Next week, May 7- 11, is the week of elections for the Faculty and Central Student Councils.

You as a student are welcomed to vote for the party and candidates who’s views you most commonly share. Each student receives two votes – one for the representative of the Faculty Student Council, one for the representative of the Central Student Council.

We’ve interviewed the Dean of our Faculty and our FSR Chairman about the importance of your participation and vote. Take a look at the interview here [VIDEO].

FEB parties will be presenting their views to you next week in the E-hall on Roetersstraat 11. You can vote on the spot or may also visit: http://www.student.uva.nl/verkiezingen

If you still can’t decide which party suits you best, you are welcomed to attend a debate between Chairmen of the two student parties uva sociaal and  partij mei. Debate takes place in CREA Muziekzaal on May 9th, 20.00-22.00.

You’ve heard about the FEB Student of the Year Award? We’ve set it up for you – the student – so that you can continue doing the great work in and beyond the Faculty and get recognition for it.

How will it work?

Upload your application to www.beststudent.nl, a board will make a selection of five candidates and then your fellow students are encouraged to vote for you.

You can win:

• A summer vacation anywhere in the world! (to the amount of EUR 1,500.-)
• You receive official recognition by the Faculty as being the top student of the UvA FEB.
• Enhance your career through a career related workshop organized especially for you.

Don’t wait too long, applications close on May 6, 2012!

This week (2-7 April) there is the week of the “Active student”. The week of activities acclaims students who commit themselves to things for the university other than their studies, for instance participation in a study association, Student Council, or student politics.

We wish to make the society aware of the active such students do. The perception of most people is still that students, especially those students who are not following courses but obtain full-time board functions, are doing little more than drinking beer and hopping from one social event to another. (although one cannot deny a degree of justice in such a percepton, reality is still a little different)… Active students work on making the university and Amsterdam better! They are the ones who pay attention to the well-being of the students and the university and their contribution is often invaluable to positive change.

If you are one of them, join in for Active Student week!

Look for all the workshops the councils and study associations organize at:

www.actievestudent.nl

Show your commitment to the active student!

Are you going to the protests this week? Capture your experiences!

Take pictures of the protests and share with us how you are seeing them through your camera lens. The best photos will be published on the websites of FEB and Studentenraad.nl

Post your #ZwarteDag pictures on our Facebook page before Sunday, March 25 and we will announce the winner next day.

Capture The Black Day!

FSR FEB

As you may know the government of The Netherlands is continuing its “reform” of the higher education. The ultimate aim of the efforts is to squeeze the country’s educational budget to the bare minimum.

Who benefits from this? The students do not!

Governments under financial pressure commonly begin slashing budgets for education, health-care, pension and so on. However, The Netherlands, known for its liberties and knowledge intensive economy should not continue along the path of destroying the foundations of access to the very knowledge it so cherishes (does it?).

One of the ironic things from all this, is that the politicians that are most resonant about giving students less time to stay at the Universities, have themselves taken their time with Alma Mater. Now, when their turn to pay our bill came, politicos bailed.

We urge you to come and join us on various peaceful protest activities that will take place next week, March 19-23. Let them rethink new approved changes to higher education so that The Netherlands can still pride itself with our knowledge.

More info on protests here.

The activities to take place:

Monday, March 19:
Swedisch course, 16.00 at PC Hoofthuis

Tuesday, March 20th:
Masterclass: stressing the importance of the Master, location and time to be announced (likely 13.00 @ Spui)

Wednesday, March 21st:
Cycling to The Hage: against shortening of the OV travel subsidy.

Thursday march 22nd:
VU organizes an “Actionday”

Friday march 23rd:
“Black day”: show your regret for bygone dreams, 16h at Dam Square.

See you there!

FSR FEB

As a student of the FEB you can study a period abroad at one of UvA’s partner universities in Europe via the Erasmus programme. If you would like to do so in 2012-2013, it is important to start your orientation, because the preparations might take some time and the application deadline for studying abroad during the academic year 2012-2013 is approaching: March 1, 2012.

If you want to study abroad, it is best to choose a minor track and go on an exchange in the semester that is reserved for that purpose in the third year. You then can still graduate within 3 years for your Bachelor. You can study abroad as a Master student as well. This however, will take you an extra semester to graduate, plus you will have to ask permission from the Board of Examiners by sending them your study program with your planned study abroad. For the master a maximum of 15 EC of extra credits is allowed.

To be eligible for an exchange in Europe you will have to have obtained at least 90 EC at the moment of your planned departure.

For more information and application (the application form will be online in the end of January 2012) please refer to the website of the FEB-International Office

If you have any questions after your orientation, you may call or visit the office hours of the International Office (see website) or mail studyabroad-feb @ uva . nl

Good luck!

Wishing to link the knowledge you get from the University with global Entrepreneurial practice?

Now you can do just that with University’s SocioNext Initiative.

Your team will be challenged to design and implement a project that generates a scholarship for one of your peers in South Africa. Do not miss this pioneering multidisciplinary challenge that will provide you with social marketing, presentation, networking and cross-cultural communication skills. You will also have access to coaching by experienced professionals.

This 12EC course starts on February 6 and runs until June.

For more information:

Socionext website
Course Catalog
Facebook

Registration via tjaart @ socionext . org is still possible until the start of the course on February 6.

Dear Student,

For a new project, we are looking for a student experienced in web developement based on a popular WCMS (e.g. WordPress, Drupal). The website will be mostly content driven and its expected development time to take no longer than a week.

If you are up for a small challenge, a lot of appreciation, and a great way to expand your portforilo, please send us an email to feb @ studentenraad . nl.

Hear you soon!
Faculty Student Council Economics and Business

Ambitious? Up for a challenge? Dissatisfied with the organization within the FEB or UvA? Willing to take an active position in changing education within the UvA or FEB? A role within the Student council could be something for you!

On Thursday, January 19, from 12.30 to 13.30 the Faculty Student Council (FSR) organizes an information lunch.

This lunch will be offered to you in room H0.03 (the symposium room in Agora).

Are you interested in a (part-time) board year within the FSR or CSR, please be welcome to come and find out more! During this lunch, the current FSR FEB and student parties will be present to answer any questions you might have.

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Christmas came a bit earlier to some students! Today Christien and Rik dropped by our office to pick up iPods they’ve won by completing our survey. Thank you again for providing us with valuable information!

Merry Christmas to you, dear student!
Faculty Student Council Economics and Business