European Students' Union

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Overview

Lobbying Costs

250,000€

Financial year: Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

10.5 Fte (19)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

1

High-level Commission meetings

8

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    European Students' Union   (ESU)

    EU Transparency Register

    947001511571-77 First registered on 12 Jul 2013

    Goals / Remit

    The European Students' Union (ESU) is the umbrella organisation of 45 National Unions of Students (NUS) from 38 countries. The NUSes are open to all students in their respective country regardless of political persuasion, religion, ethnic or cultural origin, sexual orientation or social standing. Our members are also student-run, autonomous, representative and operate according to democratic principles.

    The aim of ESU

    The aim of ESU is to represent and promote the educational, social, economic and cultural interests of students at the European level towards all relevant bodies and in particular the European Union, Bologna Follow Up Group, Council of Europe and UNESCO. Through its members, ESU represents over 15 million students in Europe.

    Working together

    ESU works to bring together, resource, train and inform national student representatives on policy developments in higher education at the European level. Since decisions concerning higher education are increasingly taken at the European level, ESU's role as the only European-wide student platform is similarly growing. ESU's work centres around supporting its members through organising seminars, training, campaigns and conferences relevant to students, conducting European-wide research, partnership projects and campaigns, providing information services and producing a variety of publications. for both students, policy-makers and higher education professionals.

    Mission

    ESU’s mission is to represent, defend and strengthen students’ educational, democratic and political and social rights. ESU will work for sustainable, accessible and high quality higher education in Europe.

    Vision

    Equal educational and social opportunities in an open and democratic Europe where students shape a sustainable future.

    Values

    ESU is diverse, democratic and open-minded.

    · We represent all students in Europe, understanding the diversity of the students. ESU is inclusive and strives for solidarity within the students’ movement.

    · We are independent. ESU structures facilitate the accountability of the elected representatives, works with respect towards all members and their different opinions and functions transparently.

    · We are unconventional and open for new thoughts. We, as experts of higher education bring in courageous and smart ideas through a fresh and spontaneous, but professional attitude.

    Main EU files targeted

    ESU follows the decision-making process of all issues related to Higher Education in Europe and/or affect to current/future students enrolled in European Higher Education Institutions.

    Some examples are:

    - ET 2020
    - Modernisation of Higher Education
    - Erasmus+
    - Post-Paris agenda
    - 2013/0081(COD): conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of studies
    - U-Multirank
    - EQF
    - Bologna Process
    - New Skills Agenda

    Address

    Head Office
    Rue de l'Industrie 10
    Bruxelles 1000
    BELGIUM
  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    19

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%6
    75%2
    50%1
    25%10

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    10.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    1 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 04 Jul 2018

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Iris KIMIZOGLU 14 Jul 2023 12 Jul 2024
    Mr Tanguy GUIBERT 13 Jul 2023 12 Jul 2024
    Mr Horia Serban ONITA 13 Jul 2023 12 Jul 2024
    Mr Matteo VESPA 29 Jul 2022 29 Jul 2023
    Mr Horia Serban ONITA 28 Jul 2022 13 Jul 2023
    Ms Gohar HOVHANNISYAN 15 Jan 2020 01 Sep 2020
    Mr Robert NAPIER 03 Sep 2019 01 Sep 2020
    Mr Sebastian BERGER 13 Jul 2019 11 Jul 2020
    Mr Robert NAPIER 06 Jul 2018 06 Jul 2019
    Ms Katrina KOPPEL 06 Jul 2018 06 Jul 2019
    Mr Adam GAJEK 09 Jun 2018 08 Jun 2019
    Blazhe Todorovski 20 Oct 2016 19 Oct 2017
    Lea Christina Meister 20 Oct 2016 19 Oct 2017
    Ms Anna Widegren 20 Oct 2016 02 Aug 2017
    Ms Liva VIKMANE 20 Oct 2016 19 Oct 2017
    Mr Fernando Miguel Galan Palomares 16 Jul 2015 14 Jul 2016
    Blazhe Todorovski 28 May 2015 26 May 2016
    Lea Christina Meister 28 May 2015 26 May 2016
    Alexandra Antonescu 28 May 2015 26 May 2016
    Blazhe Todorovski 26 Jun 2014 25 Oct 2014
    Mr Fernando Miguel Galan Palomares 26 Jun 2014 24 Jun 2015
    Ms Elisabeth Gehrke 26 Jun 2014 24 Jun 2015
    Mr Robert Baldursson 26 Jun 2014 27 May 2015
    Erin Nordal 26 Jun 2014 24 Jun 2015
    Eleni Boulomyti 14 Mar 2014 12 Feb 2015
    Blazhe Todorovski 11 Mar 2014 26 Jun 2014
    Erin Nordal 01 Mar 2014 26 Jun 2014
    Mr Rok Primozic 06 Sep 2013 05 Jul 2014
    Ms Elin Blomqvist 06 Sep 2013 05 Jul 2014
    Mr Fernando Miguel Galan Palomares 17 Jul 2013 26 Jun 2014
    Ms Elisabeth Gehrke 17 Jul 2013 26 Jun 2014
    Mr Robert Baldursson 17 Jul 2013 26 Jun 2014

