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For the third year in a row OBESSU attended the 19th edition of the University on Youth and Development, in Mollina, Spain. This year, the University focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16: The role of Young People in promoting peaceful and inclusive societies. Our activity was in the frame of a Policy Seminar called: ‘’Young Advocates for the Educational Inclusion of Refugee and Migrant Students’’.

From the 5th to the 9th of September 2018, the new Board of OBESSU had its handover meeting, in two countries!

The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions shares concerns on the State of the European Union speech delivered this morning by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker. While we welcome Juncker’s call for promoting peaceful and inclusive societies to fight radicalisation and Euroscepticism, we want to stress that the history of the European Union and its values will be lost if Member States do not start to invest again in education.

As a participant in the Summer School 2018: 'Open doors to inclusion!', Adna Sokolović, from ASuBiH, had the opportunity to talk about the topic of inclusion with young people from all over Europe. She explains how her perspective and understanding of the topic has change.

OBESSU General Assembly held in Bucharest on the 21st and 22nd of July voted on welcoming a new member organisation to the OBESSU family. Comité des Elèves Francophones (CEF) - the Belgian French-speaking school student union - joined OBESSU as a full member after a year and a half of candidacy.