All of our work is done by members of ENSA on a voluntary base

Important key points of the history of ENSA:

Before 2006
- Informal network of the organizations that founded ENSA
2006
- Founding and first elected board of the European Nursing Students Association
- President from Ireland
- First constitution was discussed
2007
- Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Dublin -> Approval of the constitution of ENSA
- Strengthening the bound with EFN and ICN
2008
- Joint Statement with ESN, EFN and ICN on “Synergy between Directive 36, Bologna and European Qualification Framework”
2009
- President from the UK was elected (New elected president statement)
2011
- AGM in Copenhagen
- Constitution review, seeking closer contact with countries who are represented yet, Updated Contact list
- Creating of the ENSA Facebook page
- ENSA participated as speaker at the ICN Student Network Conference in Malta
- Corresponding with the European Commission on EU Directive (EU/36/2005) regulation the training of nurses
2013
- AGM in Istanbul and New governance structure implemented (held with EFN; New governmental structure for ENSA)
2014
- AGM in Dublin (Invitation AGM 2014)
  - Main theme “The importance of men in nursing”
- ENSA became a registered organization
- Signed ENSA constitution and opened bank account in Brussels – ENSA become a official stakeholder at EU level (ENSA become an official stakeholder)
2015
- AGM in London (Information package for the AGM 2015)
  - Conference about interprofessional collaboration
  - Update of internal regulation
  - Old + new board attended the EFN meeting
2016
- Attended EHSAS (European Healthcare Students´ Association Summit) in Brussels (EHSAS 2016)
  - Joint Policy Paper on interprofessional education
2017
- AGM in Brussels (Summary in German and English quotes: Summary AGM 2017)
- Attending ICN Nursing Student Assembly (Report ICN Student Assembly 2017))
  - Alongside 200 students from 36 countries
  - Presentation about “Innovation and challenges in nursing: European perspective”
2019
- Attended the 110^th General Assembly of the EFN in Athens (Overview 110^th GA of the EFN)
  - Including Nurses in the design of new digital health tools
2020
- Nursing Now campaign launched in Russia (ICN overview about Nursing Now launch in Russia)
  - Virtually launch of the campaign
2021
- Hold “Multiplier Event: Quality Mentorship for Developing Competent Nursing Students” together with the EFN (program of the event)
2023
- Attended Coalition for Vaccination Meeting 2023 – IMMUNION Project (Minutes of the Meeting 2023)
- Attended Youth Policy Dialogue with European Commissioner Stella Kyriakides (Overview Policy Youth Dialogue European Union)
- Attended EFN Meeting in Croatia (116th General Assembly)
- Attended the World Mental Health Conference in Brussels (Programm World Mental Health Conference)
- Multiple Webinars as hosts and attendees from the WHO, ICN and EFN
2024
- Attended the EFN Spring General Assembly in April
- Joint position paper on medicine shortages from EPSA, eahp, efpsa and ENSA (Position paper)