NUS UK is holding a new online event - Campaigns Exchange - for elected officers to set the direction of our movement.
We’re bringing elected leaders from HE and FE at this crucial moment for NUS. At our conferences last year, members voted to reform NUS to ensure you’re more engaged and empowered to shape the work of our national union. Campaigns Exchange will be all about sharing ideas and creating vehicles for change that can work in the interest of all of the students we represent, nationally and locally.
There’s a maximum cap on the event to ensure all SUs can meaningfully participate.
When is it?
Campaigns Exchange is taking place on Tuesday 19th November online. We'll kick off at 10am and run until 3pm.
At Campaigns Exchange you’ll:
Shape our national campaigns and democracy
- Feed into our democratic redesign
- Help us to identify our new campaign priorities
- Build the Liberation Collective together
Who is this for?
This event is open to sabbatical officers and NUS reps from across the UK
Our workshops
When you view the agenda you'll notice that we've dedicated time to a number of different types of workshops, all of which are designed to give attendees the best possible experience at Campiagns Exchange.
We will have focused workshops on:
- Democracy for our Future
NUS democracy should be our vehicle for change. It needs to strengthen our campaigns and build a student movement that wins. But as NUS UK continues to implement reform and following an evaluation of our 23/24 conferences, it’s clear it needs a revamp.
How can we make the process of generating new ideas and priorities more responsive and directly linked to students? How can students’ unions shape it meaningfully and see a clear line of influence between our democratic activity and national campaigning? And how can our democratic spaces best support that?
In this workshop we’ll share our thinking so far, and get your input into our democratic redesign that builds our power and influence as the national voice for students.
- Campaign Ideation
This term we’ve been conducting 1:1s with hundreds of sabbs and NUS reps to understand what you’re most passionate about, and we’ve been polling students on what matters most to them. In our ideation workshops we’ll share all the data we’ve got on the issues that most commonly come up, and generate ideas together on what national campaigns could look like. We’ll take all of these into our campaign planning period and launch.
- Liberation Collective
NUS Liberation Collective is our new UK-wide structure for students wanting to organise for liberation campaigning. This term we’ve been running co-design workshops to map regional networks of liberation activists and develop collective practice. In this workshop we’ll build on them to grow a national network of activists, and get your input into new ways of organising that best reflect what liberation activists do and aim to achieve in the student movement.
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