ESU has been continuing its move eastwards with a visit to the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan in early February by Vice-Chair, Anita Liice. Organised by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan in co-operation with the Council of Europe and the Magna Carta Observatory, the event was a Bologna Seminar [...]

ESU reacts to the Commission’s education and training strategic framework It is designed to set the tone for cooperation on education policy across all 27 Member States for the decade ahead. And last week, ESU had the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s updated strategic framework for European cooperation on education and training at [...]

They came from Australia, Africa, North America, Asia and Europe.  For the first time in five years, 17 organisations representing students across the globe came together in Paris last week at an official preparatory conference for the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE), scheduled for July 2009.  The conclusion of the meeting: student rights [...]

Six months of the French Presidency drew to a close at the end of December, and with it a very hectic period of meetings and conferences for ESU staff.  But what was the outcome of all this frenetic activity in terms of higher education policy at the European level?  Were there some real achievements, or [...]

The Czechs are at the helm! This month has seen Prime Minister M. Topolánek and co. take over the Presidency of the EU from the French under the banner of a ‘Europe without barriers’. At a meeting in Prague on 6th January, the Prime Minister and his deputy launched the official work programme for the [...]

ESU has launched its official Plan of Work (POW) for 2009, outlining a comrpehensive series of priorities to steer the organisation over the next 12 months. The 2009 POW is all about working ‘For a Stronger Student Movement’ and focuses on four main external priorities and a chapter on internal development. The four key external [...]

ESU is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with students and student organisations around the globe to mark International Student’s Day today, 17th November, commemorated for the last 67 years in honour of the more than 1200 students who died as a result of a Nazi assault on Prague University in 1939. It is a day for reflection on [...]

European Students’ Union is the umbrella organisation of 49 national unions of students from 38 countries and through these members represent over 10 million students. The aim of ESU is to represent and promote the educational, social, economic and cultural interests of students at a European level towards all relevant bodies and in particular the [...]

Mobility is one of the core issues and key stones in the Building up European Higher Education Area. Mobility may be one of the most complex processes we face in higher education; It has effects on all levels from individual, institutional to societal level; Mobility is in strong interest of students and staff as well [...]