OBESSU, the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions, symbolically sent a letter of request for an observatory status on International Day of Students 2013 to the Council of Europe. OBESSU board was given the possibility to present the organisation to the last Council of Europe Steering Committee for Education Policy and Practice (CDPPE) meeting in March that accepted OBESSU as an observer, while on the European Student Union (ESU) was in this position so far. This is a great recognition of the fact that OBESSU is considered a representative organisation in the field of secondary school education. See the full article here.