Sports Afternoon After Party at Bar Nousu & Bar Lasku 5th October

This autumns sports afternoon is held 5th October 2022. The afternoon is free from lectures from 12.15 pm onwards and there is a lot of different sport activities organised by SYKETTÄ Sport Services. Sports Afternoon programme in Kuopio can be found here.

After the whole afternoon of sport activities, it is good time to go to the legendary Sports Afternoon After Party in Bar Nousu & Lasku (Kauppakatu 18)! You can also play Beer Pong during the evening. The doors will be open at 9 pm. Free entry. NB! The cloakroom fee must be paid if you want to leave something there.

The Sports Afternoon After Party is organised by the Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY). 

Join Tour de Itä-Suomi -cycling event next week!

Tour de Itä-Suomi is a cycling event in Joensuu and Kuopio, which is held for the second time this autumn. We offer two routes to choose from: 50 km and 100 km. Tour de Itä-Suomi is arranged in Kuopio on Saturday 8.10. and in Joensuu on Sunday 9.10.

Tour de Itä-Suomi is NOT a competition. Speed is not important, finishing the route at your own pace is! Shorter routes follow mainly bicycle or bicycle and pedestrian routes. On the full route over half of the distance is cycled on the edge of the road.

Welcome to Tour, enroll via Kide.app! More information via the link below.

What is the Representative Council?

• The highest decision-making-body in our Student Union, which decides e.g. about the membership fee, action plan and budget of ISYY.
• The Representative Council consists of 39 students chosen by student elections. Elections are organised every other year, next time in autumn 2023.
• Every ISYY member has a right to vote and become a candidate in the Representative Council Elections!

Exceptions to ISYY office's opening hours

• Because of the sports afternoon, ISYY offices are closed on Wednesday 5th of October 2022
• ISYY offices are closed from 17th to 21st of October (week 42)

Greetings from the Coordinator

Hello again!
Next week is the Wellbeing Week, and it is one of the biggest projects for me this fall. During the week, there is a diverse program on both campuses and online. Just reminding you that 6.10. movie nights are organized in both cities, where participation is free of charge. You can find more information about them, schedules and the whole week's program on ISYY's website. I wish you a wonderful Wellbeing Week in advance!
-Riina

Problems with veryfying your SYKETTÄ account?

If you have problems with the registration or you couldn't verify your email for the SYKETTÄ account or you didn’t get the email verification link, please contact  liikuntasuunnittelija.kuopio@isyy.fi.

Return your appro passport and get your overall badge

• You can return your appro passport to the ISYY office, to Cafe SAVOTTA or Bar&Cafe SAVOTTA till the end of September. Please check the opening hours of the office you want to return the passport to!
• Remember that you have to have the valid SYKETTÄ sticker now if you want to use the SYKETTÄ Sports Services. You can read more info about the different sticker and where to buy them here.
   

Physical activity counseling

Physical activity counseling. Do you feel you are not getting enough exercise for your health and well-being? Would you like to promote your own health and well-being through physical activity? Do you want more physical activity in your daily life, but don’t know where and how to start? Do you need professional support on your journey towards a more active lifestyle?
 

More tips and information on

• Instagram @syketta_kpo
• Facebook-page SYKETTÄ – Kuopion korkeakoululiikunta  

Interested in volunteering work?

Volunteering work is a great opportunity to expand your competencies and acquire useful skills for working life.

In Kuopio you can do volunteering work for refugees and migrants at Kompassi. If you can’t find anything suitable for you or you have another organization you’d like to volunteer for, you can contact YUFE Volunteering coordinator Marko Pietilä marko.pietilä@uef.fi.
 

Apply to YUFE Challenge Teams

The YUFE Challenge Teams aim to develop creative thinking through an intensive teamwork process to solve real social, scientific and technological challenges by providing a novel and innovative solution with a collaborative, multidisciplinary and multicultural approach.

