GU is a part of the Swedish Green party, and membership in GU automatically includes membership in the Green Party for all members not turning 26 that year.

Members of GU may, for example, hold elected any elected position within the Green Party where there is no legally binding age limit, with the same principles applying to the Green Students.

This was adopted at 2005 annual general meeting in Gothenburg and symbolised the impact humans have on the earth during their lifetime, and the importance of that impact being as easy to wash away as a footprint on a beach is by waves.

[8] GU was founded at a conference in Sollentunaholms slott outside Stockholm on 28−30 November 1986.

[9] During the period of 1990−92, GU was a federation of autonomous local units but in 1992, it was again reconstructed as a national organisation.