News
This year's Student Parliament elections are held April 15 - 23. Use your vote!
Would you like to be a delegate to the UNICA Student Conference in Oslo in October?
From april 19 - 26 we will organize the Student Parliament Elections. With this, we encourage you to vote and make a difference!
The Student Parliament and a variety of organizations at the University of Oslo have joined together in the organization of International Week 2012. All events will be held in English and we are hoping to create interesting meeting place for international and Norwegian students to celebrate the year internationalization is in focus at the University of Oslo.
Write down the dates January 30th to February 4th!
Join the Facebook event.
The Social Democrats, the Blue List and the HF-list went up a mandate in the Student Elections 2011. The Social Democrats got the most votes of all lists, closely followed by the Left-wing Alliance.
Welcome
The Student Parliament is the highest level of student representatives at the University of Oslo.
We aim to improve the academic and social life for the students at the University.
The Students' House, Villa Eika, is open every day between 8 a.m. and 16 p.m.
If you have any questions or just want to read the latest news, you are more than welcome!
International Students Union
The University of Oslo has its own branch of the International Students Union in Norway.
We encourage all students to participate in the work of ISU-UiO, read more about them on their brilliant webpage and join their facebook group!
Officer of international affairs
Emilie Langbråten Wilberg is the current officer of international affairs of the executive commitee in the Student Parliament at the University of Oslo.
Contact Emilie if you have any questions related to internationalization at the university. The executive committee resides in the second floor of Villa Eika.
Phone: 22 58 70 54
Mail: e.e.l.wilberg@studentparlamentet.uio.no
Student organisations
In addition the Student Parliament and International Students Union there are at least four other student organisations that any students should know about:
The Welfare Council (VT) is a student council which communicates the students' wishes and demands towards SiO and Oslo municipality.
The Students and Academics Assistance Fund (SAIH) is a solidarity organisation of students and academics in Norway. 30 kr of your semester fee is (voluntarily) donated to SAIH.
Erasmus Student Network (ESN) is an international student organization which mission is to represent international students and provide opportunities for cultural understanding and self-development under the principle of Students Helping Students.
National Union of Students - Norway (NSO) is the largest organisation for students in Norway, with the Student Parliament at UiO as its largest member union. The main goal of NSO is to ensure students' academic, social and economic rights.
The student democracy, a quick overview
Students are by law ensured the right to be part of all decisions that affects them at the University of Oslo. This means that students have at least 20% representation in all boards and councils at UiO. These representatives are elected from the student bodies at the various levels, through general assemblies or electronic voting.
The Student Parliament (SP) is the highest level student body at UiO. SP consists of 28 list-elected representatives, and 8 faculty based elective seats. The assembly elects 5 representatives (Executive Committee) to work full-time on issues of student rights, educational quality and student life in general.
Every year the Student Parliament adapts a new plan of action and a political platform. These are political documents with visions and demands in all matters related to students. We've translated the last plan of action, and you can read the rest of our political documents using google translate on the norwegian pages.
All political documents (Norwegian) Google-translated (English)
The faculty student councils (studentutvalg) work at the specific faculties with issues at the faculty level. You can read more about them on their respective home pages:
- Faculty of Humanities (HFSU)
- Faculty of Social Sciences (SVSU)
- Faculty of Law (JSU)
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (MNSU)
- Faculty of Education (SUUV)
- Faculty of Madicine (MSU)
- Faculty of Dentistry (OSU)
- Faculty of Theology (TSU)
The student councils at the program/institute level (fagutvalg/programutvalg) is the grassroot level of the student democracy. They work to ensure and improve the quality at the course and program level. Decisions that are made at this level are decisions concerning curriculum, course and program evaluation, course build-up, work- and learning enviroment and more. These councils also often do social gatherings etc, watch out for posters about general assemblies or happenings of your local "fagutvalg" or "programutvalg"!.
Want to know more about the student democracy at UiO? Don't hesitate to contact our officer of international affairs, more info near the top of this page!