Today, 10 December, the European Students' Union is celebrating the International Human RIghts Day. On this occasion, we encourage all students to speak up for their rights and fight all forms of discrimination, xenophobia and hate speech on their campuses and beyond.
Education is a human right and a public responsibility and inclusive societies cannot be achieved without taking into consideration underrrepresented groups and students in vulnerable situations, such as refugees. More...

The 2015 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) was held in London, UK on 19-21 November, hosted by the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and UCL Institute of Education. Over 500 participants attended, making it the largest EQAF to date and a fitting way to mark the 10th anniversary of the Forum.
This year, under the title of ‘Taking stock and looking forward’, EQAF reflected on the developments in quality assurance (QA) and higher education over the past decade, from the introduction of the first edition of the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG) in 2005, the formal launch of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) in 2010, right up to the revision of the ESG earlier in this year. In doing this, participants examined the added value that QA brings to the higher education landscape and how best to demonstrate that. More...

With the occasion of the 69th Board Meeting in Cluj-Napoca, ESU members elected with unanimity the European Deaf Students' Union (EDSU) as Associate Member. ESU was delighted to meet Bernadette Auersperg, Board Member of EDSU who participated to the whole Board Meeting 69 and Board Meeting Seminar. ESU ensured that international sign language interpreters were present to ensure a smooth communication. More...

The European Students' Union is organising with colleagues of the EQUIP project (EURASHE, ENQA, EUA, EI, EQAR, UiO, CCISP) 5 events on the use of the ESG 2015 as a tool for change in European higher education. The events will take place in the first semester of 2016.

Free-of-charge registrations for these events are now open here. More...

ESU will take part in a new project, co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of ERASMUS+. The project - called 'Measuring and comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe’ (CALOHEE)  - aims to answer the questions above by developing the infrastructure that will eventually make it possible to test bachelor and master students’ performance Europe-wide across a range of fields. More...

As you may know, Slovenians' opinions are divided on many issues; due to geographical or political reasons. This means that the country has many opposing thoughts on the topic of refugees. On one hand, there are the ones who believe that refugees are going to enrich our society, that our country should put in some efforts to keep (some of) the refugees in our country and that people are coming from warzones, where their lives are endangered and to flee is the only possible and reasonable way to survive. More...