The European Students’ Union is glad to announce that over 400 projects by  young people between the ages of 10-20 from across Europe participated in the Horizon2020 SciChallenge competition. They submitted projects related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) topics. 12 winner projects were selected, following the jury and online ratings. You can see their ingenious applications here. More...

On the 5th of September, we will be hosting the Bologna Follow-Up Group Working Group 3 meeting in Brussels. The aim of the meeting is to finalise policy developments for new European Higher Education Area (EHEA) Goals. More...

The European Commission issued a call for a Public consultation on the “Recommendation on Promoting social inclusion and shared values through formal and non-formal learning”.
Since students are one of the target groups of the consultation, we would like to promote the participation among our unions! ESU will also participate in the consultation, but we strongly encourage all member to join so as to strengthen the voice of students. More...

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) will organise a  public hearing on the European Pillar of Social Rights.
The event will focus on the link between the pillar and the reflection paper on the social dimension of Europe by 2025. We encourage you to save the date if you want to join the event in person. Otherwise, there is webstreaming available. More...

ESU launched last year a small grants programme for student-led initiatives working to support refugee equal access and participation in education and society. Thirteen projects have been selected since last fall, empowering students and refugee students to bring a change, create support networks, raise awareness on refugee rights, promote involvement of refugees and asylum seekers in the student community etc You can find out more about each project on our dedicated project webpage. More...

SAVES2 builds on a previous project called SAVES. Between 2014-2017, the original SAVES expanded the National Union of Students in the United Kingdom (NUS-UK)’ Student Switch Off campaign to four other European Union countries (Lithuania, Greece, Cyprus and Sweden). SAVES2 will continue running Student Switch Off in the existing partner countries, and grows the campaign to a total of seven countries (with Bulgaria, Romania and Ireland joining the cohort), to help students get into good energy saving habits. More...

For many years the Swedish National Union of Students’, SFS has called attention to the negative effects Sweden’s current health care system has on students. The system’s large sum of qualification days (30 days compared to a working individual’s single day), and also lack of rehabilitation opportunities and responsibility has led to students dropping out of their studies, getting financial difficulties, and also having a harder time recovering. SFS has worked through campaigns, opinion pieces in media, and several referral responses to different governmental investigations concerning health care systems. The Swedish student movement’s long term work on improving the health care system for students now finally seems to come to a conclusion that will improve the welfare of Swedish students. More...

The Coordinator of Representatives of Students of Public Universities (CREUP) welcomes the news coming from different Spanish autonomous communities (Andalusia, La Rioja and the Canary Islands) which represent a further step in reducing economic barriers in access and maintenance of Students college life. More...

We have selected our new coordinators for human rights and solidarity, membership and equality. They will serve for one year until July 2018. If you want to know more about who they are, feel free to check their biographies below. More...

Members of student unions are invited to apply for an exciting education project in Singapore this October!
The 6th ASEF Rectors Conference and Students Forum (ARC6) is for those who are active in shaping prospective education paradigms and committed to fostering quality education. More...