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The Lisbon and Students Project will bring together stakeholders from across the European Higher Education sphere to discuss the impact of the European Union's Lisbon Agenda on students and on Higher Education Institutions. A series of three stakeholder meetings involving our partners listed below will occur over the duration of the project, allowing us to gather a true trans-disciplinary picture of the topic. The Stakeholders currently participating are:
EI – Education International  Education International represents more than 30 million teachers and education workers.
Their 348 member organizations operate in 169 countries, from pre-school to university. As the world’s largest Global Union Federation, and the only one representing education workers in every corner of the globe, Education International unites all teachers and education workers no matter where they are. Read more EUA – The European Universities’ Association  The European University Association, as the representative organisation of both the European universities and the national rectors' conferences, is the main voice of the higher education community in Europe.
EUA's mission is to promote the development of a coherent system of European higher education and research. EUA aims to achieve this through active support and guidance to its members as autonomous institutions in enhancing the quality of their teaching, learning and research as well as their contributions to society. Read more EURASHE – European Association of Institutions in Higher Education  EURASHE is the (international) association of European Higher Education Institutions – Polytechnics, Colleges, University Colleges, etc. – devoted to Professional Higher Education and related research within the Bachelor-Masters structure.
The mission of the association is to promote the interests of professional higher education in the Member States of the European Union and other European countries, which are either public, or recognised or financed by the public authorities of a Member State or another European Country Read more European Commission – Directorate General Education & Culture  The Education and Culture Directorate-General’s mission has three main aspects:
Building a Europe of knowledge This involves developing a European area of lifelong learning that will be a benchmark for the world by 2010 and help to make the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge economy in the world, capable of sustained economic growth accompanied by more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Developing the European cultural area Preserving and enhancing Europe’s cultural diversity in the various fields where it is expressed, in particular through measures to support the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry and promote linguistic diversity and language learning. Involving citizens in European integration Promoting, in a spirit of new governance, forms of active participation for citizens, particularly young people, in the European adventure, thus contributing to the development of mutual understanding and trust and a spirit of tolerance, in a Union open to the rest of the world. Read more OBESSU – Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions  OBESSU – The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions is a platform for cooperation between the national school student unions active in general secondary and secondary vocational education in Europe. It was founded in April 1975 in Dublin, Ireland and brings together member and observer organisations from more than 25 European countries. All member-organisations are independent, national, representative and democratic school student organisations.
Read more UNICE – The Confederation of European Business  UNICE represents more than 20 million small, medium and large companies. Active in European affairs since 1958, UNICE's members are 39 central industrial and employers’ federations from 33 countries, working together to achieve growth and competitiveness in Europe.
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