The council meeting had a joint event together with the university library, where the library shown everyone attending the meeting the Ångström visualization lab and makerspace.
One of the labor unions in Sweden, The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers, posted a webinar on YouTube with information about employment conditions and benefits as doctoral candidates (PhD student).
The webinar is mostly in English and when they speak Swedish, there are English subtitles. The webinar is very general, but contains a lot of useful information for PhD students.
If you know any other labor union or student union which have similar video clips on YouTube or equivalent, please let TNDR chair Anna E. Frost anna.frost@angstrom.uu.se know and we'll send out information about them in coming e-mails from me! A warning that the webinar contains advertisement for joining The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers.
The faculty of science and engineering is looking over its general rules and procedures during the coming months.
If you want to give your opinion about how they should be rewritten or unchanged, please send an e-mail to Anna E. Frost anna.frost@angstrom.uu.se no later than November 25th. You can read the current rules and procedures here in English or here in Swedish.
