Student relations 1 ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** 1a: Cooperation between Student Ombudsperson and Student Representatives: what model? Jorge A.Ribeiro Pereira (Portugal), Anna-Katharina Rothwangl (Austria) The cooperation between Student Ombudspersons (SO) and Student Unions/Student Representati important for academic community wellbeing and to help SO (re)think their activity. During the last 4 months of 2022, the authors promote the advantages and challenges of thi in different forums. The discussion upon this topic was fruitful and some broader/empiric conceived. Moreover, ENOHE promote a webinar on this topic and nowadays this is becoming a relevant t action of both SO and SU. The authors aim to share their experience and contributions they collected on this matter Ombudspersons in Higher Education (re)shape ways of increasing the SU inputs in Higher Edu Institutions/System. Presenter(s): Jorge A.Ribeiro Pereira: Student Ombudsperson Anna-Katharina Rothwangl: Provisional Austrian Student Ombudswoman 1b: Balance power structure at meetings with management by inviting student politicians BoGad K?hlert (Denmark) As Ombuds, you have probably attended multiple meetings over the years with managers from where some of your findings and recommendations were frowned upon at best or discarded wit worst. I suggest that you start inviting student politicians to such meetings. Somehow it balance to the power structure of such meetings and seems to make decision makers listen m During my presentation, I will sum up my experiences of having gone througha fixed meeting my annual reports 2021 and 2022 with student politicians as mandatory meeting attendees. T structure was endorsed by top management at my institution in 2020. Presenter(s): BoGad K?hlert: Student Ambassador