Confidential contact persons

Wed, 22 Oct 2025

written by Jelmer van Bruggen

It's that time of the year again, the board is looking for a new confidant and we think that you might be the perfect candidate. At this point you might be asking yourself “But what is a confidant exactly and what do they do?”. Well, we are glad you asked. This blog post will tell you exactly what you can expect from them and how they operate in our association.

Confidants serve as first contact for members encountering any issues in situations they might find themselves in during CognAC events. Consequently, Radboud trains confidants to listen and carefully consider the things they are being told. With this information, confidants are there to refer you to the appropriate contact person that the university offers. So do keep in mind that confidants aren't trained to substantively help you with the issue you are running into, rather, they help you find the correct person to follow up with.

In our association, confidants rotate every single year. We have 2 confidants and every year one of them gets replaced by a new person. This way the new confidant can always get help from a more experienced one.

Are you interested in potentially being a confidant and helping your fellow CognAC members out? Send your application to education@svcognac.nl. Applications are open until November 14th. Should you need to speak to the current confidant, check out this page.