How to turn student representation into student engagement: Insights from two European University alliances

Student representatives play a vital role in protecting student rights, being a voice in decision-making and serving as an important link between a university and its students. Nevertheless, the idea of what a student representative is and how students should be involved differs vastly between countries and universities. In this session, two European Universities Initiative alliances – EUGLOH and EUTOPIA – discuss the traps to avoid and some concrete ideas for how to spark student engagement.

Topic

• European-funded programmes
• European Universities Initiative

Chair

• Emily Helmeid, 

  Université Paris-Saclay, France

Speakers

• Isabelle Nilsson, 

  Lund University, Sweden

• Karin Jonson, 

  Gothenburg University, Sweden

• Charlotte Malle, 

  Université Paris-Saclay, France

• Paul-Adrien Viala, 

  Cergy Paris Université, France