Röskva is a student body organization at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' s ...

that has had a list to the Student Council of the UI since 1988. The tag-line of the organization is ''Organization of socially minded students at the

''. Röskva is currently in majority of the Student Council. Röskva nominates to the paid positions at the Student Council's Office.

History

Röskva was founded in February the year 1988 when two movements merged, The organization of left people and Reformists decided that combined they would be a bigger force to compete against Vaka, the organization of democratic students. The first chair of the organization was

Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir Þórunn Sveinbjarnardóttir Þ is the letter thorn, which in Icelandic represents a voiceless dental fricative, as in the English word "thick." (born 22 November 1965) is an Icelandic politician. A graduate of the University of Iceland and the ...

the former Environment minister in the government of Geir Haarde. Röskva first was in the majority in 1992 and kept it until 2002, when Vaka regained its majority. Röskva got the majority again in the spring of 2007 and kept it until the spring of 2009. In 2017, Röskva won the election to the Student Council after eight years in minority, and received 18 of the 27 student councils members, which was at the time the biggest victory in Röskva's history. In 2018, the organization won again and held the majority with 18 members. Röskva's biggest victory came in 2021 where they won 16 of 17 seats available. The organization opposes school admission fees and advocates for general access to university education. It is Röskva's opinion that the Student Council should not only exert itself within the

but outside of it as well.

Chair of the Student Council for Röskva

* 1991-1992 –

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* 1992-1993 – Pétur Þ. Óskarsson * 1993-1994 – Páll Magnússon * 1994-1995 –

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* 1995-1996 –

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* 1996-1997 – Vilhjálmur H. Vilhjálmsson * 1997-1998 – Haraldur Guðni Eiðsson * 1998-1999 – Ásdís Magnúsdóttir * 1999-2000 – Finnur Beck * 2000-2001 – Eiríkur Jónsson * 2001-2002 – Þorvarður Tjörvi Ólafsson * 2007-2008 – Dagný Ósk Aradóttir * 2008-2009 – Björg Magnúsdóttir * 2017-2018 – Ragna Sigurðardóttir * 2018-2019 – Elísabet Brynjarsdóttir * 2019-2020 – Jóna Þórey Pétursdóttir * 2020-2021 – Isabel Alejandra Diaz * 2021-2022 – Isabel Alejandra Diaz * 2022-2023 – Rebekka Karlsdóttir

External links

roskva.hi.is
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