Wellbeing budget

Bring up your idea to improve student wellbeing

As part of the TU/e’s efforts to support student wellbeing, we find it important to empower and enable students to come up with new ideas and initiatives to support their peers and community. 

Students often know best what they need to feel and be well, and we are excited to be able to facilitate their ideas. As such, we have opened up the bottom up wellbeing budget that students and community members of the TU/e can apply for. 

The first round was held in the beginning of this year, and proposal that were accepted included:  

  • Buying sports and crafting supplies to make available for students to use via study associations  
  • Updating the information provided on financial support and DUO, as well as organising an info session with DUO for incoming students  
  • Organising peer support sessions and expert talks for gifted students  

At this moment, you cannot submit any proposals. Once a new proposal round opens, you can apply through this page.

Criteria

To be considered all applications need to be aligned with the following criteria: 

  • Impact on wellbeing: To what extend does this proposal impact student wellbeing? Which dimension(s) does it target? What is the effect? 
  • Target audience: What group of students are targeted? Is it an overarching and diverse group? (Note: proposals addressing diverse and interdisciplinary groups will be favoured). 
  • Sustainable impact: How long lasting and sustainable is the impact of this proposal? We will favour proposals with more sustainable impact. If a one-off event is organized, we would like to see how follow ups are going to be included. 
  • Diversity/Interdisciplinarity of organizing group and target audience: We will favour proposals that are organized from an interdisciplinary group of students. Of course associations or students from one department can apply, however we want to encourage across-university collaboration and initiatives that extend our association culture. It is also possible to collaborate between students and staff members. 
    In the first round of applications, proposal that were targeting only the members of one association were not accepted. Only if they were able to extend the proposal to a larger target group did we accept the proposal.  
  • Evidence of needs of students: What are the needs of students behind this proposal? Is there evidence for these needs? We will favour proposals that are needs-based. 
  • Cost ratio: What is the cost per student supported ratio? Proposals that are very costly but only target a small group of students will not be favoured.  
  • Feasibility plan: How will you implement and organise the proposal? We are happy to discuss all types of ideas and proposals, however it is important that proposals have a clear implementation plan. Please describe this as part of your application.  

Exclusion criteria

  • We will not accept proposals for parties. Events that include a party or a borrel at the end are okay.
  • We will not fund alcohol, even at borrels.

Examples of possible initiatives

  • Organizing workshops for students on specific topics
  • Organizing a mini conference about wellbeing for all students
  • The start up funding for a wellbeing related student-team or project group

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to Anneke Sikkema.