CIB has 20 Student Chapters, of which 14 are known to be active in 2023. CIB Student Chapter at University of Pretoria, Nelson Mandela University, and University of Newcastle are the new members of this network. These three CIB Student Chapters were established in June 2023. For more details on the activities of any of CIB Student Chapters, please click on the relevant link below.

If any Student Chapters need to update their list of Committee members or any other information about their Chapter, please notify CIB Programme Manager sina.moradi@cibworld.org.

To confirm interest in establishing a NEW Student Chapter, please click here

A CIB Student Chapter may be a local, regional, national or even international organised group of students, provided that those students are enrolled at CIB Member universities and preferably have an identifiable common interest in the work of one or more CIB Commissions* or Priority Themes. Examples of different types of CIB Student Chapters envisaged by the current CIB guidelines include, but are not limited to:

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  • Chapters with a membership based on one CIB Member university: Full or Associate Membership
  • Chapters with a membership based on two or more CIB Member universities in the same country or region, with shared identifiable common interests (as described above) so as to be a regional or national Chapter
  • Chapters with an international membership, based on CIB Member universities anywhere in the world, related to a CIB Commission and operating under the responsibility of that Commission.

In this context a CIB Commission includes a Working Commission or a Task Group.

CIB University Members interested in forming a CIB Student Chapter may make a formal proposal to the CIB Programme Committee. Before doing that it may be helpful to consult Advice to Intending Student Chapters here .

The Guidelines for CIB Student Chapters can be downloaded below:

People looking for ideas for activities of Student Chapters may like to read this report, which presents the results of our survey of Student Chapters in spring 2020.

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