Marit de Ridder | Faces of FEB
The Faculty of Economics and Business is a faculty with great diversity of people. But who are these people? Within ‘Faces of FEB’ we talk to different students of the faculty and give a little peek into the world of these FEB students. This week: Marit de Ridder, who is currently fulfilling the role as vice-chairman at study association EBF.
Written by Jessica Paas
Note that the first part of the interview took place before the coronavirus made its way to the Netherlands. Due to all the measures taken by the government we got in touch with Marit again to ask how EBF deals with the situation.
Could you tell me a little bit about yourself?
Yes! My name is Marit de Ridder and I am 21 years old. I come from a village near Harderwijk, which is located close to the centre of the Netherlands. When I needed to choose a study programme, I knew I really wanted to study International Business (IB) due to its perfect combination of business, sociology and law courses. This programme can be done both in Groningen and Maastricht and so I came to Groningen!
You are a board member of EBF, right?
Yes! I am the vice-chairman of EBF, which is the faculty association for all students studying at FEB. As vice-chairman I am mainly busy with the study materials, such as books but also exam training sessions. Furthermore, I am the first supervisor of the EBF conference, which is the largest two-day student conference of the Netherlands. That is quite a task! Besides that, I spent many hours on the policies and the strategic side of running an association.
For who is EBF exactly?
EBF is the faculty association of FEB. Besides that, you have four more specific sub associations that are included in this structure: MARUG, RISK, VESTING and Tema. So, EBF is broader and oftentargeted at all students of the FEB. Whereas the sub associations are specified on their specific target groups like marketing of finance.
Two weeks later, when the coronavirus became a problem within the Netherlands.
How are you? Is everyone still healthy?
Yes, I’m fine, thank you! Due to my board year at the EBF, I am still quite busy, so it is not that I am bored at all. I really try to keep myself to a daily routine. At EBF everyone is still healthy and so is everyone else I know, luckily!! Everyone tries to keep themselves to the regulations, so we hope it will be over as soon as possible in the Netherlands!
What does your board year look like now?
Unfortunately, many events are cancelled, but we still need to work to keep the organization up and running. I noticed that within this period many creative ideas are brought up to make things possible. I really admire the creativity and perversion of our active members.
What kind of creative ideas?
We, for example, set up a ‘committee quarantine challenge’ in which committees can earn points for certain challenges. The challenges we did are for instance a skype session with your committee, making a TikTok dance, or making a group photo through the use of Photoshop! Through these challenges committees still keep in touch with each other.
And how do you keep everything up and running?
Everything we do is online through Google Hangout! We even did a fun board evening through google hangout since we missed each other too much. Even though not much is happening during the weekends, we still want to keep each other up to date!
What are the things you have to work on from home at the moment?
At the moment we are very busy with the board interviews. On 14 April, the new board of The EBF will still be announced, so we are working on finding new board members. These interviews are also held through Google Hangout, which is new and quite challenging! Further, we still have some policy points we can work on from home and we still need to guide the committees.
This is not a fun ending of your board year!
No it is not, but we cannot do anything about it. There are students that have study related delays or there are students that are on exchange. Everyone has something in which they are affected by the coronavirus, but we are stuck in this together!
| Last modified: | 31 January 2021 3.50 p.m. |