The Student Activities Funding Committee (CAS) is appointed by the Executive Board of Wageningen University. CAS is charged by the Executive Board with the actual allocation of the funding of ‘material costs’* for socio-cultural activities by and/or for students of Wageningen University. Examples of such activities are theatre, cabaret and dance performances, forums, discussion evenings and readings.
CAS takes into account the provisions in or pursuant to the CAS-regulations (attached, dated 19 October 2006).
>> Download: Regulations Student Activities Funding Committee
* The CAS-funding may not be mixed up with the FOS-facility: FOS compensates the study delay of students being a board member or committee member of a student’s organisation. Different from the CAS-funding of material costs to be considered as ‘staff costs’.
The application for funding, including an estimated annual budget, is submitted to CAS before 1 October of the calendar year preceding the year for which funding is requested.
For further information and/or to obtain the necessary forms, the committee may be contacted by email: CAS@wur.nl.
The CAS can allocate funding to:
- organisations that provide activities to benefit the Wageningen student community;
- organisations that provide activities to benefit the Wageningen community.
CAS allocates funding to one-time activities or series of activities.
CAS does not allocate funding to activities concerning health care, student refectories, student sports activities and student housing, or to activities that fall within the study programme of Wageningen University.
The CAS-regulations describe:
- general criteria such as target-group, nature of activities, costs level & contribution participants and publicity,
- supplementary provisions for certain organisations: study associations and student fellowships and foundations and associations that have the aim of maintaining the specific links of students with their native region,
- supplementary provisions for certain types of activities: weekend activities/ excursions and five-year anniversary celebrations and public activities that are irrefutably characteristic of a certain native region.
The CAS-regulations also describe:
- non-fundable costs such as food & drink for certain activities, periodicals & annuals, costs for law notaries etc.
- general costs that qualify for funding such as
- fundable travel costs
- fundable costs of fees (honoraria) for speakers etc.
CAS has the authority to examine the complete bookkeeping and relevant records of every group or association to which it provides funding, to the extent that this - in the judgement of the CAS - concerns the activities to be funded.