The benefits and value proposition of the YUFE Challenge Teams for the students involved are:
stimulated by new learning experiences and soft skills training for their future, based on teamwork problems, they can solve a real challenge and acquire demanding professional competencies. As an UEF student, you can gain credits from participating the YUFE Challenge Teams.

For more information, please click here and contact Marko Pietilä marko.pietila@uef.fi and Mari Argillander, mari.argillander@uef.fi

• For how long: 9 weeks, approximately 60 hours
• Application period from 12 September 12 until 6 October 2022
   

Would you like to participate in the first YUFETHON of our university?

• What is it? It is an online event where participants will meet for two days (20h) to work intensively on a solution to a real problem. Participants will work in small groups in a unique environment that encourages creative thinking. Would you dare to participate in our First Edition? As an UEF student, you can gain credits from participating the YUFE Challenge Teams. For more information, please contact Marko Pietilä marko.pietila@uef.fi and Mari Argillander, mari.argillander@uef.fi
• When will it take place? 7-8 October, from 10 am to 18 pm
• When can I register? From 12 September to 6 October register here

For more information, please click here.

Welcome to respond to a survey!

The aim of the survey is to obtain diverse information on students’ experiences and views on learning and studying in higher education. We hope that every higher education student will respond to the survey based on their own experiences of studying. Everyone’s answer is important. The deadline for responding is 7.10.2022. Responding takes around 20-25 minutes.

The survey is here.

The survey is part of the Evaluation of the state and reform of higher education pedagogy, which is implemented by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC). Some of the answers may be used in the Evaluation of Government’s key projects for higher education 2017–2022. Once the evaluation has been completed, the responses will be archived, and they can be handed over for research use. The answers that will be archived will be anonymised. The results of the survey will be reported in a way that makes it impossible to identify individual respondents.

For more information on the evaluation, visit the project website. Thank you for participating in the evaluation!

More information: The 4€ discount tickets can be purchased at the Kuopio Music Centre Ticket sales only on the day of the concert (open Mon-Fri 3-5 pm or until the beginning of the performance and on weekend 1 hour before the performance). The discount price is only valid if there are still tickets left. To access the discount price, a valid student card has to be presented when purchasing the ticket.

Pirates of the Baltic Sea -cruise (14.-16.11.)

AHOY ye landlubberrr! Time to step aboard and find your place amongst the seadogs! We are happy to welcome you onboard the Pirates of the Baltic Sea! The biggest and baddest cruise on the Baltic Sea is calling you to hoist the masts and sail from Helsinki to Stockholm!

Experience two nights full of fun and partying with fellow international students in the beautiful archipelago and one day of visiting Stockholm. International students from all over the world are joining the cruise! Ticket sales are open! Read more from Facebook & get your tickets from Timetravels website.

Pirates of the Baltic Sea is the biannual national event of ESN Finland. Over 1000 international students from all over Finland, Estonia and Latvia get on board our pirate ship and sail across to Baltic Sea to visit the beautiful city of Stockholm, Sweden.

Wanna cross a visit to Lapland off your bucket list?

Join ESN Kuopio and ISYY as we are going far beyond the Arctic Circle to experience the real Finnish winter in the northernmost ski resort of Europe in Saariselkä, the place which has ski slopes open sometimes even in June! The trip is organised from Thu 24.11.2022 till Tue 29.11.2022.

Visit the real Santa in the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, take selfies with the reindeers at a farm hosted by Sami people, enjoy the beautiful Arctic landscape and if you are lucky, the mesmerizing Northern lights! There is also a wide range of winter sports you can try – everything from adventurous snowshoeing and skiing to husky sledding, and even swimming in the Arctic Ocean. The group will be accommodated in atmospheric cottages on the slope of the Kaunispää-mountain, which is a perfect place for spotting the Aurora Borealis!

Where can you sign up?

The sign up will begin on Thursday 1 September at 12 pm on Timetravels' website! Find more information and sign up via the link in the blue box below.

