Green & Alternative Students

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The Green & Alternative Student_innen (GRAS) are one of the party The Greens - The Green Alternative related political students association in Austria resulting from the & Green alternatives election platform emerged and the first time in 1993 in elections to the Austrian Students' Union (ÖH) took . The GRAS currently hold 13 mandates in the federal representation of the ÖH and are thus the second strongest force after the Action Community and before the VSStÖ . With a brief interruption in 2009, GRAS has been part of the executive branch of the ÖH federal representation since 2001. It is currently the strongest force in the coalition with the VSStÖ and the FLÖ. Adrijana Novakovic is currently the chairwoman of the ÖH federal representation.

history

In 1995 the GRAS became the second largest group in the student parliament and together with the VSStÖ and the KSV and other left and left-liberal student groups were able to form a majority. In 1997 this majority was lost and in 2001 GRAS was able to appoint Anita Weinberger, the first green chairwoman of the federal representation. In 2003 it finally succeeded in becoming the parliamentary group with the largest number of votes, with 29% of the votes, and pushing the previously dominant Action Community to second place. Despite the change in the electoral system, the GRAS was again the parliamentary group with the largest number of votes in 2005 and, with 14 seats, achieved the highest number of direct seats. In the 2007 election, GRAS was able to expand its mandates to 15, but only became the second strongest force behind the AktionGemeinschaft. After the election, a three-party coalition between GRAS, VSStÖ and FLÖ was agreed, which broke in June 2008. In the subsequent election in 2009, the GRAS was the third strongest power in terms of mandates and the second strongest power in terms of votes in the ÖH. With Sigrid Maurer , she chaired the ÖH federal representation for two years. In 2011, the GRAS lost slightly, but continued to chair the ÖH federal representation with 14 mandates and Janine Wulz .

The deficit Café Rosa , supported by the coalition of the Austrian Students' Union at the University of Vienna (GRAS, VSStÖ and KSV-Lili ) from May 2011 to October 2013, attracted a great deal of media attention due to its major financial problems and allegations of infidelity 2013 resulted in significant losses in GRAS at federal level. The party therefore achieved two fewer seats in 2013 and has since held 12 seats in the federal representation of the ÖH. In the 2015 ÖH elections, the GRAS achieved 20.06% more votes than 4% more than in 2013, the number of mandates remained at 12, but the total number of mandates decreased from 100 to 55, which is an increase of around for the GRAS 10% of mandate strength meant.

In October 2016, the student organization Green Students was founded in Styria and Upper Austria . One of the spokespersons for the Green Students , Johannes Steiner, commented on GRAS that she “adheres to the principle of consensus”, which means that officials are not elected secretly, and that, in his opinion, they act “anti-democratically”. The group located in the left spectrum also accused GRAS of failure and deterioration in content. The GRAS, on the other hand, accuses those people from the environment of the Young Greens with a lack of insight into the organizational structure of the GRAS, belief in hierarchy and anti-feminism. Incidentally, it is a project of narcissistic individuals.

The Green students received support from the youth organization, while the GRAS from the parent party. In the run-up to the ÖH elections in May 2017, the dispute escalated because it was stated that at least at the universities in Linz and Graz two competing green lists could compete. Finally, on March 30, 2017, the Austrian Greens separated from their previous youth organization.

Positions

The GRAS see themselves as a grassroots , anti-discriminatory, ecologically sustainable, anti-capitalist , anti-fascist and (queer *) feminist faction. Further principles are solidarity, anti-racist, self-determined and critical of the system. The GRAS are not part of the Green Party, but see themselves as part of the Green Alternative Movement and are temporarily supported financially by the Greens.

GRAS groups at universities

In 2015 the Greens & Alternative Students (GRAS) ran at the following universities:

Group names by university
University of Vienna Green & alternative students at the University of Vienna
technical University of Vienna GRAS TU Vienna
University of Economy Vienna GRAS WU Vienna
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna bagru * gras * boku
University of Graz GRAS Graz
Graz University of Technology Basic list of alternative technicians (BLATT)
Medical University of Graz GRAS-Med Graz
Graz University of Art GRAS art Graz
University of Salzburg GRASS Salzburg
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences GRAS University of Applied Sciences Salzburg
Mozarteum University GRAS Mozarteum
University of Innsbruck GRASS Innsbruck
Medical University Innsbruck Platform for committed students with optimism * Green & Alternative students (PESTO * GRAS)
Johannes Kepler University Linz GRASS Linz
University of Klagenfurt Green & alternative students Carinthia / Koroška

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ ÖH election 2019: ÖH federal representation , ÖH federal representation, accessed on September 1, 2019.
  3. GRAS is punished for Café Rosa. diePresse.com, May 17, 2013, accessed April 6, 2015 .
  4. Green students have split . In: DiePresse.com . ( diepresse.com [accessed November 1, 2016]).
  5. WZ Online, APA: "Green students" split off from GRAS . In: Uni aktuell . ( wienerzeitung.at [accessed on November 1, 2016]).
  6. Green left group splits off from ÖH parliamentary group grass. Der Standard, October 11, 2016, accessed March 31, 2017.
  7. GRAS statement on the “project” green students: GRAS. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 18, 2017 ; accessed on February 17, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gras.at
  8. Lisa Kogelnik ÖH election: What's behind the green conflict. Der Standard, March 23, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017.
  9. Katharina Mittelstaedt: Greens separate from young Greens. Der Standard, March 30, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017.
  10. Principles of the grass ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on gras.at, accessed on April 25, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gras.at