Sègla Noël Espérant SINTONDJI
Bureau Directeur du Comité des Résidents (BD-CR) | BENIN
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Hello dear members of the International Student Council. I would like to start by thanking allthe participants in this meeting, who are sparingno effort so that we can come together in a Council of a global or even universal nature. Withoutfurther ado, I would like to make some proposalsaimed at spreading and expanding this Councilthrough the creation of subcouncils in our universities and university centres, in order to givethis council influence and vitality. And thesesub-councils will remain as fundamental andsolid bases of the International Student Council in these universities and university centres.Their permanence and active functioning in theuniversities will give the Council a physical existence and will materialise the efforts that weare making today and that will be made tomorrow by the Council. In addition to this, if on eachcontinent, we can have regional or even globalmeetings between the members of the Councilto share experiences and knowledge, that wouldbe very good. This will give even more visibilityand hegemony to the Council, which could laterbecome the world’s largest student federation.Students around the world need such a networkto be connected to each other, in order to betterunderstand the irregularities or advances that each university experiences in various fields. In this way, students can learn from each other’s progress and advances or make suggestions to help those who may be in difficulty. This inter-university connection also has other advantages in terms of interculturality and scientific research in many fields. In addition, the said Council may also create sub-forums byresearch fields to truly realise effective and efficient scientific exchanges between students, inorder to begin by evaluating and preparing toface the great scientific challenges that humanityfaces today and for which preparing, preparingor preventing it has faced in the near or distantfuture. Globalisation requires us to work together, as we have just seen with COVID-19. It is notjust the third world that can be confronted withan epidemic. It is the whole of humanity and thewhole world has noticed that the populations ofthe third world were not the most devastated bythis pandemic. On the contrary, they were theleast devastated, so it is time for the industrialised world to ask questions and also learn fromothers how to control such situations or similarunforeseen events. Hence the importance of ouracademic and scientific collaborations.
rade union collaboration must focus on the defence of human and fundamental rights. In other words, we must be able to join forces at the institutional level to ensure that these rights are respected, whatever the political constraints we face. Together we are strong, as they say!
