The greatest competitor for participation at the university are side jobs. Especially German students rather choose for sitting at the checkout counter or working in the cinema. This allows them to get the Dutch scholarship from IB-Groep, in contrast to participate at their university and doing something good for it. The law at the moment says that EU students may get the scholarship from IB-Groep of 250 Euros per month if they work 32 hours a month in the Netherlands. But combining this work and participating at the university does not work, as it is too time consuming. So they have to decide, and because activities at the University is the considered work, they often choose for side jobs.
The university council party UReka is elaborating this issue and working on a solution for it on a national level. To be successful with this plan to make the scholarship accessible for active EU-students, a strong lobby and feedback from the University is needed in order to prove that this problem really is very important for many associations and students.
UReka thus wants to invite UT-students that feel affected by this theme to give comments and be heard. Help give this issue a broad base.
Students can contact us by e-mail: [email protected], you may also make an appointment to discuss this.
