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 (Velferdstinget) is structured and organized, we have created a model. Here you can find out where the representatives in the Welfare Council come from.
The Welfare Council’s governing bodies are responsible for electing representatives to the Council. These governing bodies consist of the Student Parliament at NTNU, the Student Parliament at DMMH, BI, and the vocational colleges affiliated with Sit. The first three elect representatives directly to the Welfare Council, while the vocational colleges jointly elect one representative. The Welfare Council also has Welfare Officers in Gjøvik and Ålesund. These officers are part of their respective student parliaments affiliated with NTNU, but the person serving as Welfare Officer does not have to be an NTNU student. The Executive Committee consists of a Chair, a Deputy Chair, a Communications Officer, and an Associations Officer, all based in Trondheim.
