{"id":99428,"date":"2019-05-31T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T08:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=99428"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:23:22","slug":"in-pictures-students-and-the-role-they-play-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/05\/31\/in-pictures-students-and-the-role-they-play-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: students and the role they play in the city"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erasmus University\u2019s 105th anniversary comes with a special theme: \u2018Science Meets City\u2019. EM<\/em>\u2019s\u00a0photographers will each share their own take on this theme. Photographer and psychology student Aysha Gasanova shines a light on the way in which students form part of the city of Rotterdam. \u201cStudents come from all over the world to get a degree here. Without science they wouldn\u2019t be here. Of course they do party \u2013 which is important, as it helps them relax \u2013 but what I find most inspirational is that many of them wish to give back to the city, by using their knowledge, among other things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Student clubs organise all sorts of projects in the city, ranging from dinners for homeless persons to helping elderly people file their tax returns. For instance, Stichting Betrokken Student (the Foundation of Involved Students, a.k.a. BeSt), which was founded by RSC\/RVSV, has organised an annual Remembrance of the Dead service in Kralingen for the last few years. \u201cI think it\u2019s great that they do this every year,\u201d says Aysha. \u201cIt\u2019s their way of showing the city that young people, too, commemorate war victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it\u2019s admirable that students are so busy, yet so willing to give back to the city in some way,\u201d says Aysha. One of her favourite examples is Enactus, an organisation that offers students an opportunity to grow on a personal level by tackling societal issues. One of the ways in which they do so in Rotterdam is by establishing small companies with elderly people and getting those to grow into sustainable revenue models in a few years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

In February of this year, they embarked on \u2018RotterJam\u2019. Together with elderly people in nursing homes, the students now produce jam, which is sold at Foodelicious, a delicatessen in Mariniersweg. Aysha joined Enactus on a trip to the Humanitas elderly people\u2019s complex in Spijkenisse, where they turned carrots into jam. \u201cLoneliness in elderly people is a huge problem. I loved seeing the way in which the students really did their best to bond with the elderly people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I told my friend Laisvyda that I was creating a photo reportage on students and the city, she invited me to come and attend Gisela\u2019s birthday party with her. The party was on the boat in Wijnhaven where Laisvyda is living.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cObviously, students are an important part of Rotterdam nightlife,\u201d says Aysha. Take a walk in the city on any given evening and you will see them everywhere. \u201cI particularly like this photo of two Greek Master\u2019s students crossing the street because of the lighting. I managed to capture the moment when the car\u2019s rear lights were on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can also view the photos of Ronald van den Heerik<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t