About Flow

Flow is a study association. This means that there is a focus on educational support for students. We provide discounts on books, summaries for our members, and the possibility to get and/or become a tutor. However, Flow does much more than just support students on an educational level. For example, there is a wide range of formal and informal activities that we organized each year.

Formal activities include the many company visits and workshop days. The activities give you a better idea of the work field and allow you to expand your professional network. An annual study trip is also organized, during which we visit foreign companies and universities, and discover new cultures and traditions.

In addition to the formal activities, Flow also frequently organizes social activities for the members of Flow. For example, every month there is a drink in Klein Café Van Horen Zeggen. There are also activities organized especially for freshmen or other students who want to get to know Flow. Furthermore, we regularly sport together, but also have beer tastings, or a city trip. Take a look at the homepage to see which activities are coming up!

Flow works hard to remain good and strong contacts with other study associations in Tilburg, and sister associations in other Dutch cities. In addition, Flow has strong ties with the faculty, the student members of the faculty council, the board of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, and the student parties in the university council.

We received a kind message from the very first board members of FLoW:

“We didn’t have FLoW five years ago. We sat together with about 15 freshmen and decided that something needed to happen. Not much later, our first board was established. Incredible how fast that happened. That was certainly not the case for everything that happened after that. We had to clean up the mess that previous associations had made. Sloppy paperwork didn’t make that work much easier. The trust of the faculty, the older students and the bank was very limited. But this time we hoped that everything would be different.

We worked very hard to make the name of FLoW more known, we gained trust, we tried to recruit new members and we gained some sponsors. To build something from scratch is very difficult.

Almost 5 years later, we not only look back to the creation of FLoW, we also look back at our very first moment of love together. We, the first chairman and secretary, also have our first lustrum. Maybe, the successful continuation of FLoW is linked to our relationship. That would be very symbolic and beautiful.

We often think back to our early years. Creating a study association, together with being a freshmen at the university and falling in love, is a tough combination. How did we manage to survive? We have no idea. Probably, by just working hard.

We are now both graduated. Degrees, memories and proudness is what we still have left from that period. Proud, because FLoW is still growing. Memories, because that is probably the most important period of our lives. At the 4th of December, we would like to propose a toast to five successful years of FLoW. But after our period at Tilburg University, a new adventure awaited us. And that adventure was called Barcelona. That’s the place where we live at the moment and where we try to convince the Spanish people that decent communication is crucial. And that’s not easy in a different language! A new chapter, just like FLoW was, five years ago.

We wish the current board the best, but just to be sure, we will stick together, just to preserve the symbolic meaning. And ehh.. board.. who knows what we could achieve together ;-)!

From Barcelona: Cheers to our first five years!

Roel Seegers & Gonneke Daris (Board of FLoW 2002-2003)”