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This project was made possible thanks to the financial support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. This project was supported under the campaign.
This is an enhanced version of the CountryFile created in 2000 by OBESSU which was published only in the printed format. This project is online since 15th of March 2008.
IBE acts as UNESCO's center specialized in contents, methods and structure of education.
We will welcome your comments at .
EYF is a fund established by Council of Europe to provide financial support for European youth activities.
DG EAC is a directorate-general of the European Commission of the European Union.
Eurydice is an information network on education in Europe and an integral part of Socrates Community action program in education. It provides detailed information on school systems in Europe and more.
Contact details of student organizations and national institutions can be found in following parts of this web page: .
OBESSU is a platform for cooperation between the national school student unions active in general secondary and secondary vocational education in Europe.
CoE DYS is a directorate of the Council of Europe.
Information on this web site is provided as is. As it is a product of many individuals, OBESSU and/or any other mentioned student/educational organisation make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of this site. None of the mentioned organisations shall be liable for...
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Confederación Estatal de Asociaciones de Estudiantes - CANAESpanish Confederation of Student Councils
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According to Finnish law, the students in every secondary school in the country have to form a student body and have a representative organ, a student council. Furthermore, according to Finnish law, the educator is compelled to give the students the opportunity to participate in the development of...
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Students are not in any way represented in neither municipal nor governmental bodies.
DGS: LH: Student Councils
The total budget is €0.
100
1991
Since Switzerland is a federal state, each canton has it’s own law. Furthermore each school has it’s own law. The grade of student representation is therefore depending from local authorities. Student representation is seen as a useful tool to create social atmosphere at local schools. No law...
Students are practically not heard at all. The only possibility for them to make some small changes is at school level, but this also varies from school to school. At the moment UNSS is cooperating with the Ministry of youth and therefore school students are given the opportunity to have a say...
Depends from case to case, but generally students are not represented, or are represented but without the right to vote.
In the Netherlands, students sit on the very formal co-administrative council. This allows them to participate. However, student councils are also a part of school student participation. The promotion of student councils (perhaps through legislation) is one of the challenges for the future.
All those registered as school students in Ireland.
The total budget is around € 75,000.
Around 80
1994
The Board (elected by the GA and proposed by the former Coordinator) is formed by a Coordinator, an Organisational Secretary, and 3 to 8 chairpersons for specific the working groups.
English Secondary Students' Association - ESSA
Individual school students and school councils
€ 100,000, majority by Ministry of Education and Youth Institute, other on project basis from different sources.
ESSA is unable to run a GA because of issues regarding logistics and funding. It is ESSA's aim to establish GA in near future, however.
There are eight employees working full-time for both DOS and Student Union of Slovenia.
The highest decision-making body is the general assembly. The GA convenes six times a year and also during two weekends. The daily affairs are managed by a board of trustees. This board consists of six students and an adult advisor. Additionally, there are volunteers and members of the staff.
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At national/regional level students are heard only if they go on strike. At schools, it depends from the headmaster and the other teachers. Legally students' voice can only recommend. Most often if they are invited to speak, they are not heard.
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The general situation in Estonia is quite instable. Also, young people are not always valued as whole citizens and informing school students is a difficult process.
SUN is formed by student councils whose school as an institution is a member of the union. These are organised throuh their region, but are members of the national organisation. It is possible to become an individual member of SUN.
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FSS: FSS has 6 members of staff.8 employees work full-time in the office. SLL has three to five project-based employees who visit schools. The president and two vice presidents are not members of staff, but they work full time and get paid for this.
General Assembly decides upon the Statues, Political platform, work program etc.
There are also other student organizations, but DOS is the only nationwide student union. Some of the biggest regional organizations are the Student Union of Ljublana and School student union of Maribor.
Students are not represented in the municipal, regional and national Bodies, except at the regional and national Youth Forum and The Best representative school students’ organizations Board at the Ministry of Education. Another exception is the Provincial school students’ council that is made...
