ESU - The European Students’s Union - is the umbrella organisation of 48 national unions of students (NUS) from 36 countries. The NUSes are open to all students in the country regardless of their political conviction, religion, ethnic or cultural origin, sexual orientation and social standing. They are run and controlled by students, which hold democratic elections and are run on democratic lines, they are autonomous and independent in their decision-making and which are representative.

The aim of ESU is to represent and promote the educational, social, economic and cultural interests of students at a European level towards all relevant bodies and in particular the European Union, the Council of Europe and UNESCO. Through its members, the 48 National Unions of Students from 36 European countries, ESU represents 10 million of students in Europe.

For further information please consult the ESU web site.

We also provide relevant documents, policy statements and results of the work of ESU as they become available. These are sorted according to main topics connected with the European Higher Education Area.

General documents
	Student Göteborg Declaration, adopted in 2001
	Student survey on the implementation of the Bologna Declaration, published in 2003
	Policy paper – Creating a European Higher Education Area for and with students
Qualifications framework and two-cycles system
	Final report from the 7th European Student Convention on Qualifications Framework, 2004
	Policy paper on degree structure
	Policy paper on qualification structures
Recognition issues
	Policy paper on recognition
	Policy paper on the Diploma Supplement
European Credit Transfer System
	Policy Paper on ECTS
	Student survey on ECTS
Academic mobility
	Policy paper on Mobility
	Communiqué of the 5th European Student Convention “How to achieve genuine student mobility?”
Quality Assurance and Accreditation
	Policy paper on Quality Assurance and Accreditation
	Student Quality Assurance handbook
The European Dimension of the Higher Education
	Policy paper on joint degrees
Student Participation and Higher Education Governance
	Policy paper on student participation
The social dimension of the Bologna Process
	Student Equality handbook
Trade in Higher Education and GATS
	EUA and ESIB joint declaration: An Academic Community on the Move
Transnational education – TNE
	Student TNE handbook