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Dear Friends,
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As I am entering my last month of work in the European students'
movement, I can happily say that where my story ends, many new stories
are beginning. ESU has elected a new team, to be lead by Ligia Deca
with whom I have already had the opportunity to work with for the past
six months. With the new team, ESU's new working structures are coming
into place with more elected representatives in Brussels. One
innovation is the creation of a student union development committee
that will actively support the formation and development of national
unions of students. More...
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| An Introduction to New ESU Policy
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ESU is pleased to announce that members recently amended and
approved a number of policy papers presented to them by ESU elected
representatives. These policy papers will help dictate ESU positions on
the topics covered. Four Policy Papers were adopted - Gender Equality, Excellence, The Future of Higher Education and Mobility. The
policy paper on Gender Equality gives an interesting perspective on the
work that the Gender Equality committee has achieved over the last 2 years, informing fellow elected reprsentatives and
member organizations on not only the importance of gender equality but
also on the best ways to implement it. More...
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A New Generation
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ESU held it's 54th Board meeting in Brusno, Slovakia from May 9th-11th.
Organised by Slovak's National Union, SRVS, 150 participants from our
member unions spent three days deciding on the future of their umbrella
organisation. Not least was the important matter of electing the future
generation of volunteers who would represent ESU during 12 months
starting in July this year. New structures passed at the 53rd Board Meeting in Vilnius,
Lithuania in December last year, meant that the new elected bodies
would be significantly different, as you can read in this month's
editorial.
More...
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Upcoming Events
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16th June: Concluding Partners' Meeting - EQF Project
18th&19th June: E-Learning WG Meeting & VM Base Student Seminar
27-30th June: Lisbon & Students Training
4th July: Lisbon & Students Dissemination Meeting
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| ESU Reacts to Commission's new Erasmus Mundus Proposal
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Erasmus Mundus is a cooperation and mobility program for European
higher education. The official aim of the program is to enhance the
quality of European higher education by fostering co-operation with
third countries in order to improve the development of human resources
and to promote dialogue and understanding between peoples and cultures.
The program should promote Europe as a centre of excellence in these
third countries and thus enhance the attractiveness. The European
Commission promotes Erasmus Mundus in the frame of the Bologna Process
and the Lisbon Strategy. Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses are joint
programs offered by a consortium of higher education institutions. More...
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| ESU Release Equality Handbook
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Last week, ESU released its' equality handbook. This is an important publication exploring the
notion of equality in Higher Education. In it, you can read results
from a survey carried out on ESU members and learn about the situation
as it is today in European Higher Education. The publication also
offers advice on conducting campaigns and on where to go from here. Download the handbook
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| Equity Seminar a Resounding Success
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The Equity Seminar held just prior to ESU's 54th Board meeting in
Slovakia was a wonderful opportunity for ESU members to gather and
discuss issues of equity and equality with their peers. Active
participation in workshops was encouraged and participants were hugely
satisfied with the outcomes of their work and discussions.More...
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Toward a National Qualifications Framework
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Last month we wrote about the Validation conference of the Towards a National Qualifications Framework' Project, from the
21st to the 22nd of April 2008, in Lake Bled, Slovenia.The results of this conference are now available, please follow the link to read a summary of these results & Visit our project page to read More...
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VM Base Project
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ESU helps test online tools aiding Exchange Experiences
Through its
participation in the VM-BASE project (http://vm-base.europace.org), ESU
is helping test a number of innovative ideas on using e-tools before,
during and after their physical mobility experiences to help enhance
the benefit gained from such experiences. A number of pilots are being
tested by various institutions for their effectiveness in achieving
these goals More...
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Mobility Campaign Update
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It has been some 6 months since the European Wide Mobility
Campaign
"Lets Go!" took off. In many countries, National Coalitions of students
and teachers unions have been created, plans to make mobility a reality
on the national level and different actions for the campaign have been
designed. Meetings with different stakeholders, seminars, presentations
etc took place in different countries and much more will take place
prior
to the Validation Conference "Let's Go - Where now?" which will take
place in Lille from 6-9 October. More...
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Belgium
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