LundaEkonomerna is a Student Union for students enrolled at Lund University School of Economics and Management. We are an organization driven by students, and our 300 active members work together to improve the education at LUSEM, the future careers of our members, and last but not least, the social life of students.
To become a member of LundaEkonomerna, you must be a student at the Lund University School of Economics and Management, which means that you are either enrolled in a program or a course at LUSEM. If you are not studying at this faculty, then unfortunately, you cannot become a member with us.
To become a member, you must first join Studentlund, which you can do via their website. There, you upload your admission notice from antagning.se or a verifiable registration certificate from Ladok. You can only become a member of Studentlund and LundaEkonomerna if you have received a valid admission notice.
When you create your membership in Studentlund and thereby provide your admission notice, you are automatically assigned to the student union that “belongs to” the faculty you will be studying at.
A student union has to perform educational surveillance by law in order to be a union. Which means making sure the schools offers the best possible education for the students, as well as handling other school-related matters.
Another thing which is specific for a student union is that it can only organize activities for its members. While nations can arrange events for all members of Studentlund. It’s because of this reason it’s mandatory to be a member of LundaEkonomerna to be able to attend our events.
Unions are also the only ones allowed to orginize career-activities in Studentlund.
Studentlund is the cooperation between all the unions and nations, and Akademiska Föreningen (AF). The purpose of this collaboration is to ensure you can take part in the amazing student life here in Lund. It also enables all parties to create the best student environment for all students at Lund’s University.
The membership fee you pay each semester allocates to one nation, one union and AF. Read more about Studentlund by clicking on the button on the right.
You can find all answers on our Membership page.
In LundaEkonomerna we have 30 committees. Depending on their recruitment cycles, they recruit members one or two times per year. Under the Get Involved tab on the website (see the bottom to the right) you can see which committees are currently recruiting. When you have found one committee of interest, you get to send in your application. Everyone who applies get invited to an interview.
As a collegial, you are the project leader of a committee or project. Besides being a leader, you also work actively with long-term operational goals within the union and become apart of the Collegium – a collaboration between all collegial members and the board. A collegial position is chosen either by our General Council or Board Members.
As an active member, you are a part of a project of your choosing. You’ll be working with your team towards the goals of the committee, and it’s lead by your project leader. Moreover, you get to take part of all the active member activities, where you get to meet all the other active members working ideally to make our union even better.
As a staffer, you sign up to assist a committee in one of their events. It may be as a Hero for 6mästeriet, helping them making the event possible, or as a Fair staffer at eee, assisting in turning EC into a career fair. You also get a thank you, often in the form of a dinner party, which is a great opportunity to enjoy yourself and meet new people!
We rely on good communication with the faculty and the departments. Therefore, we’re very good at communicating our students’ opinions. Correspondingly the faculty is very interested in what we have to say and we treasure our collaboration highly. We are represented in all preparatory and decision-making bodies of the faculty, and also on university level through our umbrella organization LUS.
Through conducting and following up on the Education Committee’s Speak Up Days we know the student opinions regarding their studies and study environment. Through observing and analyzing patterns in the issues reported we can see the things that need to be improved on. By keeping a close eye on the society and the university and how the development of the two will affect the students at the university we are able to control and make sure that the development won’t affect the students negatively.
All the above contribute to the collective student opinion which is what we represent. We also follow the Student Rights List and our Opinions Program to always have anchored opinions and a common front. You’ll find the documents here.