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February 10, 2026

For a More Holistic Focus on Education – Enhancing the “Union of Equality” Strategy 2021-2030

Sampo Kolu, our youngest advisory board member, has formally submitted his response to the European Commission’s consultation on “Enhancing the EU Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

“As a person with a physical disability, my personal experience has shown me how systems designed for a ‘norm’ can fail individuals who fall outside it, whom society perceives to be outliers, even when they are fully ready and able to contribute intellectually”

Here his full analysis and proposals.

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QUEST’S Response to the European Commission’s Call for Evidence on New Education Package

This submission responds jointly to the three linked initiatives open for evidence : - Strengthening basic skills and improving performance in school education - EU Teachers Agenda: Enhancing the attractiveness of the education and training profession - Quality education for all: a 2040 roadmap

The Reclaiming Education Toolkit

This toolkit wants to demystify EU advocacy and help you navigate local and European decision-making, so that your school / organisation can raise their concerns and visions for education at different levels.

The Change We Want: A Manifesto by Rural Young People in Europe

At QUEST, we believe young people don’t need adults to translate what they want to say. Too often, they are tokenised, routinely consulted to check a box, yet shut out from meaningful decision-making on the very issues that shape their lives. They need real space to say it, and real doors opened to the people who can act on it. Giving rural youth the room to define their own demands, in their own words and their own format, and then walking those demands into institutions like the EESC and the Committee of the Regions, is exactly the kind of empowerment we exist to make possible.