Sign up to be a Buddy

Registration to become a buddy for the autumn semester of 2024 is open during the month of March:

• Sign up as a Buddy

Buddy

When you sign up as a buddy you are expected to take care of the new students within a programme. We try to the greatest extent possible to ensure that you become a buddy for someone starting the same program as you.

Contact buddy

Being a contact buddy means that you will assist your program director in planning today's program meeting and be a channel to the other program buddies in your program. You will also be a channel to the new students by making sure they are contacted via email/social media before the intro.

International buddy

At the University of Skövde there are also students from large parts of the world and they need you. Moving to a new country to study is a big adjustment.

As an international buddy, you become a great and important support during the first time for someone in a new country. For you as a buddy, it is a chance to get to make friends with people from other countries. Large parts of the world are actually represented here at the University. As an international buddy you are expected to participate during the international introduction.

We provide you with buddy training

To prepare you for the assignment as a buddy, the University, together with the student union and student health, holds a mandatory buddy training which is divided into two parts.

Training part 1

• Part 1 is takes place on 23 april at 17:15 on Zoom: https://his-se.zoom.us/j/63008486011

Training part 2

• Part 2 takes place on 14 May at 17:15 in room D105 and D107

Set up

For those of you who want to be international buddies:

• To participate as international buddies this year, everyone needs to attend both parts 1 and 2, even if you have been an international buddy before.

For those of you who only want to be buddies for one program:

• If you have not been a buddy before, you have to attend both part 1 and 2.
• If you have been a buddy before, you only have to attend part 2.

We expect you to participate in the joint activities during the introduction weeks, when all new students arrive.

Contribute without being a buddy

If you want to be involved during the induction weeks, but perhaps don't really have time to be a buddy, we have something for you as well. The student union needs help with a number of practical things during the first weeks of the semester. Or maybe your student association needs you to you talk about the association's activities and recruit new members. Contact the Student Union's intro general if you are interested: introgeneral@studentkaren.se