In the coming years, the Student Union Malmö is facing significant changes and challenges. One of these changes is in our organizational structure where we have, with the help of the previous board and the council, decided that we have to reorganize and reform our board and work team.

This will hopefully help us get more students engaged in our organization and have more student influence in the university.

Due to our previous experience and lack of student engagement we saw it necessary to find a solution that is more open to every student. This will hopefully help us get more students engaged in our organization and have more student influence in the university. 

The challenge with this new structure of the Student Union is that we will have to assess it after a certain period of time and see how successful it is and implement further changes if needed. 

The biggest change in board structure will be that it will consist of two presidiums that will be full time remunerated, and these are the students who need to take a break from their studies. Other four people will be students representing the respective faculty, who will go to certain meetings and will be remunerated for that but won’t have to take a study break. This will hopefully catch the interest of more students who are not interested in taking a study break but still want to be engaged and influence their education. 

Another change is that our ombuds will be full time employed instead of students on a study break.

You can read about other challenges facing the Student Union Malmö in the upcoming issue of SUM later in February.

Bojana Drljaca
President of the Student Union Malmö