the number of Erasmus students and other foreign students in this university was small, then volunteers in ESN Tallinn decided to take care of exchange students also in other higher education institutions.

Year by year there were more and more exchange students coming to all the universities in Tallinn - as a result the range of our activities and volunteers has risen.

Now ESN Tallinn takes care of more than 450 incoming international students per semester in many higher education institutions:
•    Tallinn University of Technology
•    Tallinn University
•    Estonian Maritime Academy
•    Estonian Academy of Arts
•    Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre
•    Tallinn Health Care College
•    Tallinn University of Applied Sciences
•    Estonian Business School
•    Estonian IT College
•    Estonian Academy of Security Sciences

International University of Audentes is now part of Tallinn University of Technology and Academy Nord is now part of Tallinn University.

What are we usually doing?
ESN Tallinn is a non-profit organization and according to the statutes our organization should give to exchange students four different social events per month. Usually we have given more opportunities – we use all the ideas that come to our mind and try to give students as many events as possible. ESN Tallinn has around 30 active members, from many universities in Estonia, who organize very different events to exchange students almost every week.

Our typical events during these years
In the beginning of every semester we have an orientation week with various events. Besides we have had trips to different cities and counties in Estonia, museum visits, Estonian movie nights, opera and ballet visits to our National Opera, theme parties, Erasmus Quiz, trips to Lapland and Russia, sport events, ESN Diary and all kind of competitions. ESN Tallinn also takes part of Tallinn Student Days and gives information about (and free tickets of) ongoing cultural and sports events all over Tallinn.