Explanation: 0 = no comment; 1 = rejection; 2 = strong reservations, but no rejection; 3 = approval with certain reservations, 4 = full approval

National Unions of Students in Europe (ESIB)

ESIB is the student organisation that from the start accompanied the Bologna process attentively and critically. In the Brussels Student Declaration (November 2001), ESIB recalls that the Bologna process requires more than educational, structural and institutional changes: ESIB underlines the importance of the social dimension of higher education, the need to create a democratic and inclusive system of higher education that promotes students' well-being. A condition for this is a coherent social educational policy on two levels: BEFORE higher education (access to HE) and DURING higher education (full access to state welfare, elimination of discriminations).

Students should be regarded as a core part of higher education, not as consumers (as the GATS would see them).

Mobility is one of the corner stones of the European Higher Education Area, but the latter will aggravate present social inequalities if the social dimension is not taken into account.