The Western University of Timișoara hosted, for three days, in the A11 Amphitheater, the General Assembly of the National Student Council (CNE), an event attended by over a hundred participating students from all the counties of the country.

The three-day program of the CNE annual statutory meeting included annual elections for the management of the organization, with an Executive Committee and a new CNE president being appointed.

On Thursday, January 5, 2023, starting at 17:00 p.m., on the first day of the program of the General Assembly of the National Student Council (CNE), the official opening took place, during which Mrs. Ligia Deca, the Minister of Education (intervention online), Mrs. Diana-Loreta Păun, Presidential Advisor (intervention online), Mr. Eduard Petrescu, Program Specialist, UNICEF Romania (intervention online), Prof. Univ. Dr. Marilen Pirtea, rector of the Western University of Timișoara, Mr. Dominic Fritz, Mayor of the Municipality of Timișoara, Mrs. Andreea Argeșeanu, Vice-President of the National Alliance of Student Organizations from Romania and Robert Avram, President of CNE.

The rector of UVT, Marilen Pirtea: "The National Council of Students is an authentic voice that expresses in an organized manner the real interests of local structures representative of student organizations. UVT happily hosts this annual general assembly of the representative forum of the CNE and supports the values ​​of involvement, responsibility and freedom of expression in Romanian education, especially for the development of education and performance in the pre-university school environment, for which the energy and creativity of students are becoming increasingly important. "