NEWS & EVENTS

This year’s General Meeting, held at the University of Bern, once again featured an indispensable delegation of students from the ENLIGHT Student Network (SN), representing all the universities in the alliance. It was remarkable to see that nearly every work package had student representatives actively participating in their respective workshops. The Student Network views this as an incredible opportunity to address various challenges from a student perspective.

What made this meeting in Bern truly special? The ENLIGHT SN Day, where we dedicated an entire day to brainstorming and advancing the Student Network’s initiatives. The day began with two focused sessions: Community and Governance.

In the Community session, discussions revolved around strategies to increase ENLIGHT’s visibility in the institutions, adopt sustainable practices regarding merchandise, and prepare for the upcoming Student Conference in Göttingen. Meanwhile, the Governance team managed both to understand what wasn't working for them and also setting goals for the future; such as the planning of a policy paper focused on knowledge and visibility of the SN within at Alliance level, local level and also internal level or the mapping of the WP tasks that team wants to be active in.

Following the morning sessions, the ENLIGHT SN General Session took place. During this session, we tackled key issues such as improving the Student Network’s internal and external processes, enhancing its “outreach strategy”, and working together to make the ENLIGHT alliance truly unique.

The day concluded in a relaxed atmosphere over fondue, providing a perfect ending to an intensive and productive day. The ENLIGHT SN Day proved to be a fantastic opportunity to refine the functioning of the Student Network, with the added benefit of full representation from all member universities.

What more can we say? It was an amazing three days of hard work and collaboration, leading to decisions and plans that will, we hope, propel the alliance forward.