Federal Student Union Conference
A Federal Student Council ( BuFaTa for short ) or Federal Student Council ( BuFaK or BuFaKo ) is a voluntary nationwide representation of the interests of students in one or more subject areas at technical colleges and / or universities in Germany. The organizations get their name from the regular meetings at which delegates from the local student councils usually come together.
Story and purpose
Until the 1960s, subject-related student interests were represented by the professional associations of what was then the Association of German Student Unions (VDS). After this had temporarily collapsed in the wake of the 1968 student riots and did not set up any professional associations after that, numerous student council representatives formed new associations at the federal level since the 1970s in order to represent their common interests. In contrast to the earlier VDS professional associations, these are now formally outside the student umbrella organization fzs , especially since more and more student bodies are cross-border, i.e. H. Organize including Austrian and Swiss universities.
Until the end of the 1990s, most of the federal student council meetings were more informal, primarily aimed at getting to know one another and exchanging information. Since the introduction of the Bologna Process, they have become increasingly important in terms of higher education policy. B. in the accreditation of graded courses of study ( Bachelor / Master ) and, in addition to the fzs and the state student representatives, belong to the group of organizations that are allowed to send student representatives to the accrediting agencies and their expert commissions as well as to the Accreditation Council . Federal student council meetings are also generally asked for and recognized by the respective faculty meetings and professional associations (e.g. VDI ) as discussion partners.
organization
The level of organization of the individual federal student council meetings is quite different and ranges from informal meetings to a registered association with a permanent secretariat.
The representatives' meetings, which take place every year or every six months, are alternately organized by a local student council. The meetings usually last several days and often include specialist excursions. University policy statements are drawn up for other committees, such as the relevant faculty day , and delegates are often elected for this purpose. Topics are usually subject-specific student issues such as B. the further development of the courses , exchange about admission and accreditation procedures.
Furthermore, many federal student councils send representatives to the meta-conference of student councils, or MeTaFa for short.
List of federal student council meetings (sorted by subject)
| Surname | abbreviation | First date |
|---|---|---|
| Federal Agricultural Student Council | BAFT | 2017 |
| International student council conference on archeology | IFaTa archeology | 2005 |
| Federal Student Council Architecture | BuFaK architecture | |
| Civil engineering student council conference | BauFaK | circa 1970 |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Biology | BuFaTa biology | 1979 |
| Federal symposium of chemistry departments | BuFaTa chemistry | 1990 |
| Conference of Computational Linguistics Students | TaCoS | 1992 |
| Federal Student Council for Electrical Engineering | BuFaTa-ET | 1974 |
| Student Council Protestant Theology | SETh | 1995 |
| Gender Studies Student Councils | BuFaTa Gender Studies | 2013 |
| Conference of Geodesy Students | KonGeoS | 2012 (1970) |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Geography | BuFaTa geography | |
| Geophysical action program | Cap | 1985 |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Geosciences | BuFaTa geosciences | 1982 |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Geoecology | BuFaTa geoecology | |
| Federal student council conference history | BuFaTa story | |
| Conference of the computer science faculties | KIF | 1973 |
| Federal Association of Law Schools | BuFaTa Jura | 2009/2012 |
| Working group for students of Catholic theology in Germany | AGT | |
| Art history student congress | KSK | 1969 |
| Student conference landscape | LASKO | 1987 |
| Mechanical engineering student council | FaTaMa | 1953 |
| Conference of all materials engineering and materials science courses | KaWuM | 2012 |
| Conference of the German-speaking mathematics faculties | Coma | 1977 |
| Federal representation of medical students in Germany | bvmd | 1947 |
| Conference of the medical technology faculties | COMET | 2014 |
| Student meteorological conference | StuMeTa | |
| Federal Student Council Meeting for Molecular and Biomedicine | MolMedNET | 2009 |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Musicology | BuFaTa musicology | 2010 |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Pedagogy and Educational Sciences | PädFaTa | 2014 |
| Organization of students in nursing and health sciences | OStiPuG | |
| Federal Association of Pharmacy Students in Germany | BPhD | 1948 |
| Federal Student Council Conference on Philosophy V. | BuFaTa philosophy | Dec 2012 |
| Meeting of all physics faculties | ZaPF | 1980 |
| Federal Student Council Conference Political Science | BuFaTa politics | |
| Psychology student council conference | PsyFaKo | 2005 |
| Planner meeting - Federal Student Council for Urban and Spatial Planning | PIT | Early 1990s |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Special Education Generation Inclusion | BuFaTa SoPäd | |
| Student councils of sociology | BuFaTa sociology | |
| Federal Student Union Conference on Sport and Exercise Science | BuFaTa SpoWi | |
| Federal Student Union Conference for Linguistics | BuFaTa Sprawi | 2012 |
| Federal Student Council Meeting Statistics | BuFaTa statistics | |
| Federal Student Council Transport | BuFaTa traffic | 2008 |
| German-speaking student council conference for veterinary medicine | DFKV | |
| Federal Student Union Conference WiSo | BuFaK WiSo | 1977 |
| Federal Association of Dental Students in Germany V. | BdZM | |
| Federal Student Union Conference for Media Students | MeStuTa | 2009 |
| Meeting of general engineering students | AIS | 2013 |
Web links
- German federal student council meetings in the student address reader
Individual evidence
- ↑ MeTaFa-Wiki. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
- ↑ From 1993–2016 the meeting took place under the name “Federal Student Councils Conference on Agricultural Sciences and Ecotrophology (Symbiosis)”, previously it was called the ELFG conference (Nutrition-Agriculture-Forests-Horticulture), see symbiose.de ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in Internet Archive )
- ↑ BuFaTaChemie - Federal conference of chemistry-related student bodies in German-speaking countries. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ When it was founded, the SETh united the West German student union "Association of Protestant Theology Students - Conference of Theological Student Unions (VeTh / KthF)", which had existed in this form since 1982, and the East German "Evangelical Student Council (ESRA)". interseth.de ( Memento from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ KonGeoS was created in 2012 from the merger of the former "Working Group of Geodesy Students" (since 1970) and the "Conference of Surveying Students" (since 1997). kongeos.de
- ↑ geodach.org
- ↑ geophysikstudenten.de
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ KaWuM - Conference of all materials engineering and materials science courses. Retrieved June 17, 2020 (German).
- ↑ molmednet.de
- ↑ dvsm.de
- ↑ bufata-philosophie.de
- ↑ medienstudierende.eu ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ais.aiw-ges.de