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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 and is itself a full member of the European Civil Society Platform for Lifelong-Learning (EUCIS-LLL) and the European Youth Forum (YFJ). ==History== 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.〔http://www.obessu.org/the-history-of-obessu〕 In 1985 OBESSU and its member organisations declared their support for COSAS (the Congress of the South African Students) in their struggle against the apartheid regime. A study visit to South Africa is planned but cancelled after the regime banned COSAS, forcing all the leaders in the organisation to flee the country or go underground.〔Beccia G; 2010; ORGANISATIONS ET MOUVEMENTS EUROPÉENS DES ÉTUDIANTS APRÈS 1968: Les cas de l’Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions et de l’European Students’ Union; UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLESFaculté de Philosophie et Lettres 〕 In 1987, it was clear that the international initiative was strong in the former east block countries. The organisation IUS (International Union of Students), which had their secretariat in Prague, started to work more with secondary students and in 1987 the first international school student meeting was organised in La Havana where representatives of the OBESSU board and many of OBESSU’s Member Organisations participated. The same year, representatives the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and DDR participated in an OBESSU conference in Strasbourg with the aim to establish a more stable contact between the national school student unions in Eastern and Western Europe. In 1995 OBESSU launched a major project to support the growth of school student unions in central and Eastern Europe. Since the early nineties national organisations have been established in Slovenia, Slovakia, Macedonia, and Hungary. Most of these organisations were unstable, in need of support but then, organisations from Slovenia and Slovakia became members of OBESSU. In 1999 OBESSU launched the UNBASCO project which focused on supporting the stabilisation of school student unions in the Baltic countries, leading to the membership of organisations from Estonia and Lithuania. In April 2005, the ''30th Anniversaire Celebrations'' of the foundation of OBESSU were celebrated in Dublin, Ireland and hosted by the Union of Secondary Students. On the 7th of December 2011, OBESSU was awarded the (3rd Civil Society Prize )〔http://www.eesc.europa.eu/?i=portal.en.organised-civil-society-prize-2011〕 during the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee for the (‘Light on the Rights’ Bus Tour ) project. The Civil Society Prize highlights outstanding initiatives and flagship projects by civil society organisations that have a positive impact on Europeans’ lives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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