Blog from the Consistory Boarding School 6-7/11 by student representative Ernst Bergman

Today, Uppsala Student Union releases the report "The role of the head of department and the handling of discrimination cases at Uppsala University". The purpose of the report is to examine the role of the head of department with a focus on how heads of department at Uppsala University experience the handling of discrimination cases involving students and doctoral students.

Uppsala Student Union comments on the government budget.

In the housing report, 36 study locations are marked red, yellow or green, depending on how quickly a student can expect to find secure housing with reasonable conditions during the fall semester. Uppsala Student Union produces data for the Uppsala section and SFS proposes three measures to ease the situation on the housing market.

Three demands for action to improve the situation for us students.

Our requirements for Uppsala to become the country's best cycling city for us students.

This year Uppsala Student Union celebrates its 175th anniversary with a series of activities from March 11-16.

Uppsala University awards pedagogical prizes for outstanding achievements in education at undergraduate and graduate level. Five prizes, each worth SEK 20,000, are awarded annually in the fall.

Uppsala Student Union summarizes its work during Mental Health Week 2023. In the post, you will find the statements we published as well as our views on the need for better recovery and rest to provide conditions for healthier and more prosperous students.

Last week, the government presented its joint budget for 2024 together with the Sweden Democrats. In the following blog post, we briefly describe the budget bill and how it affects us as students.

The Swedish Students' Union recently released its annual housing report describing the housing situation for Sweden's students. Uppsala Student Union participated in producing the report and summarizes its content with a focus on Uppsala in this blog post.

On March 8, 2023, Uppsala Student Union submitted a letter to Uppsala University recommending a pilot project with free menstrual protection. This blog post summarizes the letter, the short debate that followed in Upsala Nya Tidning and our plans for the future.

A year has passed since Russia's last invasion of Ukraine. Uppsala Student Union therefore writes a statement in support of the Ukrainian people, a total withdrawal of Russian troops and more solidarity efforts to make both a reality. We also urge all Uppsala students to attend the anniversary demonstration, which will take place outside the University House at 4pm, on 24 February.

Uppsala Student Union has through a series of debate posts fought to keep bike racks at Norrlands nation and outside Campus Gamla torget. We have been able to show that there is a majority in the municipality that agrees that bike racks should be prioritized over car traffic in central Uppsala. The following blog post summarises the reporting and debate on bicycle stands along the Fyrisån in central Uppsala

Uppsala University awards pedagogical prizes for outstanding achievements in education at undergraduate and graduate level. Five prizes, each worth SEK 20,000, are awarded annually in November. One of the prizes is awarded for educational achievements in a special priority area and is called the free prize. In 2023, the priority area is "Creative pedagogy".

The winner of the Gustaf Fröding Scholarship 2020 is the writer and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri. The Gustaf Fröding Scholarship is a literature scholarship awarded every three years by Uppsala Student Union. The recipient is chosen by a vote among members of the Uppsala Student Union after a jury has selected three candidates. The award ceremony will take place in conjunction with the announcement and awarding of the Gustaf Fröding Scholarship for the year 2023.

Today, our chairman Anton Sánchez Sulejmani writes in Altinget about the planned investigation on cancelkultur by Minister of Education Mats Persson. If you want to create a university with high ceilings, you need a more nuanced perspective than concepts like "cancelkultur" allow. In the opinion piece, we also draw attention to the lack of active anti-discrimination measures at Swedish higher education institutions as an important but absent component of the debate on academic freedom.

Few students are likely to have missed the inflation and food price rises that will take place in 2022. This autumn, the issue of how inflation affects students has emerged as one of the major policy issues and Uppsala Student Union has been at the centre of the debate. This blog post summarises the reporting and debate focusing on Uppsala and its students, from our first blog post in early September to the in-depth media coverage that has taken off in October.

Uppsala Student Union and the Doctoral Board at Uppsala University condemn the attack on the students at Sharif University of Technology as well as all state violence against demonstrators in Iran.

Uppsala Student Union invites you to a training session on Uppsala University's finances. The training will primarily focus on the following: where does the money come from? How is the money distributed within the University? What do the concepts used when discussing the budget mean? How does the division between research and education work? And how does it all fit together?

During the week you can listen to lectures and webinars, participate in workshops and activities. All aimed at informing and highlighting mental health and well-being.