The Convention was a part of official Czech European Presidency Program. The main theme of this year’s European Student Convention was Student Empowerment through Participation at National, Continental and Global Level. At the conference, representatives of European Student Union member states participated in a number of panel discussions, workshops and, together with invited personalities, tried to find answers to current challenges associated with higher education and the position of students in higher education and in society in general. The panel discussion included the Personalities from the European Commission, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and OECD, as well as the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the European Student Union and the Student Chamber of the Council of HEI.

The conference was awarded Czech European Presidency label and took place under the auspices of Ondřej Liška, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Pavel Bém, Mayor of Prague, and Professor Václav Havlíček, Rector of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

For more information see www.esc17.cz.