Operating Grant

ongoing

As an organisation, ESU has been advocating for the rights of the European Students connecting the National Student Organisations, and reflecting on the significant developments for the past 40 years. Our new priority is that the transformation of higher education must be met with secure investments into sustainable, inclusive, innovative and dynamic educational policy strategies to recover the losses of students and develop more crisis-resilient higher education institutions both over the short and long terms. Over the next three years, ESU wants to keep its professionalism and comprehensive coverage of the policy topics, considering Higher Education in the European Higher Education Area and the European Union towards the establishment of the European Education Area; including the European Universities Initiative, the Erasmus+ programme, the Next Generation EU, and the Green and Digital Transitions, as well as to strengthen our global engagement via the Global Student Forum. Therefore, the Operating Grant is necessary to achieve our goals and cover a growing number of topics that have arisen within the Bologna Process and the European Education Area frameworks, including awareness raising and policy agency of Youth on the European elections. At the same time, millions of students across Europe might seek advocacy and help, this is the reason we are here to support them in making their voice heard.