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IPPNW-Students Sweden

2005 Report

The student group in Sweden has in the last years consisted of a small group of dedicated students. Now the group is growing and has lots of ideas and plans for the future, especially after the European Student Conference in Dublin. There are about 10-15 active students, out of almost 100 student members. There is a lot of cooperation with IFMSA, especially the SCORP-groups, which in parts share the same agenda. There are six universities with medical schools, in six different cities; Stockholm, Uppsala, Lund, Goeteborg, Linkoeping and Umeaa.

Together with the IFMSA Peace & Refugee group (SCORP), the Swedish IPPNW students organized a series of lectures about nuclear weapons in three of our six medical colleges. In Uppsala there was also a poster exhibition, which was shown in the University Hospital. The whole idea was to try to raise awareness about the issues among other medical students.

The great tradition of the "Nuclear Movie Night” was also started, with a film about nuclear weapons and a discussion and some food afterwards. The first film to be shown was the 1964 Stanley Kubrick classic: "Dr Strangelove – or how I stopped worrying and love the bomb”. There are plans to continue this series in at least four cities! Next up is the film "13 days” about the Cuban missile crisis.

Flyers are being published to attract new members, the Mayors for Peace initiative is being supported, work on the "brilliant NWIP" is being continued as more and more people join the project and the students are regularly updating the Swedish Homepage. Going public, the students have also written articles for the SLMK paper about national and international student activities, and are currently checking if any other local newspapers or medical magazines would accept an article from them.

2004 Report

Sweden"s IPPNW students receive great support from their affiliate and cooperate with the physicians in a variety of projects. The Swedish pioneering role in bringing students to Board meetings and introducing them to the International IPPNW early on has proven to be a successful way of fostering interest and ensuring continuity and should be taken up by other affiliates in due course. The students are very involved in the NWIP, having joined delegations to India, Pakistan, the US and Russia this year and organizing further trips to China and a meeting with NATO officials in Brussels. Cooperation between IFMSA and IPPNW is facilitated through the student representative, Martina Grosch, and generally works well, augmenting local IPPNW work in Sweden and ensuring growing membership.