LUNA is looking for three representatives in this year’s SFS-delegation! Do you want to be a part of leading the work with raising the students’ voice on a national level? In that case, apply to be a representative in this year’s SFS-delegation!

SFS is the collected voice of students and it pursues issues that students have in common at a national and international level. As the collected student voice, SFS’s principal task is to represent the members’ and the students’ interests. This entails having an influence in issues that are important for students. SFS has some fifty affiliated member unions, which together account for approximately 340,000 of the country’s students. SFS’s member unions are highly diverse, which means that SFS represents students with different conditions and from different kinds of courses. This gives SFS a unique opportunity to speak for the student group as a whole, making SFS an important discussion partner for the authorities within higher education. There will be preparational meetings during the year and in the spring, the SFS General Assembly, the organisation’s highest decision-making body, will take place in Eskilstuna to decide on the organisation’s governing documents and select the elected representatives for bodies.

Knowledge of Swedish is required for this position,

The application for being part of the SFS-FUM delegation is open until the 28th of October, and you can apply through the webpage lundsnaturvetarkar.se/apply. If you have any questions about the positions or about how to apply, please contact the nomination committee at valb-ordf@luna.lu.se.

The nomination committee hereby announces its nominations for parliament meeting 8.

Mentor committee chairperson – Marwan Mohamed

Due to problems with reaching quorum, the nomination committee has not conducted any interviews for mentor committee member. However, the following people have candidated for a position as mentor committee member:

Minoo Gandomi

Love Olsson

Nils Björkbäck

Nora Häglund

Lina Åkesson

Adrian Dalmyr

Federica Calafiore

Klaudia Jaworska

If you wish to counter candidate to the mentor committee or any other vacant position in the union, you can send an email to valb-ordf@luna.lu.se or visit the parliament meeting on the 13th of October at 17:15 in Universum in the Astronomy building. You can find information about the vacant positions in the union here.

The 6th Parliament (RK) meeting was an informational one with no decision points. The presidium presented how they had conretisised the operational plan of 22/23 together with the board.

In the second board meeting of this operational year, the student chaplain Pelle joined and introduced himself and his roll as LUNAs union friend. There was a discussion regarding questions that all the unions in Lund will be able to ask the vice chancellor during a lunch in october, and what questions the union think are important. A priority list of this years working groups was also made.

During the third meeting, the fulltimers prented what they have been doing since the last meeting and board decided to approve an application of funding for the Science Choir. The board decided to elect Gloria as an alternate in LUS Elective Ting, and had a discussion about sponsors for the union and student councils.

Office hours will be closed today due to the fulltimers being away at meetings!

LUNA announces one position as mentor committee chairperson and nine positions as members of the mentor committee!

• Do you want to be part of arranging the novisch period 2023?
• Do you want to be part of assembling an amazing team of mentors?
• Do you want to bike around Lund in a fancy tailcoat?

In that case, a position within the mentor committee is perfect for you!
The application for being part of the mentor committee is open until the 30th of September, and you can apply through the webpage lundsnaturvetarkar.se/apply. If you have any questions about the positions or about how to apply, please contact the nomination committee at valb-ordf@luna.lu.se.

The union board met for its first meeting of the operational year on the 16th of August. The majority of the meeting was spent on planning the upcoming year, by concretizising the operational plan and creating work groups. 17 work groups were created within the board, where matters such as updating the regulatory documents, planning a directive for Utopia, recovery and student’s mental health and accessibility were brought up. This was a long meeting, so the board had some pizza to help them get through it.

And congratulations on being accepted to Lund University!

We are LUNA (Lunds Naturvetarkår), the science students union here at Lund University. The Science student union represents about 2500 students at the Faculty of science at Lund University. The union’s main mission is educational affairs at the Faculty of science and its departments and also to conduct job fairs and social events for its members!

If you are starting a course or program at the Faculty of science in Lund, you are eligible to join LUNA!

In late August, a range of fun activities, aka our “novisch period” will be arranged for all new science students coming to Lund, this is a great time for you to meet your new classmates and get started with your student life here in our great city!

More information about the novisch period can be found here:

The office will not be open as usual during the summer, we will be back middle of August. Of course, if you need anything, you can always email luna@luna.lu.se. Have a nice break and we will see you after the summer!