2025 Annual Overview

Remarks

• Amplifying School Students’ Voices (Monthly Updates): February – March – April – May – June – August– September – October – November – December
• Gearing up for an exciting period of activities – what’s on our agenda? (Feb’2025)
• Post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) – What’s at Stake?
• State of the Union (SOTEU 2025) – What lies ahead for learners across secondary education, VET and apprenterships?
• Press Release – Global Education Week “Shaping a just, peaceful & sustainable future” starts with Student Rights 
• External Affairs 2025 – Representation and Engagement with Key stakeholders

 

Our Papers

• OBESSU Policy Paper on Artificial Intelligence in Education – Empowering Learners through a Rights-based Approach 
• OBESSU Policy Paper on Inclusion of Ethnic Minorities in Schools
• OBESSU Policy Paper on the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza
• OBESSU Position Paper on Multi-Stakeholder Cooperation in School Governance
• OBESSU Position Paper on: No Future without Media Literacy – No to Smartphone Bans in Schools!
• OBESSU Policy Recommendations – Forging an Inclusive Future in VET
  • Italian Version 
  • German Version 
• OBESSU Policy Recommendations for Gender-Sensitive Education
  • Italian Version
  • German Version
• OBESSU Statement in Solidarity with Serbian Student Protests
• OBESSU Board Statement Regarding the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine
• OBESSU Board Statement on the 17th of November
• OBESSU Urgent Motion Regarding the Directions Proposed in the New Romanian Government Program Concerning the Scholarship System
• OBESSU Urgent Motion on Exam Fees in Ireland
• OBESSU “Advocacy in the digital era” – Toolkit for School Student Unions
• OBESSU IMPACT Booklet

Papers co-signed by European Apprentices Network (EAN): 

• Statement in Support of the adoption of the Herning Declaration 
• Position Paper on the Herning Declaration

Additional Outcomes, guided by and help guide our efforts:

• OBESSU 50th Anniversary Booklet
• OBESSU Membership Survey (internal document) 
• OBESSU Implementation Plan 2026
• OBESSU Work Plan 2026-2027
• Annual Report 2025 

Our Projects

Inclusive Engagement of Underrepresented Students in Vocational Education & Training (InclusiVET)

• InclusiVET – Project Description 
• InclusiVET Project – Ending a chapter, yet many more shall come

Mapping Report | Self-Assesment Tool | Inclusive Action Plans (Guidelines) | Online Course for Students' Support Staff

Educational Leadership Network Europe (ELNE)

• ELNE Annual Conference (2025)
• ELNE – Policy Recommendations & Start of Year 3

Policy Recommendations (Year 2) | Journals 

Skip the Barriers of International Mobility

• SBIM – Project Description
• SBIM Training course in North Macedonia

International Mobility Toolkit |

Our Partners’ Statements

Lifelong Learning Platform |  European Youth Forum | Civil Society Europe | 
Generation Climate Europe |  Global Student Forum