The price of the trip starts from 339 €. What is included in the price:

• A round trip by bus to Rovaniemi & Saariselkä
• Accommodation in 3-14 person cabins with sauna for 4 nights
• Visit of the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi
• Kemi SnowCastle visit
• Tour guide services in the destination

For questions and other information contact Timetravels Customer service for assistance via Helpdesk or customerservice@timetravels.fi or via phone +358 10 421 8990, during office hours Mon-Fri 10.00-16.00. Cost of the phone call is 0,09 €/call + 0,17 €/min + international call charge (for calls outside Finland).

UEF students, develop your study and working-life skills in online trainings!

“Keys to Well-being – 5 Steps towards Future Work Skills” online trainings are designed to improve self-management skills, which are increasingly important in the changing world of work and study. Transformation of work requires new skills and competences: time and self-management skills, resilience and adaptability, collaboration skills, new ways of thinking, taking care of well-being and finding meaning in our work.

The online trainings consist of short videos as well as in-depth trainings. The trainings can be accessed flexibly at any time that suits you. They are free of charge to UEF staff and students, and they are available until January 31, 2023. The trainings can be accessed by logging into Moodle with your UEF-account: Keys to Wellbeing – 5 Steps towards Future Work Skills.

The shortest way to work - Pondi

Pondi is a new Savilahti talent pond implemented by KPY and Osuma Henkilöstöpalvelut, where the growing Savilahti area is at the heart with thousands of students and jobs. Pondi connects talents and jobs easily, interestingly and flexibly.

Talent, get to know the employers in the area extensively before you go after your dream job. Pondi enables employments of different lengths so that you can get to know different employers or work tasks already during your studies. You will get good employer contacts and diverse working life skills even before you are ready to commit to a longer-term employment relationship.

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.

Green Alley Award: Circular Economy Startups can win 25,000€!

The Green Alley Award is Europe’s first startup prize specifically for the circular economy. It fosters and promotes ground breaking digital circular economy solutions, recycling solutions or ideas for waste prevention in order to recover valuable resources from waste. All circular economy startups based in Europe and just entering the market, starting to grow or even expanding into new European markets, are welcome to apply.

The annual prize was created in 2014 by Landbell Group and several strong partners have since come on board, among them Seedmatch, the German crowdfunding pioneer and Positive News, a media organization that focuses on high-quality journalism about the good things that are happening.

This year’s most convincing candidates will be invited to the finals in Berlin with great networking and learning opportunities for all. In workshops they will meet European circular economy experts and startup mentors offering valuable advice as well as the opportunity to gain new business contacts. In the evening all finalists will present their business ideas in a live pitch to an international audience. An expert jury will then select the winner of the Green Alley Award 2023, who will be rewarded with a cash prize of € 25,000. Startups can apply by 21 November 2022.

Student associations at UEF

Student associations are independent, subject-specific associations. They gather together students who study the same subject, which allows for them to get to know their peers and work together in the field of student advocacy. It's a great way to meet new people and attend a variety of activities and events with people studying the same subject as you!

Each Student association has their own overalls colour, they are listed in ISYY's student calendars! You can watch this Youtube video to learn more about the Finnish higher education overall tradition.  See the list below to find your own Student associations on Kuopio campus and check the contact information of each Student association from the 'Read more' link.

• Dentina ry - Dentistry students
• Fortis ry - Pharmacy students
• Hyeena ry - Students of environmental science and applied physics
• Kulti ry - Biomedicine students
• Kuopion lääketieteen opiskelijat KuoLO ry - Medical students
• Preemio ry - Business students
• Retikka ry - Nutrition students
• Serveri ry - Students of Computing
• Socius ry - Students of Social Sciences
• TERHO ry - Students in nursing science, health economics,  Health and Social Management Sciences, Health and Human Services Informatics and Health Promotion

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 description of the event/activity in English to either kv.kuopio@isyy.fi (Kuopio events) or kv.joensuu@isyy.fi (Joensuu events).

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

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 Kuopio 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 (Weekly Feed) and data protection on ISYY's website.