Elections Faculty Council Science 2025

Elections 12-14 May

There are elections for both the staff and student sections.

For staff it concerns the section Information and Computer Sciences.
List Debug the faculty

Wolfgang Hürst, Information and Computing Sciences
Matthijs Vákár, Information and Computing Sciences

For students this concerns the Student General district

Karl Stube, list Algemeen lid
Paolo Dioni, List V��̨R

and the Biology district:

Teun Mulder, List Biologie
Floor Langewerf, list V��̨R

The following people have already been elected:
Staff:

List VLAM, Johan Rozenbrand, Pharmaceutical Sciences
List Bedrijfsvoering vertegenwoordigd / Business Operations represented, Imke van Dam, Faculty Office
List Wiskunde, Stephen Snelders, Mathematics
List Beta for the Better, Marijn van Huis, Physics
List FRBio, Suzan Ruijtenberg, Biology
List Scheikunde, Ward van der Stam, Chemistry

Students:

List U.P.S.V. "Unitas Pharmaceuticorum”, Matthew Noteboom, Pharmaceutical Sciences
List Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij, Elias Bernard, Chemistry
List WOL, Richard van Zandvoort, Mathematics
List Kandidatenlijst ICS 2025-2026, Olaf Boekholt, Information and Computing Sciences
List SONS, Siem Peele, Physics

Important data:

Monday 12 – Wednesday 14 May 2025: voting
Thursday 15 May 2025 – 12.45h: public session in connection with determination of election results for the Faculty Council.
The location is at the top of the stairs in KBG at 12.45h sharp.

Important documents:

Election regulations (in Dutch)

The Electoral Commission.

For more information contact the elections committee: Science.kiescommissie@uu.nl

The faculty of Science consists of six departments:

Department of Biology
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Department of Physics
Department of Chemistry
Department of Mathematics

The participation organ (in the sense of the WHW law) for the faculty of Science lies with the faculty council. As for the level of the departments, there exist other advice committees.

Members of the faculty council are chosen by and amongst the faculty’s staff and students. The faculty council of Science consists of a staff and student member of each of the departements, one staff member on behalf of the faculty bureau (services) and one general student member. With this, the faculty council has 14 members.

For staff members of the faculty council, their department (or faculty bureau) recieves a compensation of 0,2 fte. Students recieve a compensation of one day per week for their work.

Content faculty council

The faculty council has a meeting cycle of six weeks. Generally, these look as follows:

Week 1 – 4: Preliminary work by faculty council committees
Week 3:Discussion between faculty council and board about the next agenda
Week 4:Meetings of committees and departement advisory committees
Week 5:Pre-meeting faculty council
Week 6:Meeting faculty council with faculty board

The pre-meeting of the faculty council is intended for formulating questions to the faculty board and establishing the opinions of the faculty council.

The council has the right of consent and the right of advice on certain topics as describes in the faculty regulations. Shortly summarised:

Right of consent on:

Faculty regulations, including the electoral regulations;
Faculty strategic plan;
The faculty part of the student statute;
Main lines of the faculty budget. This includes the faculty distribution model implemented in 2017;
The education and examination regulations (OER) of the faculty’s study programmes.

Right of advice:

Matters that concern the continuity of the faculty and matters that may threaten the good state of affairs within our faculty;
The care for faculty student facilities.

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