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

We are happy to announce that a lot of people have signed up to our introduction activities. However, we will have to pause the sign-up, in order to make sure that we can follow all Covid-19 regulations. We will hopefully release some more spots to the activities on Friday the 14th of August at 12:00.

Hi!
Have you been accepted to an education at the Faculty of Science for the fall of 2020? Then this is the right place for you. It is the page for the Science Student Union (sv: Lunds naturvetarkår), LUNA. The Science Student Union works for all science students, making sure that you as a student have a great time in Lund and that your rights are being upheld.

All new students at the Faculty of Science, both students who start a program or take single courses, are welcome to take part in our introduction activities. These will take place between the 26th of August and 12th of September. It will be a mix of competitions and chill events, were you will get to know Lund and your fellow students. Of course, all these events are adapted to the covid-19 regulations. You can find more information and sign up for the novisch activities at Novisch – New In Lund.

Studentlund Membership
To take part in most of the student life in Lund as well as some of the housing options you must be a member of Studentlund. Studentlund is a collaboration between Unions, Nations and the Academic Society so that one membership can give you access to a wide variety of activities and opportunities. You register to your Studentlund membership

Finding a Place to Live
It is important to start looking for a place to stay in Lund as soon as possible due to the high demand on student housing here. There is several housing options for student in Lund. You can apply to some of them through the links below:

AF Bostäder, Nations, BoPoolen

LU Accommodation (only international students)

If you have any questions or need help with anything, don’t hesitate to contact the Science Student Union at luna@luna.lu.se.

We are looking forward to meeting you on the 26th of August. Have a wonderful summer until then!

The union board 2019/20 had their last board meeting this Monday!
The Chairperson of the Education Committee visited to present a report on the survey on if the science students want a break during the year. The president presented a report on a survey on the science students’ thoughts on a broad education. Both reports will be implemented in the future work of the union. 

The board had a discussion about a draft of the new union budget that will be up for decision on the last parliament meeting of the operational year. It has previously been discussed that the board will have to move to a new office during the next operational year due to changes in the faculty office. The process is now further along and the president gave an update. 

The meeting was finished off with an extensive evaluation of the board meetings and the work of the board during the operational year. The board still has some work to finish up but concluded that it has been a fun year! 

The presidium and many of the union’s student representatives are working with the departments, the faculty, other unions, and the university to try to keep the quality of the education despite the change to distance education. To do so, the union needs to know as much as possible about your thoughts on your education.

Are there any issues with your distance education? Do you have any good experiences to share? Do you have any thoughts or concerns? Let us now through the page linked below!