During the general council meeting in Eskilstuna on May 5-7, SFS received four new member unions! A warm welcome to the national student movement: the Military and Defence University Cadet Union, the Technology Union at Luleå University of Technology, Marie Cederschiöld's Student Union and the Student Union at Johannelund College of Theology.
Linn Svärd is the chairwoman of the Swedish National Union of Students:
– During the spring and autumn, my colleague Jacob Färnert and I have traveled around Sweden and met with around 50 unions, both existing and potential members. Student unions of all sizes and types are needed in the national student movement, it is nice to see that more unions want to join SFS.
Isak is a board member of the Cadet Corps:
– We are a new student union, formed in 2019. We hope to become a little more established. We want to establish collaborations within SFS, and see how other unions are doing. Our union is a little special, as we consist of both civilian students and cadets. It is valuable to see how others are doing at their universities in order to improve our own conditions.
Alexander Hurkmans is a union council member at the Technology Union at Luleå University of Technology:
– We have looked at the problems that exist on our campus, and realized that we need to look at the national level to solve some of them. Being part of SFS is a way to make student life better for us here in Luleå. One example is the campus environments, which are owned by Akademiska Hus. We students need to come together to have an active dialogue with them.
Junior Naukkarinen is the chairman of Marie Cederschiöld's student union:
– I have a very good impression of SFS, it is larger and more organized than I expected. Now we want to familiarize ourselves with the issues on a national level, so far we have mostly focused on getting student influence on the union started.
The student union at Johannelund College of Theology was not able to attend the general council.