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Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions

OBESSU
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Full name Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions
Founded April, 1975
Affiliation European Youth Forum
Key people

Ela Jakubek, Secretary General,
Lasse Sjøbeck Jørgensen, Board Member,
Laufey María Jóhannsdóttir, Board Member,
Rūta Meškauskaitė, Board Member,
Ferre Windey, Board Member,

Larissa Nenning, Board Member,
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Office location Brussels, Belgium
Website www.obessu.org

Ela Jakubek, Secretary General,
Lasse Sjøbeck Jørgensen, Board Member,
Laufey María Jóhannsdóttir, Board Member,
Rūta Meškauskaitė, Board Member,
Ferre Windey, Board Member,

The Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) is the European platform for cooperation between the national school student unions in Europe, active in general secondary and secondary vocational education. All member organisations are independent, national, representative and democratic school student unions. The platform currently unites 24 national school student unions from 19 European countries.

OBESSU is a stakeholder formally recognized by the Council of Europe and the European Union and a regular interlocutor with the European Commission, European Parliament, Council of Europe and UNESCO. OBESSU aims to establish partnership and cooperation between all educational stakeholders. It is a full member of the European Civil Society Platform for Lifelong-Learning (EUCIS-LLL) and the European Youth Forum (YFJ), and an associate member of the European Students' Union.

OBESSU was founded in Dublin, Ireland in April 1975 by the national school student unions from the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark), United Kingdom and Ireland. The initial aim of the organisation was to create a pan-European school student organisation that could be a platform for cooperation between the national school student unions. By 1980 the platform added members from Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and West Germany and throughout the next decade expanded its membership in Southern Europe. The organisation was in many ways a result of the will to unite east and west but it took almost 20 years until OBESSU got its first member organisation from the former eastern block.


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