How do you actually start a student organisation?

Feel you that a student organization is missing at UiS? Or do you just want to start a new organization? If you or several people have a common interest in an issue, or want to bring together a group with the same affiliation and commitment, you can start a student organization or line association. You then become a start-up group that works together to get the line association or student organization up and running.

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Commitment is important! Here is a picture of engaged students on a sunny day outside the Students' House.

How do you proceed?

1. Form a startup group

To be able to start an organization / association, there are some things that must be in place. The first thing to do is to form a startup group that can design these points. If some of those in the start-up group join the board, it is not so stupid. The start-up group shall:

1. Determine the organization's name
2. Determine the organization's purpose
3. Create the organization's statutes (laws/guidelines)
4. Find members for the organization's board (must have at least 3)
5. Invite to a foundation meeting

Template for articles of association that can be used as inspiration:

Example of Articles of Association

2. Founding meeting

For a foundation meeting, it is important to have the following in place:

1. Speaker
2. Speaker
3. Protocol signatories
4. Counting corps


It is at this meeting that the name, purpose and articles of association of the organization are to be decided. It is advisable that those who have prepared the articles of association and determined the purpose agree on the content. It is also possible for those present to make suggestions for changes during the foundation meeting. It is those who present at the meeting who ultimately decide what the articles of association shall contain. In other words, it is those present who have the right to vote.

3. The Brønnøysund register

In order to create a bank account and be registered as an organization or association, you have to register the organization/association in the Brønnøysund register. Once the registration has been completed, you will receive an organization number and from there a bank account can be set up in the association's name. It is required that the governing documents of the organization are in order, this is something the deputy head of the learning environment can help you with.
Step by step registration - Brønnøysund
4. Make a collaboration agreement with StOr

By signing a cooperation agreement with us, and thus being part of the StOr umbrella, your association/organization can promote itself at UiS and receive organizational assistance from StOr if needed. You also get access to the committed meetings, where all associations/organizations meet. The committed meetings are to create a meeting place for organizations and associations where they can learn from each other and get useful information. In addition, organizations and associations that are under the StOr umbrella can apply for office space at SiS Studenthus.

COOPERATION

5. Profiling of the student organisation

In order for other students to know about the organization, you should find good ways to profile the organization. Some suggestions for what you can do are: create a Facebook group, and / or an Instagram profile, hang up posters and stand on stand. There are many other ways to profile an organization, but those who sit on the board should agree on this. The goal of the profiling will be to reach potential members and perhaps future board members. If you would like help promoting the organization/association's start-up, just contact the welfare and learning environment manager by email (laringsmiljo@stor.uis.no), or stop by the office on the 2nd floor at SiS Studenthus!

6. Start-up funds: Welfare Council in Stavanger​

To obtain financial resources, you can apply for start-up funds at the Welfare Parliament in Stavanger (VT). They receive applications for start-up funds throughout the year and the application is processed at the first meeting after it has been submitted. VT will then adopt a sum on the basis of the documents submitted, and according to what they believe is justifiable.
Apply for start-up funds
Contact information StOr

7. Operating funds: Student Parliament at UiS

At the beginning of each year, operating funds are allocated to all organizations under the StOr umbrella. The deadline for applying for operating funds is December 21 of the previous year, and the allocation meeting is usually the second meeting after the new year. StOr receives funding from the Welfare Council in Stavanger (VT) based on a distribution key of the money VT receives from the Student Association in Stavanger (SiS).

Information on how to apply will be announced at volunteer meetings and on StOr's communication channels. It is often the operating funds that form the basis for the operation of a student organization at UiS.