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On the 10th of June, Deputy Lead Junior Ambassador for Seevic Campus Sebastian Rapley Mende organised, alongside USP College librarian Mel Ballard, a Q&A session at USP College with Estates Manager James McInroy, that was open to all students, on the topic of sustainability within the college. After the highly successful EPAS Earth Day Climate Survey, Sebastian decided to bring the conclusions from this survey to the attention of the senior management team at USP College.

To mark Earth Day on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 and Europe Day in May, a climate survey was conducted by students in the EPAS (European Parliamentary Ambassador School) Programme at USP College and members of the USP College Student Union, to collect data on what students and staff felt about the environment, climate change and sustainability both inside the college and in the wider world.

On the 14th of May, Sebastian Rapley Mende, deputy lead European Parliament junior ambassador for USP College Seevic Campus, attended an event hosted by the European Parliament Liaison Office in London at Europe House, called "Mapping the City – European writers in London". This event was also supported by University College London (UCL) to promote their new European Literary Map of London, as well as their public exhibition "Lost & Found".

Yesterday (19 May 2025), Prime Minister Keir Starmer and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced a ground-breaking new deal between the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU). Widely praised and supported by the people of both unions, the deal commits them to several initiatives, including a new youth mobility scheme, a security and defence partnership, and easier entry for British nationals into EU countries, among others.

Happy Europe Day! As we come together today to commemorate unity and peace across the continent of Europe, let's look back at what the EPAS team at USP College have done to celebrate the occasion.

Yesterday (29th April 2025), USP College European Parliament Junior Ambassadors and A-Level politics students went on a trip to the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, London.

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a European-wide initiative to support farmers and rural areas across the European Union (EU), to both make farmers more competitive and sustainable. It also helps provide high quality and safe food to the EU's 447 million citizens, whilst also contributing to climate action and preserving various natural resources.

Unified Seevic Palmer's College is one of the oldest educational institutions in the entirety of Great Britain, having been founded in 1706 as a tiny charity school for ten poor children in Grays. It has evolved through the centuries, becoming an esteemed grammar school and two nationally prestigious public schools, before finally transforming into the large college of over 4,000 students that it is today.

Yesterday (17 April 2025), two of our EPAS junior ambassadors, Jayden O'Brien and Erdem Gultekin, attended a trip to the Thameside Complex in Grays to see an exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day, which entailed the Nazi German surrender to Allied forces on 8 May 1945 and signalled the end of the European theatre of the Second World War later that month.

For USP College's first CPD day of the academic year on 24th October 2024, students from our Palmer's and Seevic campuses joined our ambassadors on an educational trip to Europe House in Westminster, hosted by EPAS UK co-ordinator Asher Jacobsberg, where students took part in fun, educational activities about the European Union, European Parliament and European democracy.