September 2025, #student
Introduce yourself and tell us a bit about yourself (tell us about your home university, your studies, your passion or whatever else you would like to share).
Hello everyone, my name is Milan Wolf and I am a student Public Administration (BA) at Saxion University of Applied Sciences (UAS) from the Netherlands. In the past, I tried the teacher study and I have a degree in HR. I am twenty-six years old and I am a volunteer board coach where I coach students who are board members in Student Unions at both UAS and Research Universities. Saxion UAS is located in the east of the Netherlands in exactly three different cities, Enschede; Deventer; and Apeldoorn.
What motivated you to join the Student Executive Board and get involved with the E³UDRES² alliance?
I joined to Student Executive Board in the study year 2022-2023, back when the students got the opportunity to start the student boards. The moment I got to know E³UDRES² it instantly got all of my attention. Being able to make impact for students all across Europe, getting to know different people and their cultures and being able to get life long relations were very important to me. Due to my position as elected chair at my UAS central board, I was able to join the Student Executive Board both back then and now in this study year.
As the new chair of the Executive Student Board, what are your goals and expectations? What would you like to accomplish during your term, and what are your future aspirations?
I was chosen and trusted with the position of chair of the Executive Student Board at the start of December 2024. I used the rest of December to talk to Ferree as vice chair and to learn the internal E³UDRES² systems. As I promised to the students within the Executive Student Board, I want us as a full board to create a strong and sustainable foundation for future Executive Students and to create a sustainable approach for student engagement and student involvement. To achieve these goals, I also want to create internal taskforce like groups where Executive Students work together in a pressure cooker like way to achieve those goals in half a study year.
What has been the most rewarding aspect of being on the Student Executive Board so far?
In my opinion the open and transparent in combination with direct communication between the students makes sure that we as students work very efficient together. To see discussions forming where ideas, perspectives and opinions are shared is very rewarding to me as chair. I hope that we as Executive Student Board will maintain this workflow and ethics to create our E³UDRES² story.
Why should someone join the Student Board? What’s in it for students, and what do students gain from being part of E³UDRES²?
In my opinion, it is slightly odd that 8 students determine the direction of the student side of E³UDRES². That is why a lot of students should take the opportunity of voicing their opinions, vision and ideas to elevate E³UDRES² even further.
Interview by USTP
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