Two teachers at the Faculty of Science have this week won the university pedagogical prize! LUNA want to congratulate Charlotte Sparrenbom at the geology department and Paul McMillan at the department for astronomy and theoretical physics. You are both amazing teachers and you really deserve the prize!

The university pedagogical prize is each year appointed to three teachers at the university. All student unions can nominate teachers to the prize.

Yesterday, the parliament convened for its last meeting during 2020. This was also the last meeting for the current parliament presidium and parliament representatives. The student councils are electing new parliament representatives at their December grand meetings, and a new parliament presidium was elected at the meeting yesterday. During year 2021, Sanela Lulic will be the chairperson and Sebastian Pfaff will be the secretary of the parliament.

Apart from this, four other elections were made during the parliament meeting. Elisa von Kobyletzki was elected as spokesperson for the gender and equality committee, Sofia Bjarheim was elected as Tandem general, Viktor Hrannar Jónsson was elected as SFS-FUM representative and Elvira Källberg was elected as alternate representative in LUS elective Ting.

Apart from elections, the parliament approved upon an addition to the union opinion document. The addition adds opinions regarding hiring of teachers at the faculty. The parliament did also approve of the addition of an internal committee structure in the mentor committee directives, as well as some changes in the policy for regulatory documents.

Finally, the presidium want to thank everyone who has been part of the parliament during 2020. You have all done a fantastic job, bot the representatives and the presidium! We hope to see you all around!

Parliament meeting 10 will take place on Wednesday the 9th of December. 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 7th 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:

Parliament chairperson (1+1): Sanela Lulic

Tandem General (3+0): Sofia Bjarheim

SFS-FUM representative (3+0): Viktor Hrannar Jónsson

Gender and Equality Committee Spokesperson (1+0):  Elisa von Kobyletzki

Counter candidatures:

LUS Elective Ting (1+1) – Elvira Källberg (alternate)

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

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IqErZ67OUnQN_gLbWAZwyJzNtvTZJWL4?usp=sharing

Yesterday the board convened for another board meeting. During this meeting, the latest news regarding the covid-19 situation was discussed. There was also a discussion regarding a newsletter for Studentlund, one discussion about study monitoring of the scientific base year in Helsingborg, and one discussion regarding a Tellus project about sexual harassments within the student life. Furthermore, the documents for parliament meeting 10 were approved upon and a decision regarding leave of absence during Christmas for the presidium was taken. Finally, the board discussed how LUNA can participate in Musikhjälpen during the current covid-19 circumstances.

Yesterday, the board convened for another board meeting. During the meeting, the board discussed the upcoming election of the new deputy vice chancellor of the university. There was also discussions regarding the new covid-19 regulations from the government and how the university should adapt to those. Furthermore, the board got a presentation of the results from the event survey which one of the working groups within the board has conducted. There was also discussions regarding coming updates of the directives for the party committee and the mentor committee.

During the ninth parliament meeting of the year, the parliament discussed which opinions the union should have regarding teachers recruitment and pedagogics. Furthermore, the parliament approved upon the decision taken by the board regarding the unions adaptions to the new covid-19 regulations. The parliament did also approve of a statue revision in the first reading. The second and final reading will be done after Christmas, before the revision is completed. The parliament did also approve upon changes in the guideline for information channels, and they were informed about changes in the directives for the corporate relations committee, the gender and equality committee and the health, environment and safety committee. Finally, Viktor reported from the extra SFS-FUM meeting, which were held with unions from all over Sweden in October.

The autumn has arrived and brought the LUNA Pop-up shop with it. It might just be high time to place the order on the merchandise you’ve always wanted or take care of your Christmas shopping well in advance!

Some of our merch is exclusive to only the Pop-up shop which this time closes on Nov. 22nd, so make sure to place your order today!

Parliament meeting nine will take place on Tuesday, the 10th of November. You can find the documents for the parliament meeting through the link bellow. We have not received any candidatures to this parliament meeting, but you are still able to counter candidate to a vacant position until the 8th of November. This is done through sending an email to valb.ordf@luna.lu.se. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pGGkzksOTh6JDN9ltGBkwJbDKUtV0DAp?usp=sharing

This Wednesday, the board convened for its sixth board meeting during this operational year. During the meeting, the board had discussions regarding covid-19 and decided to buy a conference phone to make it easier to host hybrid meetings. The board did also approve of the documents for parliament meeting 9. Furthermore, there were discussions about sending out a survey to the students regarding their experience of the current hybrid education, and about the structure and goals of the party committee. Lastly, the board started to plan this years Christmas card, stay tuned!

The board has tonight convened and discussed the new covid-19 regulations. After the discussions, we decided to do some changes in the current operation of the union. We are very sorry about this and hope that we soon can go back to more normal again, but currently, we have to stay safe and follow the regulations. The following changes will be done:

• All physical events will be cancelled until further directions are given by the government or region. We do however appreciate if the union can organise fun digital events. The board will do their best and encourage you to give us any ideas you might have! 
• We recommend that meetings are held digitally. However, if all members of a committee are comfortable with having physical meetings and meet each other often, then the meetings can be held physically. This is not the case for the student councils since their meetings are open for everyone. This applies until further directions are given by the government or the region.
• The office hours will be closed until further directives are given by the government or the region. However, you can reach the presidium through email and book a meeting with us if you want to discuss something. It might be hard to reach the presidium via phone. If we don’t answer, send an email instead.
• The bookings of the couch room at the union will be closed and the room will primarily be used by the presidium. However, it will be open for people to use the microwave, but no more than 4 persons should be in the room at the same time.

We are all really sad that we have to take actions like this! Hopefully things will get better soon. Take care of each other until then, and remember that you always can contact the union if you face any problems with anything regarding your time at the university! We will help you as well as we can!