Our Vision
In 2022, the Groep-één association drafted up a multi-annual vision on the goals and ideals for the 2020-2030 decade. The pillars of the Groep-één vision are:
- Quality of Education
- Wellbeing & Community
- Inclusivity, Diversity & Social Safety
- Personal & Professional Development
- Sustainability
- Facilities & Housing
For the year 2025 Groep-één has set specific goals for what we want to work on, push for and pay attention to, that align with the multi-annual vision. These goals can be found below.
Quality of Education:
- Ensuring a smooth transition towards Graduate School 2.0.
- Improve the link between curriculum and industry.
- Make a uniform mentor process.
- Make the PER more readable.
- Shape your own education in elective space.
- Push for better accommodation of extracurricular activities in the new graduate school to motivate student success alongside study success.
- Ensuring the quality of education in all departments meet the TU/e standards.
Wellbeing & Community:
- Making sure that internationals feel welcome and stay welcome.
- Involving international students for an active student life.
- Ensuring sufficient support for student organizations in a growing and changing community, by making it a university-wide priority.
- Push for student involvement in student-life vision.
- Embracing continuity of all departments.
- Making sure that the TU/e will keep focusing on student wellbeing with the current budget cuts.
Personal & Professional development:
- Standardizing financial compensation for full-time student team members.
- Staying involved in the pilot of the confidentiality support for student teams.
- Ensuring fair and balanced student representation in the student life vision.
- Ensuring that associations get the proper recognition.
- Having the university help sufficiently in terms of advice and recruitment to promote the value of an active student life.
- Continue celebrating student success alongside study success.
Sustainability:
- Creating more transparency about sustainability.
- Ensuring good coherence between the different sustainability actors at the TU/e.
Facilities & Campus:
- Ensuring enough study places on campus.
- Including student input in the discussion about opening times for buildings.
- Making sure students are affected minimally by the moving of the departments.
- Creating a better system with less paper-waste for informing surrounding residents of upcoming events.
- Improve the bike parking facilities.
- Pushing the catering company to provide nutritious hot meals during lunch time.
If you want to know what we have done over the past years to pursue these ideals, check out our contributions!
The party manifesto covers each (and more) of the above points in detail. Click below to download it as pdf.
