ESN card

What is ESN card?

ESNCard is a symbol of new generation of students: mobile, active and successful! It offers not only great discounts for young people across Europe, but also gives them an access to information, culture, education, careers, mobility and fun. In only two years we issued 50,000 ESNCards.

What advantages can you get with the ESNCard?

Your ESN Card will bring you many benefits around the Europe:

• Culture discounts in museums, cinemas, concerts, events
• Fun & leisure discounts in pubs, clubs, restaurants
• Travel discounts language courses, useful information & news
• Shops vouchers & discounts for books, fashion, electronic & DVD equipment
• Sport discounts in swimming pools, fitness & dance clubs, bike rental
• Services, internet, banks accounts, taxi, phone cards

To get a grasp of the benefits of ESN card in Tartu, take a look at the local benefits section of our webpage.

Who can become a member of ESNCard community?

You can become a member of the biggest international community of
students, if:

• You have been an exchange student (e.g. Erasmus or any other exchange programme)
• You are currently on exchange
• You are an active member of an ESN section.

What fields does ESN Card contain?

It consists of several fields, all must be filled while issuing:

• PHOTO FIELD (for a photograph of the card holder, not an avatar or whatever type of graphic; with an increased photo size in latest production to 2.9 cm x 3.5 cm )
• NAME (for name and surname of the card holder, not a nickname or any random words)
• DATE OF BIRTH (real one, no cheating with age)
• ESN SECTION (of the card holder or the one issues the card, not a random invention)
• COUNTRY (name of country the card holder comes from)
• VALID UNTIL (ESN Card is always valid for 12 months, hence if today is 01/03/2009 you have to  put on the card 01/03/2010)
• CARD NUMBER (each card has a unique number put by production company)
• BAR CODE ** (depending on this year production it may be possible to include bar codes. Please ask for details while ordering)

How can you get the ESNCard?

The ESNCard can be obtained exclusively from your ESN local section. ESN Tartu sells ESN cards usaully for 100 kr (roughly equal to 7 Euros) at the beginning of each semester in the Narva maantee 27 office or in the lobby of Raatuse 22 dormitory. Information about the ESN card sale will be sent to the student list. If you have missed the sale but still want the card, please contact us.

How can you activate your ESNCard?

On the main page of www.esn.org, you should activate ESNCard to get most of it. Here you choose about what opportunities you want to be informed about by email and which ones you want to just see online after logging in to your account.