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.

In the first Parliament meeting of the semester, on Thursday the 7th of October at 17:15, there will be elections to fill any vacant positions in the union. The meeting will take place in Rodinia, Geocentrum II at Sölvegatan 12. Because there is no functioning nomination committee, there will be no ordinary nomination process with nominations and such. Instead, we will open up for free nominations at the meeting. To candidate to a position, all you need to do is show up at the meeting and present yourself to the Parliament.

The following positions are available (the numbers in parenthesis indicates number of available ordinary positions + number of alternate positions):

Union Central Positions

Union Board (3+0)
Nomination Committee Chairperson (1+0)
Nomination Commitee Member (4+0)
Auditor (0+3)
Webmaster (1+0)
Ballmaster (2+0)
Parliament Chairperson (0+1)
Parliament Secretary (0+1)

Union Committees

Corporate Relations Committee (CRC) Member (7+0)
Environmental Committee (MU) Chairperson (1+0)
Environmental Committee (MU) Member (4+0)
Party Committee Chairperson (1+0)
Party Committee Member (3+0)
Sports Committee Member (1+0)

Faculty Student Representatives

Faculty Education Board (1+1)
Faculty Readership Appointments Board (1+1)

External Positions

Academic Society (AF) Scholarship Board (1+1)
LUS Elective Ting (1+1)
LUS Nomination Committee (1+1)

If you’re interested in vacant Student Council positions, contact your Student Council’s chairperson.

The elections to the Mentor Committee (FU) will take place during the next Parliament meeting on the 28th of October.

With the covid restrictions being eased, there is nothing stopping the LUNA office from having office hours again! The office will be open the same hours as before the pandemic, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 11-14.

Our office is located in Geocentrum II, come in through the main entrance at Helgonavägen 5, walk past the stairs and to the left of the Pangea lecture hall and you will find us! Come and have a cup of coffee and talk to us about education, study environment or student life!

If you have an urgent/important issue and want to talk to us outside of the office hours, you are of course welcome to do so! Just send us an email or give us a call before to ensure that we are available.

On the 20th of September, the board convened for the second time. The board reviewed and approved its concretization of the operational plan from the previous meeting. There was also a discussion about the union’s election process in regards to the nomination committee having only one member. The board decided that there could be no ordinary nomination process. Candidates will have to come to the Parliament meeting to present themselves and be questioned by the Parliament, in other words free nominations will be used. Candidates are still encouraged to send in their candidacy to the union presidium or the nomination committee to give, but no nominations will be made. The board also decided to elect Love Olsson and Ida Bonnevier Wallstedt as alternate representatives to the LUS elective ting, since the elective ting will be held before the next RK meeting.

On the 1st of September, the union board had its first meeting. In this meeting, the fulltimers gave a report on their work during the summer. Then, the board approved the year’s first application to the special initiative fund, from the Science Choir, and updated the contact information in the crisis management guideline. A significant part of the meeting was spent on planning for the year ahead, first by setting the board’s meeting dates, and then by concretizising the operational plan. Ten different working groups were created within the board, to work with everything from investigating the study environment at the faculty to organising events and updating our regulatory documents. The board members had some pizza to help them get through this very long meeting.

Hi!
Are you going to start your studies at the Faculty of Science this spring? Have you remembered to respond to the admission? Then this is the right place for you, 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. As a student at the Faculty of Science and a member of the union you can become active in everything from education monitoring, gender and equality issues and environmental work to career events, parties, sports and game nights.

All new students at the Faculty of Science, both students who start a program or take single courses, are welcome to take part in this year’s novisch period. It will start with an introduction meeting on the 25th of August at 12:00. The novisch period will be adapted to the COVID restrictions, and take place mostly outdoors with fun events almost everyday until September 11th. A few events that are indoors might require a sign-up due to a limited number of tickets.

Studentlund Membership
To be a member of the union and take part in most of the student life in Lund as well as some of the housing options, inkluding AF Bostäder, 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 for your Studentlund membership at the Studentlund web page. If you have any troubles, contact us in the union and we will help you out.

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. Also, stay tuned for more information about the novisch period and other events here on the website and on our Facebook page.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

The Presidium of the Science Student Union

Tonight, the parliament gathered for its last meeting before summer. During the meeting, the parliament approved upon an operational plan and a budget for the upcoming operational year. Furthermore, the parliament decided to replenish 15 000 SEK and 12 000 SEK respectively to the Special Initiative Fund and the Office Inventory Fund. The parliament did also approve upon seven days vacation for next year’s vice president in July, as well as upon a board decision regarding an election of Hanna Sjö to a working group which will work with visions for basic education at Brunnshög and Sölvegatan. Lastly, the parliament was informed about that the board has finished a handbook for student representatives.

Today, the board convened for its 20th and last board meeting of this operational year. During the meeting, the board approved upon the documents for parliament meeting 6, as well as upon vacation days for the full timers. The board did also decide to buy phones for the full timers, as well as a new camera for the union. Furthermore, the board discussed how to update the board member testament, and how to evaluate our year as the board.

Last but not least, the board decided to change LUNAs covid-19 restrictions. The new restrictions says that it is possible to host meetings and events, as long as they follow the restrictions put up by the government, the public health agency, the region of Scania and Lund university. Currently, this means that we can have smaller outdoor events, but that we can not host indoor events and meetings yet. However, the number of people allowed at both indoor and outdoor events will most likely increase the first of July, meaning that we hopefully can have physical meetings and events during the autumn.

The union office and couch rooms will stay closed over the summer, since Geocentrum II is still a locked building. If you want to get in contact with the presidium, or need to meet up with LUNA for some reason, please send an email to luna@luna.lu.se.

The union board want to thank you all for this year! Hope you get a nice summer, and that we can meet each other again in the autumn!

On Thursday, it is time for the last parliament meeting before summer. All documents for the meeting can be found here. LUNA has not received any candidatures for the by-elections which takes place during the meeting. If you want to counter candidate to a vacant position, please send an email with your counter candidature to valb-ordf@luna.lu.se before 23:59 on Wednesday the 9th of June.