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12.08.2009

Housing/Accomodation (Nantes)

DRAFT


1. MDE de l'EMN
-contract
-deposit
-assurance
-Jougla
-moving out

2. appartager.fr
how to look

3. Costs
-CAF

4. Tips

Speak French!

Housing/Accomodation (Madrid)

DRAFT


1. Looking abroad
- Used FB and msn using the list of emailing.
- Some people agreed to look together for appartments.
- Most of us used ALUNI (insert link)
- Others came before (europeans) to look.
- Others contacted friends and even previous ME3 students.
- Contact IMIM?

2. Location
- All over Madrid, depending on price and size.
- Collect all locations.
- Close to metro or bus.
- Close to school (Unai, (Ana and Monica),( José, Gio and Raúl - Estrecho), (David, Hesam and Ashenafi - Other side of Estrecho)
- Far from school but close to downtown ((James, Sebastian, Joanna and Adriana), Rena.
- Downtown (Gautier, Antoine, Ilona, Katie)
- Really far away (John, Diego, Indira), (Andrew, Angela, Anjali)

3. Cost
- Between 300 and 500 euros per month
- ALUNI administrative fee.
- ALUNI's deposit - some people had some trouble

4. Tips

- Deposit: some ask from 1 month up to 6 months! Negotiate.
- Sometimes no contract

12.06.2009

Introduction - Welcome

This blog is intended to give some tips and comments on the life before, during and after the ME3/PM3E master. The idea is to use available tools (Web 2.0) to create a network of ME3 alumni. It is open to anyone who wants to participate and it is meant to act as a side project of the whole network.

Among the other arms of the network, we are working on several aspects:

1. Official information, of which you can find the official webpages in this blog's links list.

2. Professional network: we also have a LinkedIn group called ME3/PM3E where we are trying to get future, current and former students as well as lecturers and recruiters to join.
2.1 We have began contacts with the Direction des relations entreprises to develop a joint work on building the network.
2.2 We have also contacted a few potential collaborators in the building of the network.
2.3 We will be supporting the ME3 Magazine, an initiative to create a space for opinion on topics related to ME3 such as energy, environment, management, etc. It will be the ME3 view of the topic and it intends to show the world what we think.

3. Social network:
3.1 Facebook: we have a few groups in FB, mainly per generation of ME3's and it has been useful to establish contact before meeting in Madrid for the first time.
3.2 Social network: Alex Thornton ('09) created a social network called ME3. It is an idea to socialized within the web, i.e. to try and unite the FB groups.
3.3 Google groups: we have developed several google group adresses to send out information to the ME3 generation. It is intended to have a 'daily' communication channel and it is used for official communications as well as party and travel planner.

4. Quality assurance of the master: being only a raw idea, the '10 generation proposed to create a quality assurance group (multidisciplinary and crossfunctional) to boost the continous improvement of the master. Although not official, the group has (through its class representatives) suggested several improvements to the master.