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Dear Friends,
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For the past six months, an ongoing debate about the future of the
Bologna Process is mobilising more and more actors as a preparation for
the ministers' conference in Leuven. This debate is being developed in
many contexts but had its first visible moment in the official Bologna
seminar held in Ghent in 18th-20th of May. The event was co-organised
by Luxembourg and the Flemish community of Belgium and included a
selection of papers written by researchers as a background. However,
the seminar was unable to develop a vision for the future of the
Bologna Process and rather served as the stage for the promotion of a
few ideas and agendas to be inserted in the Process itself. More...
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| Student Union Development Handbook
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At the moment the European Students' Union (ESU) is a gathering of 49
national union of student from 38 countries and through its members
represents over 11 million of students. ESU is also open structurally
to other European student organization which cooperates with ESU as
associate members. The level of development of student unions varies
widely, from well-developed, well-financed, state recognized ones to
countries where student unions are recently created, or even considered
semi-legal organizations. More...
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IAU 13th General Conference
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IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of
higher education institutions. It brings together institutions and
organisations from some 150 countries for reflection and action on
common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional
and national bodies active in higher education.
The IAU 13th
General Conference, focusing on Higher Education and Research
Addressing Local and Global Needs was held in July 2008 in Utrecht, the
Netherlands. The Conference attracted four hundred thirty four
participants from more than a hundred countries.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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6-7 October: Mobility Seminar with EI, Lille, France
8-9 October: 17th European Students' Convention, Lille, France
November: 55th Board Meeting, Bulgaria
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| A Helping Hand...
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fzs, the national union of students in Germany started, in cooperation
with the student union of the university for applied sciences
Düsseldorf (AStA FH Düsseldorf) and the student union of the university
of Mainz (AStA Uni Mainz), a campaign against the politically motivated
expulsions of students from university in Belarus. The campaign uses
the example of one specific student, who was kicked out of university
after supporting the democratic movement in Belarus and then drafted
into the army. More...
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| Something for the Graduates...
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The Graduate Junction is a brand new website designed to help graduate
research students make contact with other students with similar
research interests, regardless of which department, institution or
country they work in. Designed by two postgraduate students at the
University of Durham, UK, The Graduate Junction has proved very popular
with research students and academics alike. Since the launch of the
website in May 2008 the Graduate Junction already has over 3000
registered users spread across 40 countries. More...
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De LA Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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