What is the YUFE Student Forum?
The YUFE Student Forum gives students a real voice in shaping the YUFE Alliance and its vision for a truly inclusive European University. Here’s what you should know:
🎓 Made up of students – Each YUFE university has 3 student representatives in the Forum
🗣️ Student perspective first – The Forum ensures that student needs and ideas are central to all YUFE decisions
🤝 Working together – Forum members collaborate with staff in YUFE’s working groups and planning teams
🌍 Pan-European teamwork – Students from across Europe help guide how YUFE grows and evolves
💡 From vision to reality – The Forum has been involved since the very beginning, turning ideas into action
The Student Forum plays a key role in making YUFE student-centred, inclusive, and open to all.
The role of a Student Forum member takes many forms
In September 2025, a new Student Forum team started their UAntwerp representation in the YUFE Alliance—Enes, Elisa, and Zeyneb will be taking the reins from Julia, Nassim, and Arne.
As part of the YUFE Student Forum, they’re not just representing YUFE students on our campus—they’re the voice of all UAntwerp students in this European university network.
Their role?
Gather and share your input with the wider YUFE Student Forum
Work with student reps from other YUFE universities to influence the alliance’s direction
Co-develop real initiatives by joining one of the YUFE working groups
Shape student involvement in YUFE through internal governance and active collaboration
Just like our Studentenraad, the YUFE Student Forum works on structure, teamwork, and making sure student participation is taken seriously — across borders.
Meet Elisa - UAntwerp representative and Student Forum Secretary
Elisa Mames Antuna is a master's student in Professional Communication and Management, specializing in Marketing and studying Spanish and German as languages. Her interest in cultures and languages, as well as in the future of students at European universities, are the reasons why she took on a mandate at YUFE. With her multilingualism, intercultural experience, and focus on inclusivity, she wants to actively contribute to strengthening the voice and cooperation between students from diverse backgrounds.
She sees YUFE as a platform for creating opportunities and broadening perspectives, both for herself and for others.
True to her belief to take chances where they arise, she applied for a position on the Student Forum Board. We are very proud to have Elisa as YUFE Student Forum Secretary amongst our members!
Meet Enes - UAntwerp representative
Enes Domi joined the YUFE Student Forum because he believes in the power of international cooperation and intercultural learning. As a student of Applied Linguistics, he sees YUFE as an ideal environment to utilise his multilingual background and broaden his European perspective. Through the Student Forum, he comes into contact with students from diverse cultures and actively contributes to an inclusive and open community. For Enes, his role within YUFE is a meaningful step in both his personal and professional development.
Meet Zeyneb - UAntwerp representative
Zeyneb El Attabi is a bachelor’s student in Law who strongly believes in the power of diversity to make a real difference at the European level. She chose to join the YUFE Student Forum because she is convinced that her diverse background can help bridge differences and literally build connections between people from all walks of life. With empathy, understanding, and an open mind, she fulfils her mandate within the YUFE Student Forum. This mandate means a great deal to her, it is an opportunity to work alongside other students, each with their own cultural background, to make Europe a better and more inclusive place. It is a chance she embraces wholeheartedly. Zeyneb believes that being different is not necessarily wrong; different is needed for the sake of humanity.
More about the Student Forum - alliance wide
Read more about the YUFE Student Forum on the YUFE website.