ECSAS 2026

NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education - and EucA – European university college Association - are proud to announce the 8th annual European Conference for Student Affairs and Services (ECSAS), that will be held in Seville, Spain, on 11-13 November 2026.

The goal of the European Conference for Student Affairs and Services is to provide education, training, resources, and support to professionals working in student affairs and services roles in the European education area and beyond.

Student affairs and services should not operate on the margins of higher education — they sit at its core.

As institutions face rising demands around student mental health, international mobility, digital transformation, and post-pandemic engagement, the professionals who shape the everyday student experience and campus life must be recognized as integral to the educational mission itself.​

​ECSAS 2026 examines what it means to center student affairs and services within the higher education ecosystem: not as auxiliary support, but as a structural pillar that connects academic success, student well-being, institutional strategy, and societal responsibility.

From rethinking how we prepare globally fluent professionals, to modernizing engagement models on campuses that encourage more participation, to embedding well-being as a shared institutional commitment — this edition asks how we move student affairs from the periphery to the center of higher education decision-making.