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Dear Friends,
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The European ministers of education asked the Bologna Follow-Up Group
to come up with a concept for the development of the Bologna Process
after 2010. Governments and consultative members, party to the Bologna
Process (especially the students and the higher education
institutions), are faced with the challenge of designing the
relaunching of a process that has been shaping the higher education
systems in Europe. More...
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Involvement of Students in the Education & Training Program
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One of the main priorities of ESU for the Lisbon strategy is an
increased involvement of students. Although ESU is still not a part of
the working groups, the Commission is recognising us as a stakeholder.
This is reflected in the amount of invitations we receive for
conferences and the nature of these invitations. When I started in
CoCo, ESU was mainly invited as a spectator and now we are more often
asked as a speaker. During the latest initiative of the Commission, the
University-Business forum, Ms Rossella Iraci Cappucinello, member of
the European Students' Union executive committee gave a speech during a
panel on perspectives for the future.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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April 21 & 22: EQF Conference
May 5-8: Seminar on Equity in HE
May 9-11: ESU Board Meeting
June 08: Lisbon Training, Brussels |
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| The EQAR Founding
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The European Quality Assurance Register (EQAR) was established on the 4th of March 2008. At
the founding ceremony of the EQAR, the E4 presidents signed the
statutes of the association. Commissioner Jan Figel from the European
Commission and Vice-chair of the Bologna Follow-up Group, Germain
Dondelinger, gave keynote speeches at the ceremony. All the speakers
stressed the importance of the Register as a tool for transparency and
mutual recognition in quality assurance in the European Higher
Education Area. More...
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What Does Gender Have to do With Mobility?
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Students and staff mobility promotion program Erasmus celebrated its
20th birthday last year and has now entered a new phase. During this
last period numerous statistics have been collected about mobile
students. Among many other specific goals of the program there were
also specific objectives laid out in relation to the promotion of
gender equality . More...
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| Vienna & Budapest to Host 2010 Ministerial Conference with help of ESU
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ESU is pleased to announce that there will be a special Ministerial
summit in the spring of 2010 to mark the creation of the European
Higher Education Area, as outlined in the Bologna process. The meeting will be held in both Vienna (Austria) and Budapest
(Hungary) and will be organised by the Austrian and Hungarian
governments in cooperation ESU, the European University Association
(EUA) and the European Association of Institutions in Higher Education
(EURASHE). This decision was reached at the recent meeting of the Bologna
Follow-Up Group (BFUG) held in Brdo,
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ESU Needs You
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Let's Go! Mobility Project is in full swing. ESU is delighted with the
progress so far and with the response from our national members who have
been busying themselves planning national campaigns along with the
national teacher unions. We still need help though - the campaign
website has a Wikipedia component which aims to become THE reference
point for all topics related to staff & student mobility. We are
filling this up over time and urge you to visit the wiki and write and edit articles on your areas of expertise. together we can create a living mobilty encyclopeadia.
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Students Gather to Discuss Democracy
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From 13th-17th March, ESU held its' 15th European Students'
Convention. Close to 100 Student representatives from across Europe
gathered in ljubljana to discuss 'Students For Democracy'. the outcomes
of this conference were gathered in the 'Ljubljana Declaration'. Read
about the conference and its' conclusions here
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European Students' Union
20 Rue De LA Sablonnière
1000 Bruxelles
Belgium
www.esu-online.org
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