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The biggest problem is the de-coupling between what decision makers say and what they actually do. Politicians speak about how they want to give the youth more influence over the issues. In Sweden there’s a tendency to develop separate structures for youth representation and apply one standard...
According to the Ministry of Education project-law for a harmony between students and teachers, the representation of the pupils and students in Secondary Schools and Universities is protected and provided by the law. However, there is still no School Student Union to gather student council...
Suomen Ylioppilaskuntien Liitto (SYL; The National Union of University Students in Finland) - an interest organisation defending and improving the educational, financial, and social benefits and rights of the students
In municipal bodies students are sometimes represented through a youth council. On a national level VSK is actively representing students.
The involvement of school students in the development of their educational centers is very much up to every school to define. While some schools have important structures for students’ participation, others do not even have an active student council. This creates very important disparities among...
The problem is that students generally aren’t heard much, even though there are a lot of laws concerning student representation.
FSS: -SLL: SLL focuses heavily on research in order to be well informed about the condition of the secondary education system.
Danske Gymnasieelevers Sammenslutning - DGSNational Federation of Business Students in Denmark
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Students in general are not included. It depends on the respective schools and its headmasters. Occasionally students are invited to comment on some issues on regional level, but are hardly heard.
LAKS has a very powerful and respected position during the final exams. By organising a final exam complaint line students inform the organisation about errors in the exams. Also, they report organisational problems at schools. LAKS then forwards this to the responsible institutions.In November...
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Aontas na Mac Léinn Iarbhunscoileanna
There are more then 25 regional, provincial and local federations represented. No exact data available but they represent over 200 000 thousand students.
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The General Assembly is usually held four times a year. Representatives of secondary schools, elected by each school’s Student Council, are the members of the General Assembly. Out of 142 representatives approximately one hundred attend.
1994
FIDL - the second high-school organization behind the UNL, defends of the ideas appreciably similar to UNLSUD Lycéens - High-school union of extreme left
It is legally stated that every public school or private school receiving subsidies must allow the creation of a student council with two representatives from each class, three or four representatives at the School Board and two representative at the Provincial school students’ Council. Moreover,...
ESCU made a change in the Law of Basic School and Gymnasium to the Ministry of Education that was accepted by the ministry. Also ESCU participates in different working groups of the ministry and all decisions concerning students are discussed. Hearing students’ opinion unfortunately also depends...
40 secondary schools in Sweden have local boards made up by a majority of students. But apart from that there’s no student representation in the official municipal bodies.On national level we are often asked to participate in the committees that investigate different issues. All governmental...
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DOS is financed mainly by the special taxes for student work. Members do not have to contribute. The estimated budget is €80,000 per annum. Costs, like staff, accountancy, office, etc., are paid by Student Union of Slovenia (another student organization in Slovenia, working regionally), so usage...
FSS: 150SLL: 300
1998
Union der Schülerorganisationen - USOUnion of School Student Organisations
EEO: We have problems with our student being at the school for such a short period. Most are on the school for 20 to 40 weeks, which means that they don’t have much time to get into student decision-making, before they go out to get practical experience.
Youth clubsIn each school there are Youth clubs formed by USM. Student councils are a part of them.
FSS: The total budget is around €300 000.
Around 25
2003
Union Nationale Lycéénne - UNLNational High-school union
Flemish law recognised VSK officially in 2000 as an independent organ with its own finances. There is internal participation; students govern the organisation. No adults may have voting rights. In 2004 the participation decree became law. This made it compulsory for every school to have a student...
Our focus is largely on local level.Historically SECO was largely responsible for the removal of the Christianity subject in the seventies, the introduction of sex education in the sixties and the inclusion of students in the working environmental laws in the eighties.
They can attend meetings on the federal land level.
Individuals
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160
1998
The highest decision-making body is the general assembly. The daily affairs are managed by a board. Additionally, ESCU has a powerful auditing commission which is elected every two years by the GA.
In the law it is stated only that it is a recommendation for secondary schools to have a student council. This doesn’t oblige schools to have a student council meaning that the principle is authorized not to allow students to form a student council. If there is an existing student council still...
