As stated on the EESTEC.net website:
Electrical Engineering Students’ European Association is an apolitical, non-governmental and non-profit organization which targets and trains through it’s activities students from electrical profile Universities, Institutes and Technical Schools in Europe. The association was founded in The Netherlands, in 1986. Nowadays, EESTEC is present in 28 countries and
53 universities across Europe with over 6000 members of whom 3000 are currently active, and indirectly, EESTEC is addressing all students in the faculties that EESTEC exists. EESTEC’s main goal is to promote, establish and develop international contacts and an exchange of ideas between students in electrical profile faculties. The activity of this organization relies on the skills, enthusiasm, openness and will of involvement of its members, also pursuing their professional development , the improvement of their technical knowledge and reaching their full potential. Moreover, students from all over Europe meet and respect their differences and their cultures and this empowered variety results in a friendly international environment and creates awareness for a common European identity. Our vision lies in uniting electrical engineering and computer science students all over Europe in order to reach their full potential in academic and social life. Mission of EESTEC:
We are a network of Local Committees spread in the universities all over Europe
We are the connecting link between universities and industry
We organize academic and leisure events
We dedicate our time, energy and experience to do volunteer activities
We support and promote technical performance
We promote diversity among European cultures
We encourage personal development strategies and aim at reaching high technical and soft skills
We build alliances with organizations and institutions with similar missions and vision
We make future leaders
We promote team spirit and team work
We provide education complementary to that offered in universities to students willing to broaden their horizons and put their skills into practice. EESTEC wishes to facilitate the communication between the academic and the economic environment. We offer the students a handful of opportunities to build their desired career. We promote students that have technical knowledge as well as knowledge that will make them suited for today’s demands. In this way we also address companies easing their contact with young men and women with various skills, ready to integrate in the environment they will be active in as future specialists. By combining the EESTEC Spirit with the general profile of an EESTECer, we can present our values like this:
We are a non-political, non-profitable, voluntary based, non-governmental European organisation by/for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students. Our main focus is students. That’s why, our main mission is to develop the quality of our members and help them through their career path both in academical and industrial aspects. We try to achieve this by helping them further their education throughout the university with our technical events and by helping them get in touch with industry with our industry based events
We emphasize cultural diversity and encourage our members to get to know and respect other cultures existing in Europe. An EESTECer who has the EESTEC spirit is:
Innovative and energetic
Enthusiastic, dynamic and positive and always looking for new challenges
Ambitious and always looking for new ways to improve him/herself
Self-motivated
Friendly, helpful and ready to work as a part of a team
Passionate about his/her work and enjoys what s/he is doing
Works hard and parties harder
Consequently:
We are students,
We are young,
We are passionate,
And we are ready to develop ourselves in our field as well as serving the multicultural structure and common identity of Europe…We are EESTEC !
