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My ESIB Experience

Since my first ESIB event in autumn of 2003 many things have changed within this organization. Over the past 3 years I have witnessed many people come and leave this European-wide organization. I saw 3 chairmen / chairwomen in this organization.

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The last one is the person who got me involved in the student life on the national scale. This person is none other than Dr. Justin Fenech. He is not the only Maltese to be active within this organization. There was also Dr. Angele Attard who was a member of the Commodification Committee, whose task was to determine whether education is a commodity in this day and age or not. As an organization KSU has been chairing the Education Working Group within ESIB for the past 3 years. The primary focus has been on the past two years on the topic of Formal, Non – formal and Informal education. A person hearing this for the first thing might ask but isn’t non – formal and informal education the same. Technically speaking this is not true since one is concerned with education obtained by natural instinct whilst the other is obtained through a program that isn’t formal in its definition. This though is a bit too much a detail, if you are willing to learn about it more check out our website. Getting back to ESIB, it is similar to KSU but it is on a bigger European scale. Whilst we (KSU) have AGM, ESIB has Board Meetings that are held twice a year. Over and above this, twice a year there are European Student Conventions (ESC) being held in the country that holds the European presidency. ESC is focused on particular topic such as Lisbon Objectives or Doctorate degrees, etc. during these events the different unions are engaged in what seem never ending debates on the views of the particular student council / union. At the end there are documents drafted that guide us when tacking the set issues. Apart this highly technical work ESIB is also about meeting people from the different countries and sharing their experiences, from well unionized Nordic states to the state outlawed student representatives in countries such as Belarus. One of the ESIB Executives is from Belarus. However she has been expelled from her university for not reporting to the university administration that she attended an ESIB event that was held in the ‘western’ country (France). It is interesting to note that on one side we are talking about highly complex issues of Bologna and Lisbon Objectives when certain countries within our Europe do not even allow student representation let alone the fact that students are meant to report their every move to the university authorities. Image you were expelled from university for not attending a day or two of lectures; all this because you didn’t advise the administration beforehand of your abstention. Well, as a title of one book says ‘Hope dies last’; let us hope that sane mind and thinking will push us forward and that we all will have similar opportunities.

Damian Kovac

Damian Kovac

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Manžel, Otec, Projektový Manažé, člen hnutia NOVA Zoznam autorových rubrík:  Kunsill Studenti UniversitarjiMy ESIB ExprienceOpinionsSúkromnéNezaradené

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