In the board meeting on the 2nd of December, the board had a constructive discussion about the work load and work division of the fulltimers and the board. Due to some discussions taking a long time, some matters regarding the Science Village Office were tabled for the next meeting. The board then made some decisions, approving of an Instagram account for KERUB and determining the Christmas vacation days for the fulltimers. This was followed by the president anchoring some matters for OK, and finally the board discussed the yearly Christmas card (and perhaps a custom wax seal…).

Yesterday on the 25th of November, the Parliament (RK) convened for its tenth meeting of the year. For the first time in a long while, the meeting was held in the conference room “Universum” at the Astronomy building. After a lot of reports and notifications, the first matter was by-elections, prepared by the once again existing Nomination Committee. RK decided to elect the nominees Gloria Kowal Johnson and Marwan Mohamed to the Mentor Committee (FU). Love Olsson candidated to FU at the meeting and was also elected. Robin Åström was elected to the Nomination Committee after candidating at the meeting.

The next matter was an ordinary election of a representative in the University Electoral College (Universitetskollegiet) that, irregularily, will have some meetings soon. Tom Brilioth candidated and was elected to this position. RK also approved of a presidium decision, previously approved by the board, to elect Tom Brilioth as a student representative/observer in the external review group of the new 1-year master program in environmental health and protection.

After this, the board working group for regulatory documents presented a first draft of the new Policy for Work Environment. The working group answered questions and RK discussed the draft, giving feedback to the working group. Then, RK decided to approve of the boards suggestion to replenish the LUNA funds, the Special Initiative Fund and the Office Inventory Fund. The decision was to replenish the funds in full, meaning to the ambition level set by RK in the Policy for Economy and Agreements.

Finally, as a miscellaneous matter a representative from SNG brought up the student council’s work with creating a Canvas page to communicate to their members. RK asked some questions and was positive to the idea, which will be brought up again.

The next and final meeting of the current parliament will be held on the 16th of December.

The 6th board meeting took place on the 16th of November. The board approved of the documents for RK 10 and decided on suggested meeting dates for RK in the spring semester. The board then discussed and made a suggestion to RK on the replenishment of the LUNA funds, the Special Initiative Fund and the Office Inventory Fund. After a discussion about some student issues, the board talked about the final board meeting of the semester combined with a Christmas dinner, and the upcoming LUS weekend at Lillsjödal.

A working group within the board is focusing on various aspects of the study environment this year. They have created an anonymous survey about students experience of distance education and the transition back to campus. There are questions about both the quality of education and about the effect on the students’ wellbeing. LUNA would be grateful if you would answer this survey, as the result will help us focus on the right things when working with the faculty and departments to improve the education and study environment. The results will also determine LUNA’s input to a university-wide investigation conducted by LUS.

Here is the link to the survey: https://forms.gle/LZJAxdiv4o8zhprs9

The fifth board meeting of the year took place on the 1st of November. In this meeting, the union made a new friend in Pelle, one of the student chaplains who came to the meeting to talk about the support they can offer the union’s members. Pelle will act as a contact person to LUNA and our members can talk to him when they for example are struggling with something. The board then approved of a presidium decision to elect Tom Brilioth as a student representative/observer in the external review group for the new 1 year master program in environmental and health protection. The board then had a first discussion initiated by a working group about the Policy for Work Environment that the working group will write. The board also discussed how to elect a representative to the University Electoral College as well as LUNA’s nominations for the LUS pedagogical prize.

The ninth Parliament meeting was held immediately after the previous elective parliament on October 28th. It was a short meeting where the Parliament elected two ballmasters to arrange the 2022 edition of Utopia, Honia Rasul and Sanela Lulic! The Parliament then approved of a board decision and some updates to regulatory documents, including establishing a LUNA Youtube channel in the Guideline for Information Channels.

On the 28th of October, an elective parliament was held to elect the Mentor Committee (FU) for their next term of office. The novisch activities of 2022 will be organized by the re-elected chairperson Caisa Kjellström together with committee members Vendela Gustafsson, Samuel Hjelm, Stina Magndal, Sofia Bjarheim and Daniel Olla. The Parliament put the remaining 4 seats as vacant.

The fourth board meeting of the year took place on 18th of October. The president was unfortunately feeling sick but joined the meeting via link. The vice president acted as chairperson of the meeting in her stead. The board spent some extra time on the reports and notifications from the internal working groups that have started their work, so that the entire board can keep up on what’s being done. The board then decided to elect Rebecca Svensson, a former TLTH fulltimer, as a student representative to the external review group for the masters program in Computational Science. Finally, a LUS Ting matter regarding the election of student representatives in the board of the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics was anchored with the board.

The 7th Parliament meeting on October 7th was the first physical meeting of the year and the first of the autumn semester. In the first part of the meeting, the parliament approved of some board decisions and held by-elections. The parliament decided to elect Samuel Hjelm as a Nomination Committee member, Alex Kuzmin as a Corporate Relations Committee and Information Committee member, Jenny Spiik as a Sports Committee member, Tindra Weichselbraun Alvander as a Faculty Readership Appointments Board alternate representative, Tom Brilioth as a representative to the AF Scholarship Board and Love Olsson as the LUS Nomination Committee alternate representative.

After a break with some well earned fika, the Parliament listened to the previous operational year’s presidium present the operational report, followed by the review from the operational auditors. After this, the Parliament decided to grant discharge to the previous union board. After this review of the past year, the Parliament looked ahead and was informed of the concretization of the current operational plan, after which some questions and discussion followed. Finally, the Parliament decided that the next parliament meeting will be an elective one immediately followed by a regular Parliament meeting on the 28th of October. In the Elective Parliament meeting, the chairperson and members of the Mentor Committee (FU) will be elected for the next term of office.

The third board meeting of the year took place on the 4th of October. In this relatively short board meeting, the board approved of the presidium decision to finally open up the union office and start having regular office hours. The board also discussed the possible establishment of a LUNA Youtube channel. A discussion was held after a request from the student representative in the Science Village Education Group. The board discussed the pros and cons of the LUNA representative focusing on and promoting different subjects in this group. Finally, the board discussed the vacant positions in the union and how to handle trying to fill these vacancies.