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"Seeds for Integration" was launched in July 2016 with a very simple idea that is to provide funding to secondary school students active on local, regional or national level so that they first identify the issues their migrant and refugee peers might face within the school environment or the education system, and after that come up with a durable solution to solve it. Seeds for Integration is empowering students to design and implement initiatives enhancing the educational inclusion of refugee youth or those with migration background.

There are few moments during the year as exciting for OBESSU as meetings where all the Member, Candidate and Affiliate Organisations are gathering to jointly work on the development of the network. This was what happened during the past week (26-27 of November) in Dublin – Ireland where our Council of Members (COMEM) took place.

As members of the European Youth Forum (YFJ), OBESSU attended its biannual General Assembly on the 17th to 19th of November. The meeting was held in the European Youth Capital of 2017, Varna, Bulgaria, and gathered more than 200 representatives from YFJ membership.

OBESSU has begun the preparation for the Study Session Welcome to education: all included!, that will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from the 5th to the 12th of March 2017 (including travels days). We are now very happy to open the call for three trainers.

On the 8th and 9th of November in the city of Manchester (UK), OBESSU participated in a meeting organised by Partispace Consortium, a European research-project on youth participation called Spaces and Styles of Participation (PARTISPACE).

In May 2016, around 7500 young people from more than 30 countries gathered outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France to get through security checks at 8:00 in the morning. Why on earth would you queue for that? Well, because on the other side of ‘line’ the European Youth Event (#EYE2016) opened up!

Last week, on the 17th of November, students from all over the world united to celebrate the International Students’ Day! OBESSU has a very long history in defending school student rights and bringing forward initiatives that commemorate the struggles of many people for a free quality education. The International Students’ Day is one of these occasions.

How do school students see innovative school methods in 2020? This was the central question in our Conference School Methods 2020, which was held in Tallinn (Estonia) during the first week of November. The event gathered 33 School Students who are affected by school and the current range of school methods in their everyday lives, to raise their voice on the topic.

The Annual ECVET Forum 2016 “Flexible pathways to vocational skills” was organised by the European Commission with the support of the European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET). The aim of the Forum was to gather information and exchange views and experiences on how ECVET principles can help to provide people with opportunities for open, flexible and individualised pathways to develop vocational skills and to get recognition for them.