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What is knowledge and turnover management? How do we make school student organisations more sustainable? How do we ensure that all the organisation knowledge is not in only one person’s head or in a place that no one can access? We tried to find answers to these and more questions from the 30th January to the 4th February. As a part of the Stronger School Student Unions project, OBESSU organised interregional peer learning activity on knowledge and turnover management.

On 24-26th of January, in Bucharest, CNE - the National School Students' Council of Romania, with the help of MAKOSZ and Save the Children Romania organised the first Inclusive Schools national training, in which 40 school students from all over Romania learned how to value the methodology of Inclusive Schools in their communities and how to fight for more inclusive educational systems, by using lobbying and advocacy mechanisms.

This Friday, more than 100 school students from all over Romania gathered in Timișoara, the city from which the Revolution against the communist system started in 1989, to demonstrate for free transportation services for all school students. Right now, Romania is facing a political crisis and both the Government and the Parliament are ignoring the demands of school students.

On 27 January, OBESSU welcomed Juanma Baez in the Office, the new Project and Policy Officer for the European Changemaker Academy (ECMA). Juanma studied economics in Spain and has worked in European Networks for the last two years in the fields of education and volunteering.

Between 29 November - 2 December we met in Berlin, Germany with participants from different activities of the EYF workplan on #PeerEducation. During the meeting, we had two main goals - to finish the Guidelines on Peer Education and to discuss the next steps, such as how to disseminate and promote the guidelines.