European Dental Students' Association
Budget
€100,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
4
2.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The European Dental Students’ Association (EDSA) was founded in 1988 and represents the interests of more than 65,000 dental students from 182 dental schools in 35 different countries. The EDSA is a not-for-profit and apolitical organisation, which is run on a voluntary basis by students for students. We are open to all local or national dental students’ associations in the European region. EDSA’s goal is to raise a constant students’ point of view in national and European fora on a variety of topics relating to dentistry and dental education. Our main aim is to represent European dental students on educational, professional and social matters and to advocate for improvements in these areas. We aim to advocate for high-quality dental education that gives students good scientific, clinical and ethical training to provide holistic care to their patients, with a positive influence on population health. Acknowledging the different education systems across Europe.
EU Legislative Interests
The EDSA follows mainly education-related policy files. The main EU initiatives, policies and legislative files followed by EDSA are on topics related to: - Dimension and length of the dental curriculum - Quality of higher education - Recognition of skills and qualifications - Learning mobility - Content of the dental curriculum - Professional development - Continuous education - Pedagogy - Examination - Grade - Enrollment - Exclusion - Contact with the dental industry - Public health policy - Research Policy Examples of EU Directives and Regulations followed by EDSA: - Directive (EU) 2018/958 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 June 2018 on a proportionality test before adoption of new regulation of professions;
Communication Activities
We host two meetings per year in Spring and Summer for dental students. We run our European Visiting Programme, where dental students can visit faculties abroad in up to 16 locations. We host one student summer camp, with students participating in scientific, clinical and social activities. We run online prevention projects, such as those on oral health promotion, antimicrobial resistance and head and neck cancer. We release policy papers and position statements on topics relating to oral and general health. This is either on independently, or in collaboration with other European student organisations. We publish the EDSA Magazine two times per year. EDSA participates in events organised by European bodies debriefing EU policies relating to health, dentistry and dental education, in order to raise a students’ point of view. We also attend events by other European stakeholders, but we are not a member of any other representative bodies, and as students, we work for EDSA on a strictly voluntary basis.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
https://www.edsaweb.org/delegates
Organisation Members
https://www.edsaweb.org/partners
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.