Chalmers Students' Union

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Chalmers Student Union (Chalmers Studentkår or ChS) is the student union at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. Its primary purpose is to look after the interests of the students of the university in questions regarding the education. The student union also arranges one of Europe's largest labour market days, CHARM.

The social committee of ChS, consisting of 6 members, is called FestU. It was founded in 1948.[1] FestU's primary job is to arrange big parties for the student union members, their biggest event of the year is Valborgskalaset which is held April 30 every year.

History

The union was founded in 1904, and the first charter of the organisation was adopted in 1906. In 1911 a proposal to start

corporations, including Cremona, a bookstore which became an aktiebolag in 1988. A new union building was inaugurated in 2001. The building was drawn by Gert Wingårdh and won the Kasper Salin Prize
that year.

Notable pranks

In 1955, a student at the university, Rickard Wilson, held a fake

China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong
for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Festkommittén FestU". festu.se.

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