Be part of the European Student Assembly 2025!

Arqus invites students from all its universities to apply for the 4^th edition of the European Student Assembly – ESA 2025 – which will take place from 26 to 28 May 2025 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The European Student Assembly is a grassroots project that gathers each year more than 200 students from different European University Alliances (EUAs) to debate current issues, draft political recommendations for the future of Europe and advocate them among stakeholders and decision-makers. 

Participants will debate and draft policy recommendations on 8 topics related to the future of Europe and essential for students. From February to May 2025, the selected students will work remotely with other members of the same panel to deepen their understanding of their chosen topic and start drafting policy recommendations. They will meet experts and follow online training on policy drafting and moderation. They will analyse the political and legal context, identify the main challenges raised by the topic and decide the priorities they wish to deal with. They will be responsible for proposing concrete solutions to these challenges, to be implemented by stakeholders at various decision levels.

This several-month project will culminate in a deliberative Assembly gathering at the European Parliament in Strasbourg from 26 to 28 May 2025. During the event, many activities will be organised for students and the 64 EUAs.

Students from many countries will come together for a democratic exercise when the European Student Assembly will meet in person in Strasbourg in the very premises of the European Parliament. During 3 days’ they will discuss and finalise their policy recommendations with members of their panel. They will also hear from other panels’ discussions and debate. Finally, they will vote on all policy recommendations prepared in a plenary session and participate to dissemination activities
afterwards.

Applications opened on 5th November, and students can apply until 1st December at 23:59 (CET) using the following link. Applications are open to students from all nationalities, fields and levels of study from the second year of Bachelor to PhD.

• Students who never participated in ESA are welcome to apply as participants and/or panel coordinators.
• Students who participated in the first, second or third edition of ESA as participants may only apply as panel coordinators.
• Students who participated in the first, second or third edition of ESA as coordinators cannot apply anymore.
• Faculty members are not eligible except for PhD candidates.

Students interested in representing Arqus in this major political event, please reach out the Arqus Student Agora team at student-agora@arqus-alliance.eu which will provide detailed information about the Assembly and the application process. We encourage students to read carefully the ESA25 Handbook before applying.

Have a look at the experience of Aleksandra Kabala, the Arqus student from the University of Wroclaw who represented the Arqus Alliance in the ESA 2023 through the stories she published on Arqus social media.

Read the experience of Konstantin Groß, from Leipzig University, who participated in the ESA24.

* ESA does not charge any participation fees. Meals will be provided for free as well as accommodation for three nights in a youth hostel. The reimbursement of travel costs is at the discretion of the European
Universities Alliances.