Grand opening of café in the MIT Building
On Monday 18 January, the café Mitum, run by Umeĺ Student Union of Science and Technology (NTK), holds its grand opening. Moving the café to the central open atrium area is a first step for the new interactive focus environment planned for completion at the end of the spring. "This café is the only student run café on campus: by students, for students," declares Olov Tingström, Chairman of the Student Union Board at NTK. Kaféet är idag det enda studentdrivna pĺ campus: Av studenter för studenter, berättar Olov Tingström, kĺrordförande, NTK. The new focus environment will open up space at the main entrance of the MIT Building where the café was previously situated. This will make up one of the new university's interactive focus environments focusing on mathematics, statistics and IT - all of which are areas that unite most programmes and research in the building as well as overlaps several faculties. "The area will become a general meeting place for the entire building where students, researchers and other internal and external partners can meet and take part in joint activities," says Mats Johansson, of the MIT Building environment.
