Student self-governance is an important element of civil society, because it is precisely thanks to it that leaders and organizers are formed in the student environment, initiative and ambitious youth stand out, and active citizens are educated.\n\nToday, unfortunately, the authorities assign only a minor role to this form of public activity of young people. Students are remembered only during the celebration of September 1 or Student Day.\n\nAt the same time, the student movement is inactive and fragmented, student organizations of different universities do not interact with each other, and accordingly help each other little, and do not solve student problems of local and regional scale.\n\nAn urgent need for the student movement of the region is the coordination of efforts and consolidation of active students for the development and popularization of student self-governance. It is very important that the leading role in this work belongs specifically to students. Because only then will this activity be interesting and understandable for them.\n\nTherefore, we support the activities of student councils or other student coordination bodies that strengthen student self-governance in the region.\n\nAt the same time, a number of public figures use the ideas of student self-governance to realize their own mercantile interests.\n\nWe consider wrong the situation in which the Student Council under the head of the regional state administration has long been headed not by students, but by politicians and officials.\n\nLet us recall that on May 30, 2007, as a result of a meeting of the renewed Student Council under the head of the regional state administration, the leadership of the Student Council was formed. The head became a deputy of the Volyn Regional Council, Ihor Huz. His deputies - the deputy of the Department for Youth and Sports Affairs, Ihor Dmytryshyn, and student Pavlo Danylcuk.\n\nAlso alarming is the method of electing the leadership of this council - appointment from above instead of election from below. After all, this is exactly how the election of the council's leadership that took place "as a result of joint discussion" can be characterized. There were no elections. This is a continuation of the "old methods" of management that were used in the recent past.\n\nTherefore we call for:\n1. Deputy of the Volyn Regional Council Ihor Huz and deputy of the Department for Youth and Sports Affairs Ihor Dmytryshyn to resign from the powers of head and deputy head of the Student Council under the head of the regional state administration and to withdraw from its membership, as persons who are not students.\n\n2. To hold a new meeting of the Student Council at which students will independently elect from among their members the Head and deputies.\n\n3. Representatives of the authorities, that is, deputies and officials, to promote in every way the work of the Student Council by assisting technically in holding meetings and events of the council, as well as by involving representatives of the Student Council in the work of the relevant deputy commission of the regional council and the department for youth and sports affairs in the formation of special youth programs, holding student events and planning budget expenditures for youth policy.\n\n4. Representatives of the NGO "National Alliance" to abandon the practice of "using" the ideas and programs of other public organizations, since these actions are interpreted as ordinary plagiarism.\n\nWe call on all concerned students:\n1. To take an active part in the work of student self-governance bodies and other student organizations of their own educational institution.\n\n2. To show concern and initiative in organizing their own education, search for future work, recreation and health improvement.\n\n3. To join the work of youth public organizations and consultative and advisory councils under the authorities, with the aim of defending the interests of the students of the region.\n\n4. Not to be afraid to express their own position on topical issues of student life both before the leadership of their own educational institution and before representatives of the authorities, in order to influence by the strength of their own position the decision-making process concerning students.\n\nHead of the Volyn Regional Youth Public Organization\n"Association of Young Reformers (AMoRe)" Mykhailo Shelep