European School Heads Association
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
1
0.1 FTE
EU Grants
€347,384
Mission & Goals
The association aims to: a. influence European education policy; b. be a vehicle for relevant European programs; c. maintaining the various member organizations; d. improving the quality of European school leadership; e. expanding her professional influence in the rest of the world; f. identifying, promoting and exchanging competence-oriented education in school leadership, and furthermore everything that is directly or indirectly related or for that purpose can be beneficial, all in the broadest sense of the word.
EU Legislative Interests
ESHA has her focus and objectives in the policyfield of education and educational leadership. On all topics where education is connected it also includes relevant topics in the field of diversity, inclusion, participation, wellbeing, human rights/ childrens rights, sustainability, digitalization and gender.The Policyrecommendations and activities of ESHA will contribute to the implementation of the following EU policies at national, regional and local levels: European Pillar of Social Rights; UN Sustainable Development Goals on education; European Commission’s Communication on Achieving the European Education Area by 2025 and the Council Resolution on a strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training towards the European Education Area and beyond (2021-2030) and the Green Deal/ Green Comp.
Communication Activities
ESHA is a memberorganization in a networkstructure active in 28 European countries connecting over 125.000 school heads. There is a minimum of 2 General Assembly meetings per year, there are (digital) networkmeetings, there is an European Biennial conference for school leaders and ESHA communicates through a website, twitter, instagram and linkedin account and has regular newsletters and 3 times a year a professional magazine. ESHA also connects to national and regional conferences of her members. ESHA is involved in several European projects where policyrecommendations are made. ESHA was coordinator of the European Educational Policy Network (EEPN) that did the following policyrecommendations: https://educationpolicynetwork.eu/policy-recommendations/ On the esha website there are positionpapers https://www.esha.org/about-esha/position-papers/ And the most recent policyrecommendation is https://www.esha.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Policyletter-to-European-policymakers-in-education.pdf
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
https://lllplatform.eu/
Organisation Members
https://www.esha.org/about#members
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.