General Assembly of SYL 17.-18.11.

Highest decision-making body of the National Union of the University Students in Finland (SYL) is the General Assembly. It meets once a year in November. SYL members – student unions – elect each one’s own delegation to decide on the union’s economy in the coming year as well as to elect the board for next year.

How many members of the delegation and how many votes it has depends on how many members the student union has. ISYY has 15 votes in the GA.

The General Assembly will be held at Tampere University on 17–18 November. The GA is typically streamed to SYL's YouTube-channel @sylvideot.

SYKETTÄ Joensuu

SYKETTÄ includes sport services for the students and staff members at the University of Eastern Finland and Karelia University of Applied Sciences. You can see the prices for each sticker on the SYKETTÄ website and you can buy your sticker online or from the ISYY office. Remember to create a user account with your uef email before you try to buy a sticker or enroll to classes. 

Youtube: SYKETTÄ Sports   |   Instagram: @syketta_jns   |   Facebook: Sykettä

For the workshop you need: a water bottle, comfortable training clothes, dance/sport shoes or socks. There is a light wooden floor in Mehtimäkihalli, so black-soled shoes are prohibited. 

You don't need your own partner of dance experience for the workshops. The instructions are in both English and Finnish. Teaching methods are gender-neutral. Once a week we go through four dances. You may join one session or all four of them. 

Historical dances are social court dances from the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Empire eras. The information about them is based on the notebooks of dance masters, and they have been reconstructed from historical sources, including the music. Nowadays, new dances based on historical choreographies and modern music are also created. 

Registration via the SYKETTÄ calendar 

Course participants are welcome to the Academic History Ball of the University of Eastern Finland on Saturday 18 November 2023 in the ballroom of Art Museum Onni. All the dances of the course are danced at the ball. Click here for more information about the Autumn Ball and for contact information.

FSHS - Ability to Study

Ability to study means a student’s ability to work, and it’s a combination of several interconnected factors. Personal resources, study skills, teaching and counselling, and a supportive study environment all have significant impacts on how well a student performs. Strengths in one or more areas may help to maintain a student’s ability to study even when there are problems in other areas.

Study progress can be improved by addressing all the different aspects of ability to study. This is the responsibility of all parties in the study community, including student healthcare, the university and student organisations – and the students themselves!

The model for ability to study shown above can promote cooperation between different parties and at the same time support and help students progress through their studies. It can also help students to understand the different aspects of their ability to study.

Check out the details of the Ability to Study -model from the FSHS website:

Participate in the survey:  Online exams and remote monitoring

Dear Teacher or Student, please answer the survey, and influence the procurement of proctoring software for online exams!

Do you think it should be possible to monitor remotely conducted online exams more closely? Would there be users for this kind of software in the University of Eastern Finland?
What kind of features should the software have?

The mapping of the procurement of remote monitoring software, aka proctoring software, for online exams continues. Now we are investigating UEF teachers' and students’ opinions and views on the matter: whether there is a need for procurement, how much use the software would have and what kind of features should be found in it.  

The survey was created based on the responses to an online exam-related survey conducted earlier in the autumn. This survey is only aimed at the staff and students of the University of Eastern Finland, so that we can get a better idea of what kind of needs and ideas exist in our organization in particular. More information available on the attachment.

Answer the survey no later than 30.11.2023 and influence future exam practices! All responses are anonymous.

Sustainability studies network is formed by University of Helsinki, University of Eastern
Finland, University of Jyväskylä, University of Lapland, University of Oulu, University of Turku
and LAB University of Applied Sciences. The network offers courses related to sustainability
and environment. The courses are open for all degree, doctoral and exchange students of the
member higher education institutions.

You can freely choose a course or courses based on your own interest from the course
selection. Most courses are either online or remote teaching.

You can study courses through the network without including them in your major or minor
subject studies. If you want to include the courses in your degree, you should contact your
supervisor at their home higher education institution.

The course selection can be found here.

UEF is looking for new representatives for the YUFE Student Forum! 

UEF is now looking for two degree students to join the YUFE Student Forum, especially one bachelor’s and one master’s level student to continue the work of previous representatives. As a YUFE Student Forum member, you will actively work as part of the international YUFE Student Forum and one or more of the YUFE working groups.

This is a voluntary non-paid opportunity. However, all expenses due to YUFE (e.g., travel costs) will be compensated. We hope the new representatives can start already before the end of 2023.

Send us your application, including your CV and a motivation letter (max. 1 page), in English by 15th November 2023 using the subject line “YUFE Student Forum Application” to katinka.kayhko@uef.fi. 

For more information about YUFE, please visit Kamu, check the YUFE website or contact Katinka Käyhkö, Head of International Planning and Development. 

