A student union is an association of students who study a certain subject or field of study.
At Lund University there are 9 student unions, of which 7 are affiliated parties in Studentlund. The StudentlundThe affiliated unions are LundaEkonomerna, the The Law Student's Union, Lunds Naturvetarunion, Lunds Samhälvetarunion, Corpus Medicum, Humanities and Theology Student Union & Student Union at the Faculty of Arts in Malmö. The unions that are outside StudentlundThe collaboration is between the Lund Doctoral Student Union and the Technology Union at Lund University of Technology.
It is often easy to tell which union you belong to by the name of the union: natural scientists are members of the Natural Sciences Union, social scientists are members of the Social Sciences Union, humanists are members of the Humanities and Theology Student Union.
The Unions' most important task is to monitor education. The Unions elect student representatives to boards and working groups at all levels of the university; from the program council to the university board. The student representatives and course representatives ensure that the education and study environment are of high quality and make suggestions for improvements and changes. They also work to improve students' conditions towards the municipality, the region and the state, including the housing situation and public transport discounts.
In addition to educational monitoring, the unions arrange social activities for students within the same subject area and they also work to simplify the transition between student life and working life through various activities such as job market days.
