The board held its fifth meeting of the operational year yesterday. During the meeting, the mentor committee presented the results of the novisch period evaluation. The board had discussions regarding some regulatory documents and regarding the possibilities to get a third fulltimer. It was also decided the vice president Overleaf account shall be upgraded to Overleaf premium. Lastly, there was a discussions regarding to how the union shall adapt to the new covid-19 recommendations and about what will happen if the situation get worse.

The parliament convened for two meetings yesterday evening. The first meeting was an elective meeting, were chairperson and members of the mentor committee for the period 1/11-20 – 31/10-21 were elected. The parliament elected Caisa Kjellström as chairperson for the committee and Daniel Olla, Hanna Sjö, Vendela Gustafsson, Victoria Ullbin, Samuel Dawes, Samuel Hjelm, Stina Magndal and Rasmus Eklund as members of the mentor committee.

The second meeting was an ordinary parliament meeting. It began with by-elections. The parliament elected the following people to the following positions:

Victoria Ullbin – ball master

Alex Kuzmin – information committee member

Kuzey Yanartas – sports committee chairperson

David Linfeldt and Elias Östman – sports committee members

Tom Brilioth (ordinary), Victor Hrannar Jónsson (alternate) – LUS elective ting

Einar Elén – Archive administrator and active member registry administrator

Apart from the elections, the board for the operational year 2019/20 was granted discharge. The parliament did also decide upon a parliament patch to order and approved a motion regarding changes in the guidelines for graphical profile.

Parliament meeting 8a and 8b will take place on Wednesday the 14th of October. You can find all the documents for the meeting if you follow the link bellow. If you want to counter candidate for any position to the meeting, send an email with your counter candidature to valb-ordf@luna.lu.se before Monday the 12th at 23:59. We will continuously update the web page with the counter candidatures. To the meeting, the nomination committee has nominated the following persons:

Mentor committee chairperson (1+0): Caisa Kjellström

Mentor committee member (9+0): Daniel Olla, Vendela Gustafsson, Rasmus Eklund, Samuel Dawes, Victoria Ullbin, Hanna Sjö, Stina Magndal, Samuel Hjelm

Ball master (1+0): Victoria Ullbin

Information committee member (2+0): Alex Kuzmin

Sports committee chairperson (1+0): Kuzey Yanartas

Sports committee member (3+0): David Linfeldt, Elias Östman

LUS elective ting (2+2): Tom Brilioth

Counter candidatures:
LUS Elective Ting (2+2): Viktor Hrannar Jónsson – alternate

Active member registry administrator (1+0): Einar Elén

Archive administrator (1+0): Einar Elén

Here you can find all the documents for the parliament meetings:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gsUrDtPPEqFcW95_zqC2Irw488Izk4U5?usp=sharing

Yesterday, the board convened for its fourth meeting of this operational year. During the meeting, there were discussions about future office investments, as well as about buying mobile phones to the presidium. Furthermore, the documents for the upcoming parliament meeting were approved. Working group 4 did also get input on their survey about union events, which soon will be released to all union members. Lastly, Simon had baked a delicious carrot cake, which the board happily ate!

This Tuesday, the board convened for its third meeting this autumn. During this meeting, the new board members Titus Farkas and Serena Dorner were welcomed to the board and introduced to its work. Furthermore, the board decided upon an Instagram account for the party committee and approved on a new support member. We were also visited by the spokespersons of the gender and equality committee, who presented their work. Lastly, there was a discussion about animal testing and Elin served us all a very nice cheesecake.

The first parliament meeting after the summer was held yesterday. During the meeting Titus Farkas was elected as Head of corporate relations, Serena Dorner as board member and Tindra Weichselbraun Alvander as ball master. Furthermore, the environmental committee got a chairperson in Patricija Marijauskaité, the information committee got a new member in Stina Magndal and the sports committee got two new members, Kuzey Yanartas and Marnus Kleynhans. Lastly, Daniel Olla was elected as a representative in LUS nominating committee, Viktor Hrannar Jónsson was elected as a student representative in AF Parliament and the faculty nominating committee and Elvira Källberg was elected as a student representative in the faculty readership appointments committee and AF scholarship board.

