Students Beatriz de Sousa Rodrigues and Pau Maza y Díaz, new spokespersons for SURE!, the Unite! student council

SURE! (Students in Unite for Representation and Empowerment!) has introduced its two new spokespersons coinciding with the new phase of the alliance. They are Beatriz de Sousa Rodrigues, from ULisboa and Pau Maza, student at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC). SURE! is the student representative body of the alliance and as such participates in the Unite! Steering Committee. Unite! SURE! offers students from the nine Unite! partner universities the opportunity to co-create and engage with their peers from other European universities, who can then participate in the decisions and projects implemented by the alliance. 

Beatriz de Sousa Rodrigues is a student at the Faculty of Pharmacy of ULisboa, where she is studying for a Master's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Involved in associationism, she is the vice-president of external relations of the local student association and has organized European events for university students. She recently joined SURE! and in doing so, she participated in the Unite! Dialogue in Torino last September.  

Pau Maza is a student of Telecommunications Engineering, Audiovisual Systems at the UPC campus in Terrassa (Barcelona). He has participated in different representative bodies in his school and in the University as coordinator of the Student Council, member of the University Senate, of the Development Cooperation Council and the Quality Commission, among others. He has also been a member of the executive committee of the Student Council of Catalonia. Pau is a member of CLUSTER and has been a member of SURE!, since November 2021.

New challenges for students in Unite! 

"For this new phase of the alliance students want to lay the foundations for the future of SURE! through the creation of our Founding Statutes and the internal documentation for all the procedures that must take place within SURE!", comment the new spokespersons, who add that "SURE! must consolidate in the alliance with the aim that students have a more proactive role, participating in initiatives such as the Working Groups of Seed Funds for Student Activities, Research and Doctorate and Teaching and Learning". For them the future of Unite! "is very promising and we will do our best to maintain the great relationship between all the agencies and SURE!". 

Source: Unite!