UdS General Assembly and Riot Village

On the 27th of July 2016 OBESSU was present at the General Assembly of its Italian Member Organisation Unione degli Studenti (UdS).

Board members Brendan and Giuseppina travelled to the annual summer camp organised by UdS, Riot Village, held in Gargano, Italy from the 23rd of July to the 6th of August to take part in this important moment where the organisation reshapes its policy, biannual workplan and elects a new national Board.

Many students participated in the discussions, which concerned many topics dear also to OBESSU, such us work based learning, representation, quality welfare, student participation, democracy in schools and institutions, counter actions to the Italian school reform “La buona scuola” and actions and plans to foster the engagement of school students in the organisation and in schools in general.

OBESSU contributed to the General Assembly with a small intervention where we presented our work, our priorities and our achievements towards the European institutions. We also presented our upcoming events and invited UdS delegates to stay tuned to our work because – as they also discussed – European policies play a key role in the national scenario nowadays and we need to work together to shape them according to our needs as students and active European citizens.

We wish all our luck to the new Board of Unione degli Studenti, composed of Francesca Picci (Chairperson), Giacomo Zolezzi (Secretary General), Aksel Nikaj (Board Member), Andrea Nicolini (Board Member) and Giulia Biazzo (Board Member). We are looking forward to seeing you all in OBESSUland!

For any further information or question please get in touch with us at board@obessu.org