Apart from having elections, the parliament approved upon board decisions taken during the summer, and discussed the winter break investigation done by the education committee during the previous operational year. Furthermore, the jubilee masters held a presentation of their plans for the unions 25 years jubilee, and their positions were extended until summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic making the celebrations complicated during the autumn. Last but not least, the current and past offices got named. The office in the Astronomy building got the name “IO” and the current office in the geology building got the name “The Caves”.

The 7th parliament meeting 2020 will take place on Tuesday the 22nd of September. You can find all the documents for the meeting if you follow the link bellow. If you want to counter candidate for any position to the meeting, send an email with your counter candidature to valb-ordf@luna.lu.se before Sunday the 20th at 23:59. We will continuously update the web page with the counter candidatures. To the meeting, the nomination committee has nominated the following persons:

Head of corporate relations (1+0) – Love Olsson

Board member (1+0) – Serena Dorner

Sports committee member (5+0) – Kuzey Yanartas, Marnus Kleynhans

Environmental committee chairperson (1+0) – Patricija Marijauskaité

Ball master (2+0) – Tindra Weichselbraun Alvander

LUS nomination committee representative (1+0) – Daniel Olla

Academic society parliament (1+1) – Viktor Hrannar Jónsson

Faculty nominating committee (1+0) – Viktor Hrannar Jónsson

Faculty readership appointments committee (1+0) – Elvira Källberg

Furthermore, we have received the following counter candidatures to the meeting:

Academic society scholarship board (1+1) – Elvira Källberg

Information committee member (3+0) – Stina Magndal

Head of corporate relations (1+0) – Titus Farkas

Here you can find all the documents for the parliament meeting:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Odv7m4fQcEOKHaNxImpl8rIcIsBKudSK?usp=sharing

Yesterday, the board convened for their second board meeting of the year. During the meeting, eight working groups that will work with different parts of the operational plan were formed. The board did also approve upon the concretization of the operational plan, as well as upon the per capsulam decisions which were taken during the summer. Elin Sandvik was elected to a working group that will discuss the students work regarding Science Village Scandinavia at the university and Johan Edlund was welcomed as support member in the union. Furthermore, the documents for next weeks parliament meeting was approved upon, the jubilee of Studentlund was discussed and the kick-off for the board was discussed. Last but not least, delicious chocolate pie was served and everyone was happy!

Last week, the board had its first meeting of this operational year. During the meeting, the operational plan of this operational year was concretizised and the updated crisis management plan was approved. Furthermore, Elin Sandvik was elected as employer liable and there was discussions about how to fill the two vacancies in the board.

If you have any questions regarding the work done by the board or want to discuss something with us, don’t hesitate to contact luna@luna.lu.se.

We are sad to announce that we have to close the sign up for the introduction activities. The current regulations due to Covid-19 from both the government and the university makes it impossible for us to include all new science students in our activities. This is of course nothing that we would like to do, but we are not enough mentors to be able to divide all new students in small groups. We have also problems with finding enough locations were we can meet and keep distance at the same time. To make sure that the introduction activities are safe for everyone who attend them, we have therefore decided to close the sign up.

Even though you are not able to attend the introduction activities, you are always welcome to the union if you have any questions regarding you education, if you face any problems or if you just want a chat and a cup of coffee. You can reach us via email to luna@luna.lu.se or come by our office at Sölvegatan 12, the entrance towards Gerdahallen. You can also visit our Facebook page here. This is were we will post information about future happenings for science students.

All science students do also belong to a student council, which represent and organize events for students at the different educations. More information about them can be found at their Facebook pages and you can also reach them via email. If you want to get in contact in students at your own education, it is always good to turn to your student council. You find information about which student council you belong to bellow:

BUG – biologists and molecular biologists, email: bug-ordf@luna.lu.se, BUG Facebook

GLuFS – physicists, theorethical physicists, radiation physicits, astronomists, email: glufs-ordf@luna.lu.se, GLuFS Facebook

KERUB – Chemists and chemists/molecular biologists, email: kerub-ordf@luna.lu.se, KERUB Facebook

MUR – mathematicians, email: mur-ordf@luna.lu.se, MUR Facebook

MYS – environmental scientists, environmental and health protectionists, email: mys-ordf@luna.lu.se, MYS Facebook

SNG – physical geographers and geologists, email: sng-ordf@luna.lu.se, SNG Facebook