    Complementary Information

    ESU’s representative structure consists out of an elected Executive Committee (EC), whose work is supported by three coordinators, experts' pools and working groups.

    The Executive Committee (EC) consists out of a President, two Vice Presidents (together called 'The Presidency') and seven general members. The EC is responsible for steering and organising the organisation, both politically and financially, on a day-to-day basis. It is responsible for carrying out the decisions that are taken by the Board Meeting, ESU's highest decision-making body, where all of its member unions participate.

    The daily work of the Executive Committee (EC) is supported by a professional Secretariat based in Brussels.

    Only the Secretariat and the Presidency are employed staff of the organisation. The Executive Committee members of ESU, with the exception of the Presidency, are volunteers and therefore not employed by the organisation, as well as all the rest of the people involved in other structures of the organisation.

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Mr Adam Gajek (President)

    Person with legal responsibility

    Mr Adam Gajek (President)

  • Categories

    Category

    III - Non-governmental organisations

    Subcategory

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    ESU is a member of the European Youth Forum (YFJ) and the Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP)

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    250,000€

    EU grant income for closed financial year

    309,636 € (Source: Erasmus+ - EACEA)

    Other financial info

    The organisation also receives the support of several volunteers for all types of activities carried out by the organisation.


    Most of our lobby work is carried out by volunteers who are not employed by the organisation nor imply an expense as such in our EU-lobby.

    Moreover, we are a pan-European organisation, covering 39 countries (only 27 of them are EU member states), so a big amount of our lobby work is directed to other institutions such as Council of Europe, UNESCO or OECD and inter-governmental initiatives such as the Bologna Process.

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    European Qualifications Framework Advisory Group#E02107 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2107 #Member #C#ET 2020 Working Group on Modernisation of Higher Education#E03009 #http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=3009 #Member #C

    Groups (European Parliament)

    None

    Communication activities

    ESU's POLICY BOOK:
    (http://www.esu-online.org/documents/policy/)

    - Introduction to ESU’s policies on higher education

    - Policy paper on quality of higher education

    - Policy paper on mobility and internationalisation of higher education

    - Policy paper on public responsibility, governance and financing of higher education

    - Policy Paper on the Social Dimension


    PUBLICATIONS:
    (you can get all our publications for free at http://www.esu-online.org/documents/publications/)

    - Bologna With Student Eyes
    - Black Book of the Bologna Process
    - Equity Handbook
    - No student left out - handbook higher education decision making
    - Student Union Development Handbook
    - Gender Equality Handbook


    PROJECTS:

    - PASCL project: The Peer Assessment of Student-Centred Learning (PASCL) project aims to assist in implementing sound student-centred learning (SCL) strategies and approaches at institutional level and to foster a culture of SCL in higher education institutions across Europe.
    +Info and project publications at: http://www.esu-online.org/projects/current/pascl/

    - QUEST project: It aimed at defining a concept of quality that gives a better answer to the learner-centred high quality model of higher education students in Europe
    +Info and project publications at: http://quest.esu-online.org/Home

    - SAGE project: Student Advancement of Graduates Employability (SAGE) is a pan-European project that aimed to analyse the effects of European higher education reforms on graduates' employability and give students a voice in the decision-making process in policies that can affect it.
    +Info and project publications at: http://sage.esu-online.org/Home

    - FinSt project: This ESU project on Financing the Students' Future (FINST) aims at increasing knowledge of how financing systems in Europe affect students and works on the capacity building of the NUSes.
    +Info and project publications at: http://finst.esu-online.org/Home

    Other activities

    Moreover, ESU runs Erasmus+ and Horizon2020 projects in fields related to Higher Education.

    ESU organises at least 4 major events per year, where its 45 National Students' Unions meet and discuss together.

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    8 meetings found. Download meetings

    The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.

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