Humanities International Social Events

HISE (Humanities International Social Events) is all about building a global community for international students at the Faculty of Humanities. With the active involvement of our international student coordinators, Marie and Ida, we create a friendly environment that connects students before and during their semester(s)! 

To achieve this, HISE focuses on early communication, recurring events, and exciting activities. Especially at the start of each semester, where the Orientation Programme encompasses a mix of social bonding activities and captivating presentations led by the Faculty of Humanities employees. 

WhatsApp is our pivotal communication tool for international students. Within these groups, students can interact with both us (during working hours) and their peers. The platform facilitates event updates, reminders, and information sharing, and even enables collaborative activity planning. For that reason, we have different WhatsApp groups all with different purposes; either purely social, a group for official events, a flea market group, and a group for the international students who choose to volunteer. 

In the event calendar you can keep up with all the social activities such as Music Bingo, winter bathing, or boardgame night. The HISE event team ensures there are activities for everyone’s liking. 

By joining the Whatsapp group you acknowledge and accept the Code of Conduct for using the chat room:

 

WhatsApp – Code of Conduct

 

The WhatsApp social chat: 

For each of our WhatsApp groups it is very important that you read the group descriptions of each group and follow the guidelines since they all have different purposes. All the WhatsApp group chats are exclusively for international students at UCPH. The WhatsApp social chat is intended for social initiatives only. Its purpose is to create a social community and a relaxed forum for the students, where they can reach out, interact and bond with each other, as well as a way for the student coordinators to interact with the students in this relaxed setting. This is to ensure that the students have better knowledge of what is going on socially at the university/in the city, have the chance to create a bigger social network, a community and thus a better exchange. Therefore, it is to ensure that we as an administrative department have a closer relationship with the students and thus can influence their exchange positively.   

 
The chat is a social community for all to bond with one another, and all non-related topics such as political opinions/topics and/or promotions will be deleted by the student coordinator. Questions regarding anything study-related must be directed to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk.  

 

Frame:  

  • The social chat is voluntary, and you are free to join/leave the group.
  • The social chat is for all international students enrolled in courses at Humanities at UCPH
  • The social chat is for everything social – social engagements/activities/initiatives etc. - either made by UCPH/HISE or by the international students themselves. 
  • Everyone is free to write in the chat whenever they want! But make sure it’s relevant to your peers and to the groups’ purpose. You are very welcome to invite each other to social things in the chat, but we encourage you to leave the practical planning of it in private chats for those involved to avoid spamming the chat.
  • The group is not for promotions or political statements – strictly for social initiatives made by us/you for you.
  • If you have any questions that are study-related, then you must write to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk 
  • The group is monitored by the Student Coordinator when at work and have the right to delete inappropriate content without further a due.

 

  • At UCPH we do not tolerate any form of harassment or offensive/inappropriate behavior, and therefore inappropriate or abusive behavior in the chat will not be tolerated! 
  • This chatroom is regulated in accordance with the guidelines for offensive behavior of UCPH. You can read more about UCPH’s definition of and guidelines for offensive behavior
    • If you act inappropriately, offensively or harass anyone in the chat, you will either get a warning or be removed from the chat without further notice. 
    • In case of gross violation of the guidelines, further consequences can be inaugurated.
  • At the end of each semester, UCPH will leave the WhatsApp chats, leaving it unsupervised. The students can stay in the chats if they wish, but UCPH will no longer regulate or be responsible for any content in the chat. 

 

The WhatsApp flea market:

Purpose:

This group is for everything practical that is not socially related. This means, that this group is the place to sell/buy furniture, bikes, books, look for new roommates, ask for recommendations regarding housing, shopping/grocery shopping etc.

Disclosure: UCPH can in no way be held responsible for the things that are purchased in the group – UCPH do not offer the user any guarantees or insurance in connection with their purchase of a product posted in the group. It is the students' own responsibility that what they buy works.

Dispute resolution procedures:
The Faculty of Humanities is not a party to any transactions or disputes between buyers and third-party sellers. In the event of a dispute, the buyer must contact the seller to attempt to resolve the dispute.

The group is not monitored, but you can write to visitingstudents@hum.ku.dk if you experience any form of cheating or suspicious/inappropriate behavior.

The Faculty of Humanities can only block users that show any suspicious behavior, but we cannot take any legal action. Therefore, we recommend contacting the police in case of fraud.

  • At UCPH we do not tolerate any form of harassment or offensive/inappropriate behavior, and therefore inappropriate or abusive behavior in the chat will not be tolerated!
  • This chatroom is regulated in accordance with the guidelines for offensive behavior of UCPH. You can read more about UCPH’s definition of and guidelines for offensive behavior
    • If you act inappropriately, offensively or harass anyone in the chat, you will either get a warning or be blocked/removed from the chat without further notice.
    • In case of gross violation of the guidelines, further consequences can be inaugurated

 

Recommendations:
We will, however, recommend that you meet the seller in person, so you can see the seller and the product before you pay. If you’re buying a bike, we also recommend checking that it’s not been reported stolen (you can do that on the Danish Police website: https://politi.dk/cykler-og-koeretoejer). We also recommend checking that you have received the payment before you send/give the product and to ONLY pay in cash or on MobilePay/PayPal or through direct bank transfers. NEVER give your card details to any type of link.

 

 

Sign up here to receive event updates and/or join our online flea market!

Join the HISE Event Team and make your university days memorable! 

By being part of our event team you're entering a close-knit social community. Here you're not just attending events; you're shaping them! In the event team our keyword is ‘hygge’. While you plan and arrange the semester’s activities for your peers, there will also be social events only for the event volunteers. Moreover, after the semester is done, you will get a certificate for your extra-curricular participation in the team to show your home-university.  
Sign up for the team is possible during the Orientation-days.  


Sign up for the corps is possible during the Orientation-days or  

Send us an email and become a volunteer at HISE, shaping and helping with events for international students!