Vision
Student participation
Stimulate personal growth and ambition through a vibrant and supported student community
Goals:
Introduce more ways for associations to gain attention among students who are interested in becoming more active outside of their studies by creating more visibility.
Advocate for greater recognition of students participating in extracurricular activities, such as board years or student teams. This could include financial support, academic rewards, and more flexibility in education
Strengthen collaboration between associations and the university to point out and address practical or facility-related needs.
Engage and integrate more international students in an active student life and associations.
Lobby for a fair new division of board grants among the umbrellas.
Achieved until now:
✅ Contributed to the new association policy in which rules and rights of associations are laid out (together with Groep-één and ONS).
✅ Secured testimonials for board members and removed the 15 ECTS requirement during a board year.
✅ Carried out a survey on student life and investigated why it has become more difficult to fill committees, boards, and student team positions.
✅ Opposed the proposed ‘langstudeerboete’ to safeguard accessible and affordable education.
✅ Actively took part in discussions on board grants to ensure the financial support was not being lowered.
✅ Representing the voice of students from Eindhoven at The Dutch National Student Association (Interstedelijk Studenten Overleg).
Education
Ensure high-quality and future-proof education while TU/e is growing.
Goals:
Aim for a complete catalogue of recorded lectures to facilitate flexible studying.
Advocate for a more personal approach to study progress guidance instead of the BSA.
Integrate global themes such as sustainability and AI into all study programs. And provide clear guidelines on the responsible use of AI in education.
Maintain a healthy staff-to-student ratio to ensure personal attention and high-quality teaching.
Create more meeting areas and study spaces in central locations on campus or use existing facilities more efficiently, to accommodate all students' needs within a growing university.
Keep strengthening collaborations between education and companies in the Brainport region.
Achieved until now:
✅ Ensured sufficient student input in the university's Institutional Plan 2026-2030. This plan outlines the university's goals, priorities, and actions for the next five years (together with Groep-
Municipality and student city
Enhance the position of students by representing their voice towards the municipality and shape the city towards a vibrant, student-centered city.
Goals:
Continue organizing successful dinners between the municipality and the student community twice a year to discuss relevant topics such as student housing, wellbeing, and student life in the city.
To improve communication and ensure student needs are effectively addressed in the city, stress the importance of good communication between the municipality, the university, and students.
Make sure Eindhoven is promoted as a lively community for new students, not only as a place to study.
Achieved until now:
✅ Reduced the gap between municipality and students by continuing to organize successful dinners with municipal councilors and students twice a year.
✅ Connected with student representatives in the municipality to directly address and advocate for student interests.
✅ Organized a municipality-party debate on student-related topics, including housing, well-being, and student life in Eindhoven, for the municipal elections. (Together with Groep-één and ONS)
✅ Actively researched event offerings on campus and engaged in the new location profiles in Eindhoven, spoke about it in a municipality council meeting and opened the conversation on it with the university.
Wellbeing
Improve social safety and student wellbeing
Goals:
Continue investigating, monitoring and improving student wellbeing and social safety on and off campus.
Improve findability of the support network active within the university (like student counselors and psychologists).
Continue organizing GELIJKSPEL workshops for association boards on how to write policy on social safety.
Achieved until now:
✅ Organized a workshop for boards of study and student associations for writing and implementing policies on preventing sexually transgressive behavior in collaboration with the student organization GELIJKSPEL.
✅ Affiliated with the Student Pact, an action-oriented approach for sexually transgressive behavior.
✅ Helped TU/e by providing support in drawing up a code of conduct for desirable behavior and approved the document.
✅ Helped the TU/e to improve the clarity and findability of topics and contact persons related to wellbeing, by supporting the implementation of the Integrity & Social Safety Desk.
✅ Strengthened the structure of the UC wellbeing committee, improving collaboration with policy advisors. This ensures that the opinions of University Council members are voiced more effectively.
Student housing
Improve student housing in Eindhoven through active lobbying and student projects.
Goals:
Appeal against the ‘30-meter rule’, which prohibits having more than one student house within a 30-meter radius.
Actively collaborate with the municipality to address the student housing crisis and ensure that made agreements are acted upon and adjusted when needed.
Actively work towards making hospita housing possible in Eindhoven by discussing and promoting the concept in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Keep informing students about their rights when living in student housing and direct them to the appropriate support channels, e.g., by organizing live sessions on tenant rights and a Studium Generale session.
Achieved until now
✅ Signed the urgency letter concerning 'huurtoeslag op kamers' (rent benefit for rooms) from the LSVb.
✅ Toured through Eindhoven with council for the Environment and Infrastructure (raad leefomgeving en infrastructuur), a council on from the Hague and addressed student housing issues and needs in the city.
✅ Delivered the student representative from Eindhoven in the housing working group of the LSVb.
✅ Launched a project with its own board, called EindjeBouwen, where unused spaces are repurposed for student housing.
✅ Organized a live session with the Huurteam Eindhoven to make students aware of their rights.
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