Our Achievements
Over the past years, Groep-één has brought a lot of improvements to TU/e. Without Groep-één, these projects would not have been realized! Our biggest achievements over the past few years are:
📚 Quality of education:
- Ensured more student input in the revision of the Bachelor College (Cursor)
- Removal of USE lines in the revision of the Bachelor College (Cursor)
- Maintained the quality of education during corona by leading student focus groups and being critical towards rushed decisions
💛 Wellbeing & community:
- Arranged extra exam resit chances for courses during COVID-19 period.
- Appointment of a full-time wellbeing officer to advise in TU/e policy from a (student) wellbeing perspective
- Founded the Student Wellbeing Network (SWeN), which helps study/student associations in handling student wellbeing (TU/e News)
🌍 Inclusivity, diversity & social safety:
- Appointment of a full-time diversity officer to advise in TU/e policy from a diversity/internationalisation perspective (Cursor)
- Leading the social safety committee after reports of sexual harassment, discrimination and power abuse (Cursor)
🎓 Personal development:
- Arranged funds for full-time student team members (Cursor)
- Acknowledgement of boards and student teams as a form of personal development and involvement in TU/e community, and including them in the revised Bachelor College
- Increased board grants for non-EEA students to compensate for higher tuition fees, making a board year a feasible option (Cursor)
- Received approval for an elective course on personal development for boards and student teams (Happened this year!) (Cursor)
🌱 Sustainability
- Making sustainability a strategic pillar of the university (Cursor)
- Contributed to the ‘Sustainable Campus’ development plan with a vision for 2030
- First party to use sustainable posters during the campaign, inspiring others to follow suit
👩🏼🎓 Facilities & housing
- Sparked an investigation into the use of rooms and study places on campus
- Pushed for more student housing on campus, leading to 735 new apartments starting from 2023 (Cursor)
- Metaforum library only accessible for TU/e students during exam periods (Cursor)
- Arranged hybrid meeting rooms during the Corona pandemic
- Longer opening times on campus during the Corona pandemic