This is SSN
SSN - contributing to the good student life. Our vision is: A good student life - for all, forever.
The Students' welfare organisation
The Student Welfare Organisation in Southeast Norway (SSN) is the students' welfare organisation, providing student housing, cafeterias, sports centers, bookstores, health services and various student benefits.
If you have paid your semester fee and are a student at one of the following institutions, you are eligible to use SSN´s welfare benefits:
Watch our film "Who is SSN":
Who is SSN and what is a studentsamskipnad? Student and chairperson in SSN, Emma Holt, explains.
Partly financed by the semester fee
The semester fee helps to finance our services, which are:
Student housing on all of USN's eight campuses.
Twelve eateries.
SSN Health, offering free help from psychologists and therapists, and preventive mental health initiatives with student relations counsellors/coordinators on all campuses.
Bookstores on seven USN-campuses.
Sports centres on Campus Vestfold, Drammen and Ringerike.
Financial and administrative support for student associations and organisations.
Semester fee = Valid student ID
The semester fee is a statutory fee for all students who register for the exam. It helps to cover the operation of the student organization and any expenses for copies and transcripts. Once the semester fee has been paid, your student ID is valid.
It is the educational institution you belong to, that collects and registers the payment of the semester fee. If you are having questions regarding payment, deadlines or need a confirmation of your payment and the registration of you as a student, please contact your campus, not SSN.
Deadlines for paying the semester fee:
1 September for fall semester
1 February for spring semester
A statutory organisation
The Student Welfare Organisation of Southeast Norway (SSN) is governed by the Student Welfare Organisation Act, saying that the student welfare organisation's responsibility is to provide welfare services to the students at educational institutions.
The profits go back to the students
Our welfare services are funded through semester fees, direct government support, grants and free premises from the educational institutions. Any surplus is returned to operations to create better or new services for the students.
The students are in majority in SSN's board, and the chairman of the board is also a student.