Please find additional information regarding our ongoing projects below.
Please find additional information regarding our ongoing projects below.
Duration of the project: November 2020 – August 2021.
Summary of the project
The last ten years have seen a rapid growth in the number of international students in Estonia. These developments have created challenges for student democracy in universities and furthered controversy related to broader anxieties over immigration. Lack of Estonian language skills and social capital has inhibited participation of students in discussions which directly affect them. To address these issues, the project offers a platform for dialogue, networking opportunities and advocacy training for international students. We seek to foster a transnational democratic space for the governance of higher education internationalization, which would help ease concerns over migration and strengthen transnational networks to bring added benefits both in Estonia and abroad.
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This project is part of a larger project “I Am European”: Migration Stories & Facts for the 21st Century, coordinated by NGO Mondo and funded by the European
Project summary:
The aim of this project is to help develop necessary skills within Estonian student unions in order to successfully represent the interests of their students and actively participate in the decision making processes at their given university while adhering to rules of democracy and transparency.
In order to achieve this goal, EÜL will arrange a training program with the intent of advancing necessary skills and knowledge to better execute advocacy. The intended participants of the program are Estonian student unions. The program focuses on developing skills such as communication, leadership, advocacy in higher education, inclusion of all types of students, strategic planning, on-boarding new leaders, media communication.
The overall project objectives:
The key aspects of the training program will be assembled into a reference manual. The aim of the manual is to offer longlasting guidelines to student unions amidst the constant flow of changing members as well as help maintain fundamental knowledge needed in the area of advocacy higher education.
Verifiable indicators of the project:
Creating sufficient knowledge of advocacy in student unions and helping smaller student unions enter the field of advocacy:
Supporting student unions with mobilising students and achieving a higher rate of involvement:
Duration of the project: March 2020 – July 2021.
The Project is supported by the Active Citizens Fund of EEA Grants being operated by the Open Estonia Foundation in consortium with the Network of Estonian Non-profit Organisations.
Project summary:
EÜL is responsible for organising the second meeting in 2020 of Nordic national student unions called Nordic Organisational Meeting (NOM), which has now been postponed to spring 2021 due to COVID-19. EÜL wants to bring together the national representatives of Nordic and Baltic students to further advance cooperation between the organisations and to learn and discuss how to advance the environmental impact awareness and responsibility-taking on environmental issues of universities, its students and workers.
The meeting was originally supposed to take place from 14th to 18th of October in Tallinn, Estonia, but will now be held in spring 2021. The intended participants will be mainly student union federation representatives of Scandinavian and Baltic countries and student councils in Estonia (members of EÜL).
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Duration of the project: June 1st 2020 – summer 2021
This project is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Office in Estonia.