When enrolling as a player please note, that the maximum number of players in the team is 15 players + 2 goalies. If there are more enrollments than spots in the team, the final team lineup is decided by the teams captain.

Players information can be confirmed via Elite Prospects.

To be able to play in Winter Classic, you need to have your own equipment or be able to borrow equipment from somebody.  Example list of equipments: helmet (+ visor or net), neck guard, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, pants, knee pads, skates and stick.

Players are not insured by the organizator. Event is organized by ISYY, ISYY Sports Club Joensuu and SYKETTÄ Joensuu.

Enroll as a player to UEF team

Enroll to Winter Classic 2024 team

Ask more:
Service Planner
+358 44 576 8418
vapaa-aika@isyy.fi

Event Calendar

Week 46

Tue 14.11. CANCELLED Coffee & Friends from 4.30 to 6.30 pm in the AU110 fireplace room
Tue 14.11. ESN Joensuu Club meeting from 4 pm to 6 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Tue 14.11. Luomio -literary arts Club meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Wed 15.11. JOOJAKU club meeting from 4pm to 8pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Thu 16.11. Joensuu Board Gamers club meeting from 4 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Fri 17.11. Sustainable lifestyle UEF: Swap your clothes from 1.30 to 5.00 pm in M110 in Metria building
Fri 17.11. ISYY Chess Club - Joensuu Club meeting from 4 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)

Week 47

Mon 20.11. ISYY Club MtG Guild meeting at 3 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Tue 21.11. Coffee & Friends from 4.30 to 6.30 pm in the AU110 fireplace room
Tue 21.11. ESN Joensuu Club meeting from 4 pm to 6 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Tue 21.11. Luomio -literary arts Club meeting from 6 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Wed 22.11. JOOJAKU club meeting from 4pm to 8pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Thu 23.11. Joensuu Board Gamers club meeting from 4 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)
Fri 24.11. ISYY Chess Club - Joensuu Club meeting from 4 pm to 8 pm in Haltia meeting room (Yliopistokatu 7)

Available grants for students of UEF and UEF's Open positions

There is a listing of grants availbale for students of the University of Eastern Finland at UEF's webpage.

You'll find a list of Open Positions at UEF HERE.

Unleash your creativity and advance sustainability in the Hack Me Up Ideation Competition! The top ideas will be rewarded - 1st prize is 1,000 euros!

In Hack Me Up Ideation Competition you create solution drafts for businesses' sustainability challenges. You can register individually or form a team of 2-5 members.

Hack Me Up Ideation Competition is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 24-25, 2023, at Joensuu Science Park. The registration period ends on Friday, November 17, at 3:00 PM.

Check out the sustainability challenges and register for the competition!

Use Turnitin Draft Coach for assistance during the writing phase of your assignment

Turnitin Draft Coach is a tool that helps writers during the writing phase. The Draft Coach service operates within Word Online, and you'll need to log in using your UEF credentials. You can find instructions for enabling Draft Coach in the Turnitin plagiarism detection system course (course key for the course is "turnitin"). With Draft Coach, you can check both the originality of your text and the references within the text and sources. In addition, Draft Coach includes an English language proofreading tool.

Draft Coach provides the familiar originality report found in Turnitin. Draft Coach identifies similarities in the text from extensive databases, such as the internet, student papers, and publications. Draft Coach does not report or archive work anywhere. It is designed to assist students in addressing any potential issues before submitting their assignments. You can use Draft Coach instead of the assignment check in the Student Turnitin course in Moodle.

Information about Weekly Feed

This is an issue of Weekly Feed at Joensuu campus. Weekly Feed is the English language newsletter of the Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY). You are receiving this letter on your email because you are a member of ISYY and are studying at Joensuu campus or because you have joined the mailing list yourself. 

Weekly Feed provides you with current information on matters related to the Student Union, UEF or other organisations close to students, such as FSHS. In addition, the newsletter provides you with information on events taking place at campus or the campus city.

Weekly Feed is published on Tuesdays during the academic year, with the exception of holidays and a few other days. If you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore, you can unsubscribe the letter via the link (Click here to unsubscribe) located on the bottom of the letter. 

You will find more information on ISYY's newsletters  and privacy protection on ISYY's website.

Advertise your event in ISYY's newsletter Weekly Feed

If you would like to have something featured in the Weekly Feed, please send a short (max. 500 characters including spaces), informative advertisement of the event/activity in English to tiedotus@isyy.fi.

Please include at least the following information: date, time, place, admission fee and the event website/facebook page and a short description of the event. If you want to include pictures, the optimal size is 270 x 270 px.