Usually, students are listened to but their opinion isn’t valued much.
On a school level students are heard through student councils, alternative forms of participation and the formalised co-administrative council.
In Ireland lack of funding for student unions is the biggest problem for school student representation.
A national board of 9 people is elected on the General Assembly. 3 members of the board, the Secretary General, national coordinator (responsible for the employees in the regions) and the development coordinator make up the steering group that executes the boards decisions and coordinates the day...
According to the law (Zákon o školskej samospráve), student council is voted by all school students and consists of 5 up to 11 students. It designates a Student Representative for the School Council and comments on issues to the director of the school. Majority of students doesn't know that such...
School students are not regularly involved on a municipal level. Youth councils are sometimes present. In the Netherlands, municipalities have very little influence on education. On a national level LAKS speaks regularly with civil servants and politicians to discuss student issues. The...
Every class elects 2-8 people (grades 7-12) for the school student councils GA. Then 3-12 people are elected to the board, which is (should be) also represented in regional and national level.
Public organizations, students’ councils.
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CANAE, as a confederal organisation, is formed by student councils organised in local, provincial and regional federations.
There are approximately 100,000 secondary school students in Slovenia. All of them are considered to be members.
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In Italy there are four student unions working at the national level. Apart from UDS, these organisations exist:There is not a national body where all student organisations convene officially and are recognised by the government. However, UDS and all of these organisations are represented at the...
There are students included in working groups of the Ministry of Education. When the government wants to make a decision concerning students ESCU is often involved in through working groups or other means.Slowly we are moving to students’ representation at municipal bodies through youth city...
Technically, nothing prevents school-student representation. The biggest challenge in this area, is making the school students wants to get involved.
• Competition between organisations – there are so many youth organisations that have the same aims but they don’t want to co-operate.
Individual students and schools. Individual membership is free. Affiliated school membership package cost £75 and every student within that school becomes an affiliated member.
FSS: 4967SLL: 50 000
VSK has 7 members of staff.
Vlaamse Vereniging van Studenten (VVS) - The National Union of Students from University and higher education
The student representatives of each school are included in a lot of decisions concerning their school. On a federal land and national level the student representatives can attend meetings or are invited to meetings that discuss the educational system. However, neither happens very often.
It always depends on school - in some schools students are listened to seriously, in other not so much. On the national level the influence of student organisation is not so great, but always making small steps forward.EEO has experience when students took over and manage to do the change. At one...
Civic involvement in the education (i.e. Student councils, Student unions) is a part of the reform process.
Unija na Srednoshkolci na Makedonija - USMUnion of Secondary School Students of Macedonia
Around 90 student councils.
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1984
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JRD - Youth Business Department
CANAE takes active participation in the Spanish Youth Council (Consejo de la Juventud de España, CJE, www.cje.org), as a full member.
Младежко сдружение за мир и развитие на Балканите
6000
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300
1998
Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel vzw - VSK
UNSS is the only organization representing secondary school students in Serbia. (SUS is University students’ union of Serbia, the national organisation representing University students, a member of ESU. )
According to Dutch law, the students in every secondary school in the country have the right to form a student council. Furthermore, 25% of every co-administrative council is reserved for students. This council also consists of 25% parents and 50% teachers and has to approve certain areas of school...
Any person with the status of a secondary school student is a member.
The total budget is around € 10,000.
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1938The first student council was fomerd 1852 at Sven Erikssons gymnasium in Borås. The first national union was formed in 1938 (STSE - Sveriges Tekniska Skolors Elevförbund) which merged 1982 with SECO (fomred 1952) to Elevorganisationen I Sverige which 2006 changed its name back to SECO.
Unija srednjoškolaca Srbije - UNSSUnion of secondary school students of Serbia
Študentská rada vysokých škôl (ŠRVŠ) - national organization representing university students
The law of Basic Schools and Gymnasiums promotes the representation of students and allows the creation of school councils. There aren’t any laws that hinder the representation but they are very general.
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