 Do you know that you can participate in deciding how things are done at your university? There are various ways in which students can have a voice in decision-making processes at Tilburg University. They can do so actively as a member of Student Party's Front or SAM in the University Council, as a participant in a program committee or school council, or as a student member of a school board. But you can also share your opinion with fellow students who play an active role. For example, what we achieved last year was a regulation on the timeframe between the publishing of the results of a regular exam and the reset of the specific exam. My name is Bob Bokbeer. I'm studying in my third year of the Bachelor of Dutch Law and my function is being a coordinator of the program committee belonging to Tilburg Law School. It's hard to give a concrete example of what we talk about. It's about policy and budgets, but also about new programs, for example. I'm Lawrence Bolte. I'm a master's student supply chain management at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management and currently I'm the student advisor of the faculty management team. Last year we had this case and the management team wanted pre-master students to obtain five out of five courses in their first half year at the university. We have student party, but okay, that's not really fair. And we just said no, we do not agree with that, what about four out of five? My role entails working in a team of students and professors whose objective is guarding, maintaining and improving the quality of our education. It means that I advise the faculty management team on policy issues. Six times a year we come together with the faculty council and we defend the interests of students. I advise on policy issues from a student perspective. Well you have different stakeholders and different interests and these can clash. During these meetings we set goals for the future in order to improve our education. We are with seven and we always make sure that those seven votes are for the same directions. I'm the linking pin between the student community and the faculty management team. Of course you have your main objective of having good and high quality education. I think I've learned a lot from this political playground. It creates an opportunity to develop a lot of skills such as negotiating. By just knowing it is there you can probably understand organizations way better. You want to say you studied a good program at a good faculty at a good university. My creed is practice what you preach so get into action when it's needed. If you want to make a change you should join that's where you can make a change that's where you can help make the faculty better. Do you want to learn more about student participation at Tilburg University? Please visit our website for more information.