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The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) stands in solidarity with the on-going demonstrations, protests and grassroots movements developed in response to the continuously increasing threats to environmental protection. School students have been peacefully active across the globe for the past months, and the global climate movement led by students is growing stronger each week.

It has been more than half a year since I was working at the office for the last time, on June 15th (during the hottest summer Belgium remembers since the seventies), wrapping up final instructions for Giuseppina, and packing my belongings from the desk that she was now to occupy.

OBESSU stressed, in its internal Work Plan 2018-2020 and Implementation Plan for 2019, its commitment to focus on Education for Wellbeing, which also entails education on sex and gender. Inclusive and quality sex education has been on the agenda of the organisation to be explored for some time.

OBESSU is running the Work Plan #PeerPower - Peer education as tool to empower school students in 2019, supported by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. To start this year long process of reflecting on school students’ peer education practices in Europe and creating a base for OBESSU’s policy and a special toolkit on the topic, there will be two kick-off meetings held in Brussels between 5th-8th March. 

During the days between 23rd and 26th November 2018, OBESSU held an Evaluation weekend, that took place in Thalwil, Switzerland.