The board held its 18th meeting on the 25th of May. The board discussed the issue with student representation in the investigation to reorganize CEC, INES and the Geology Department. Then, the board discussed the membership fee to the union, and decided to suggest to the parliament to raise the fee to 75 kr per semester. The board also decided to approve of a presidium decision to purchase a storage solution for our patches.

After a break, the board discussed a first draft of a Directive for Utopia. The board gave some input to the working group, and the draft was sent to the parliament for further discussion. Another regulatory document up for discussion was the Policy for Economy and Agreements, where an update was suggested to adress long term financial sustainability. After some minor changes, the policy update was sent as a decision matter to RK.

Finally, the board reviewed and approved of all the documents for the upcoming RK meeting. The next board meeting will be held on the 10th of June.

The LUNA office hours will be closed Friday the 27th.

As always, you can reach us via email: luna@luna.lu.se

Or via https://www.lundsnaturvetarkar.se/complaints/ for student complaints.

The board had its 17th meeting on the 11th of May. In this meeting, the board discussed the operational plan and the budget for the upcoming operational year. Both drafts are considered finished and will be sent to RK for approval on the 31st of May.

Secondly, the board started planning the handover for the future board. The board also talked about how to round of its own year with some social send-off activity. The next board meeting will be on the 25th of May.

The board convened for its 16th meeting on the 28th of April. First, the board discussed an issue with student representation at the faculty together with the auditors, and how to proceed with the situation. Next, the board discussed last weekend’s Utopia ball, and concluded it went well.

The first decision of the night was to elect a student speaker for the graduation ceremony. Finally, the board evaluated the progress with the current operational plan: what has been completed, what is in progress and what might not be possible to complete this year.

The next board meeting will be held on the 11th of May at 16:30.

In the second elective parliament meeting on the 20th of April, a bunch of positions were filled. The positions that were not filled will be available for by-elections in the next parliament meeting on the 31st of May. The following elections where made by Parliament:

On the 19th of April, the first of two elective parliament meetings was held. This meeting dealt with the elections of the Presidium, the Head of Corporate Relations (HCR) and the Board. The following elections were made by parliament:

Presidium – Gloria Kowal Johnson (president) and Honia Rasul (vice president)

Board members – Alva Tangfelt, Caisa Kjellström, Samuel Hjelm, Stina Magndal and Vendela Gustafsson

Unfortunately, there were no candidates for the HCR and the position was left vacant.

The second elective parliament will be held on the 20th of April at 17:15 where the remaining positions will be up for election.

In yesterday’s board meeting, the board started by approving two applications to the union funds. First, it was decided to buy three more traditional student hats using the Office Inventory Fund that can be used by marshals during Utopia, the graduation ceremonies and more. Secondly, the board approved SNG:s application to the Special Initative Fund to buy some frisbees for disc golf. SNG plans to use them for an event, but they will then belong to the union and be available to borrow for other student councils and committees.

Next, the board decided to approve of the answer to the Science Village Consultation Document that a working group within the board has written, with input from RK. The answer will be sent in to the Science Village Office today.

The board also made the important decisions on who shall recieve the Pedagogical and Honorary Prizes. The winners will be publicly announced at the Faculty Graduation Ceremony on the 5th of June.

Finally, the board discussed what to bring up to the Swedish Minister for Education, who is visiting Lund and meeting with the student unions. It was decided that internationalisation of student influence is an important matter to bring up at the national level. The board also discussed and approved of the documents for the upcoming elective parliament meetings.

The next board meeting will be held on the 28th of April at 17:15.

The Nomination Committee has now published their nominations for the upcoming elections. Now the period to send in counter candidatures is open, which is done by sending an email with information about what position you are candidating for and a motivation, to valb-ordf@luna.lu.se. Send in counter candidatures on the 11th of April at the latest.

More information about the nominations and the elections can be found on the Elections 2022 page here on the website. Here are the nominees:

Presidium: Gloria Kowal Johnson

Operational Auditor: Ida Lunga

Education Committee Chairperson: Margot Knapen

Environmental Committee Chairperson: Jaques Atkinson

Party Committee Chairperson: Federica Calafiore

Sports Committee Chairperson: David Linfeldt

Environmental Committee Member: Sofia Bjarheim

Party Committee Member: Benjamin van Dijk

Sports Committee Member: Saleh Moradi

Yesterday, the board convened for its 14th meeting. The first matter regarded the work with the future masters programs in computational science and applied computational science. The board reviewed a report from the student representative in the internal working group at the Faculty, and discussed how we think the work is going. Then, the board decided to extend the role of the external student reviewer, Rebecca Svensson, to also include reviewing the program in applied computational science, which has been added after she was elected to the position.

The next matter was a discussion about the union’s insurance and pension agreements. The vice president had written a report about the contents of these agreements, and the board discussed whether these agreements were in line with the union’s needs. It was concluded that some aspects should be looked into further to see if the agreements could be better adapted to our organisation.

After a break, the board discussed the proposed changes to the Faculty rules of procedure, that determine how the dean, pro dean and vice deans are elected every three years. The board discussed the pros and cons of the suggested changes, and concluded that the changes could mean a stronger student influence in the process if done right. This means that the union will take a positive stance towards these changes.

The final matter was an evaluation of the LUNA fair that was arranged in the past few weeks. The board thought that the concept was good, but also discussed how it could be improved for the future to get a better outreach.

As a miscellaneous matter, the lack of candidates to the full-time positions for next year was mentioned (please apply <3). The next board meeting will be held on the 11th of April at 17:15.

The 3rd Parliament (RK) meeting took place on the 23rd of March. The matters on the agenda were few but important. First, the members of RK were presented a draft of the budget for the next operational year, 2022/23. RK asked some questions and had some feedback, but were generally satisfied with the draft.

Next, RK discussed the operational plan for 2022/23. This was a long discussion with plenty of input, regarding among other things digital education and accessability. While RK was mostly positive to the board’s draft, a new focus matter was added to work with student-teacher relations, in particular teacher availability and office hours.

Lastly, the parliament discussed the union’s answer to the Science Village Consultation Document. For example, the representatives discussed the situation for the students who get left behind on Sölvegatan, and the integration between research and education there. The board will continue to work with the document, and approve of the final version before the deadline.

The next parliament meetings will be the elective meetings on the 19th and 20th of April.