The EAIE Conference and Exhibition in Rotterdam will bring together the international education community from all over the world, providing valuable networking, learning, and partnership opportunities. The EAIE is committed to reducing the environmental impact of such a large event by partnering with Go2RAIL and CANIE. As thousands of professionals will travel to Rotterdam this September, we encourage those who can to travel by train – a social, low-carbon and comfortable way to start your #EAIE2023 experience.
Sustainable internationalisation is a top priority in our sector, and the change starts with you. Join the travel green movement and set an example for the rest of our community.
Start your #EAIE2023 experience on your train journey to Rotterdam with fellow participants. Make connections ahead of the conference, share stories, and spend a few hours in good company!
Schedule your meetings, read the Conference Conversation Starter, and plan your sessions while enjoying the landscape and scenic views.
Select your city and day of the departure to start your Go2RAIL experience to #EAIE2023.
Check your inbox. A Telegram group of fellow travellers departing from the same city and day as you is waiting for you. Introduce yourself and align on which seats to book!
Once you know which train your fellow travellers are taking, book your ticket accordingly.
Meet with your fellow train travellers at your chosen departure city and begin making the memorable journey to #EAIE2023.
The Go2RAIL Initiative is exclusively for students, meaning it's designed to bring students together for travel. To ensure this, participation requires an active student institutional email address.
Like most student associations (e.g., Erasmus Student Network - ESN, Erasmus Mundus Association - EMA), Go2RAIL funds itself through donations and a percentage of the distributed promocodes.
As a not-for-profit organization, Go2RAIL is obligated to reinvest 100% of the generated profit into its mission. Specifically, Go2RAIL uses the generated profit to cover administrative and technology-related costs to improve its service, while the rest of the revenue is transformed into gift cards that students can use for services and/or products to make their travel experience more affordable.
There is no difference between the two. The Go2UNIS Network falls under the same umbrella as the general Go2RAIL Initiative and can be considered the communication channel of the Initiative itself.
The MoU is a general agreement between Go2RAIL and a European university highlighting the interest of such an institution in supporting the Initiative by spreading the word about it among its community of students.
The main aim of signing the MoU is to formalize the interest of an institution in supporting the Initiative, which is important for synchronizing the communication about the Initiative, thus enhancing its impact across Europe.
Go2RAIL's Memorandum of Understanding is not legally binding, as is typical for any MoU.
Once you have submitted the relevant details to draft the MoU for your institution, it will take 1-2 working days to receive the first draft of the agreement.
Go2RAIL is very aware that each European university is subject to its own institutional rules and policies. In this sense, our team is very flexible in adjusting it as the institution sees best.
After sending back the signed MoU, you will receive a welcome email and your institution will be listed among the member institutions of the Go2UNIS Network (www.go2rail.eu/all-unis). In addition, you will receive informative and graphical material to be used to spread the word about the Go2RAIL Initiative among your community of students.
As reported in the MoU, it would be best to inform all incoming and outgoing students at least twice a year, specifically in June for first-semester exchange students and November for second-semester exchange students. Anyways, it will be Go2RAIL's responsibility to send due reminders to make sure that the communication will occur synchronously across all the European institutions belonging to the Go2UNIS Network.
Based on our experience, sending an informative email about the Initiative directly to all incoming and outgoing students has proven to be the most successful strategy. Being aware that this cannot always be implemented, integrating every email sent to international students with two lines about the Initiative can also be considered a valid alternative.
We are happy to help! If you have any doubts or need suggestions to find the most adequate channel of communication, feel free to reach out to the Go2RAIL Team directly via email at info@go2rail.eu.
Go2RAIL, as a non-profit organization, aims at fighting climate change by promoting high-speed trains as a fun, shared, and affordable travel mode choice amongst international students. Coherently with our aim of making train tickets more affordable, we reinvest the yearly generated profit in our business to do so.
The EAIE is the European centre for knowledge, expertise and networking in the internationalisation of higher education. We are one community, working together to drive responsible international higher education now and in the future.
CANiE is a volunteer grassroots initiative formed by international education practitioners from around the world who see the need for our sector to step up and act on climate. CANiE serves as a platform to bring the sector together to act as a catalyst for action.
I’m currently finishing up my PhD in HR Psychology at the University of Valencia and working as Product Analyst at Flix. Erasmus Mundus alumnus and previous re-elected program representative for the EMJMD in WOP Psychology.
I’m currently working as back-end developer at Musixmatch. Alumnus in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bologna.
I’m currently working as a PhD fellow in Logistics and Optimizations at Université Gustave Eiffel. Alumnus in Management Engineering at the University of Bologna.
I’m currently working as Investment Banking vice president at QInvest. Alumnus in Finance at the Bocconi University.
I’m currently working as a Research Fellow in cyber security at the University of Bologna. Alumnus in Informatic Engineering at the University of Bologna
I graduated at the University of Bologna in a master course promoted in collaboration with EIT Climate KIC, combining the technical knowledge of environmental engineering and climate change related topics.
I’m currently working at KU Leuven as Policy Advisor for International Policy and for Sustainability, through the "Green Erasmus" project. Besides I’m Board Member at IROICA (i.e., European Network of International Relations Officers), were I now hold the position of Sustainability Officer, after being 7 years President.
Daniel is the Sustainability & Strategic Partnerships Director at IOI, Daniel Ponce-Taylor has been a keen supporter and advocates for the implementation of the UN SDGs as a framework to assess and evaluate the global impact of EA and international education. He is the co-chair of the NAFSA Sustainability MIG and a member of the CANIE leadership team (European Chapter).
Margherita Pasquini is the Study Abroad Coordinator at Università Cattolica, Milan where she has worked for 14 years in different positions. She's an active member of CANIE and part of the Europe Chapter Leadership Team.
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