The Delft International Students’ Society (DISS) has reorganised itself to become a better co-ordinated organisation. Last night, they celebrated their metamorphosis.
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”DISS is like NATO, it’s an umbrella organisation for several international societies,” explains Geoff Morris, an English member of DISS. ”To get legal status, the former DISS gave up its legal status and name. Now, our cooperative is called DISS and the former society is called the International Club.”
Seven societies shelter underneath DISS’ umbrella: Ansa (Norwegian), Isan (Iranian), Academia (Turkish), MSVD (Moroccan), PPI (Indonesian), CSS (Chinese), and the International Club, whose student members are of many different nationalities, although, at the moment, half its members are Dutch.
”Until now, every society was minding its own business. But now we’ve joined forces and are aware of each other’s activities and can organise big events together, like a symposium,” Morris explains, adding that every society is obliged to have a member on DISS’s executive board.
In general, these societies are social clubs. In future, DISS hopes to cooperate with the TU in hosting international Ph.D. students, who stay in Delft for longer periods of time.
www.oli.tudelft.nl/diss
diss@oli.tudelft.nl
The Delft International Students’ Society (DISS) has reorganised itself to become a better co-ordinated organisation. Last night, they celebrated their metamorphosis.
”DISS is like NATO, it’s an umbrella organisation for several international societies,” explains Geoff Morris, an English member of DISS. ”To get legal status, the former DISS gave up its legal status and name. Now, our cooperative is called DISS and the former society is called the International Club.”
Seven societies shelter underneath DISS’ umbrella: Ansa (Norwegian), Isan (Iranian), Academia (Turkish), MSVD (Moroccan), PPI (Indonesian), CSS (Chinese), and the International Club, whose student members are of many different nationalities, although, at the moment, half its members are Dutch.
”Until now, every society was minding its own business. But now we’ve joined forces and are aware of each other’s activities and can organise big events together, like a symposium,” Morris explains, adding that every society is obliged to have a member on DISS’s executive board.
In general, these societies are social clubs. In future, DISS hopes to cooperate with the TU in hosting international Ph.D. students, who stay in Delft for longer periods of time.
www.oli.tudelft.nl/diss
diss@oli.tudelft.nl
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