About us
The Welfare Council works for your everyday life as a student, and consists of representatives from the educational institutions in Gjøvik, Ålesund and Trondheim.
Our task is to safeguard and improve welfare services for students. We decide how the semester fee should be used, and express our views on the priorities of Studentsamskipnaden in Gjøvik, Ålesund, and Trondheim (Sit).
We work at both locally and nationally on issues that protect your rights and finances during your studies.
The representatives of the Welfare Council are elected every spring, and serve for one year starting from July 1st. The representatives meet once a month to discuss, approve, or reject the issues brought forward to the Welfare Council. They also have the opportunity to participate in seminars, courses, and workshops organized by the Welfare Council's work committee and its partners.
Anyone who pays the semester fee can run for election, speak at the Welfare Council meetings, and propose suggestions.
How we are organized
To understand how the Welfare Council is structured and organized, we have created a model. Find out where the representatives in the Welfare Council come from here.
The owner organizations of the Welfare Council select representatives for the Welfare Council. The owner organizations consist of Studenttinget NTNU, Studentparlamentet DMMH, BI, Fotofagskolen, and Fagskolen innlandet. The first three organizations select representatives for the Welfare Council, while Fotofagskolen, and Fagskolen innlandet choose a joint representative for the Welfare Council. The welfare subcommittees in Gjøvik and Ålesund select their own leaders, who represent the study cities in the work committee. The work committee consists of a leader, deputy, volunteering organizations manager and media and coordination manager, with a workplace in Trondheim, and local leaders from Gjøvik and Ålesund. In total, there are 6 members.
