General Secondary [70] Vocational Education [9] Business school [3] Private Education [5] Public Education [63] Other [9]
Figure 3: Respondents by type of schoolMale [63] [92] The second stage of the research wasFemale conducted at the OBESSU Training Course for International Officers (TCIO), which took place in Brussels, Other [1] Belgium in December 2013. Every OBESSU Member organisation but one had at least one representative at the event. On the evening of December 9th, research corners were introduced, at which participants could share their views and provide their inputs on the topic of this report in a participatory fashion.
As research was conducted during the TCIO, multiple respondents from countries not included in the first stage of the research, were also included. These countries were Italy, Lithuania, Serbia and Switzerland. Throughout this report, some examples of participating countries will be included as a way of showing best practices and of how inclusion of school students can be facilitated by actions undertaken by school student unions.
It is important to note that this report does not represent all school students’ views as contexts and school students’ situations vary across the continent of Europe. Rather, this report provides a general overview of the topic, with reference to some specific cases. To protect the privacy and identities of school students and school student activists who participated in this research, no names or school student unions will be specified.
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