Community

Every KY member is a part of our community, and we all partake in building it. KY’s community sector is the biggest and brightest consisting of culture, new students, student wellbeing and clubs. This sector is also responsible of supporting and thanking our volunteers including clubs, project teams, subcommittees and tutors.

Wellbeing

Uni years are often described as the best years of our lives – and no wonder why! However, alongside all the gloriousness, everyone faces struggles from time to time. Supporting the Wellbeing of our members is a top priority for KY, and one of the main tasks of KY Board member Paula Malka and Association Coordinator Sanni Lappalainen, together with KY’s very own Sports and Wellbeing Committee. This fall, we are launching a new wellbeing program BeWell, that aims to create an open and transparent environment for KY members and make the discussion about difficult topics easier. Need someone to talk to? Check out our Wellbeing Tutors on ky.fi/wellbeing/ and feel free to contact them at any time! Or are you in need of a chat with peers that have gone through a similar experience than you have? Browse through different wellbeing-related themes on ky.fi/wellbeing/, pick a suitable one and join an anonymous chat session on Tukinet with us! And don’t forget to attend the Sports and Wellbeing Committee LiHy’s various events such as our Wellbeing Weeks and cake buffets! Besides feeling good, it is crucial that each of us feels safe and respected in our community. KY wants to provide a safe and equal environment for everyone, and has created a set of rules for the type of behavior we expect in the everyday KY life. Be sure to check out our renewed Code of Conduct on ky.fi!

Culture

KY aims to provide the best student experience in the world for our members. Our goal is that everyone feels welcomed in our community where our members can thrive. KY exists solely for – and because – of its members. For many reasons, KY is proud of its student culture and it truly is something you cannot compare to anything else. While all of KY’s amazing associations partake in creating one of the most diverse student cultures in the world, the cultural sector is here to treasure KY’s most beloved traditions by overseeing events from the Annual Ball to Wappu, from all the Kuntis parties to the traditional Lauluilta dinners. KY’s culture sector thrives on breaking the expectations of what is student culture to what it can be and making it a reality. The sector is run by KY Board member responsible for culture Topi Ronkainen and Culture Producer Topias Turppa. Another crucial part of KY’s culture sector is our amazing volunteers, especially our three subcommittees, KUJ, NESU-KY and KY-Sub (page 30), and the amazing Cultural Committee. Each year, over a hundred new mursus join our subcommittees and end up with amazing experiences and friendships to last a lifetime. As for the Cultural Committee, KUVA (page 32), it is the glorious group of volunteers in the heart of the KY behind many of the traditional KY events. In addition to overseeing spectacular events, the cultural sector also works towards building a stronger Aalto community and, hence, communicates with other student associations’ cultural actors on a regular basis.

New Students

Warmly welcoming the new Bachelor’s, Master’s and Exchange students to KY and Aalto is a crucial part of building the KY community and passing the traditions on to the new generations of KY members. The sector ensures that your student life gets a smooth start by designating a trained tutor for you, organizing orientation week and cooperating with the School of Business. Being a mursu (a new student) or an exchange student at KY is an experience of a lifetime that can’t be replicated anywhere else. KY takes a lot of pride in its mursu upbringing, upholding some of the oldest traditions in Finnish student culture. The sector is run by Topi Ronkainen, KY Board member responsible for new students, and Anna Song, the Tutor coordinator at the School of Business and chair of the Tutor Committee (page 34). The sector has the sole goal of enabling everyone’s start at the School of Business and KY to be as effortless as possible. This is done together with all KY members from KY Office members to association volunteers.

Clubs

Around 60 associations call KY home, and of these associations many are clubs. KY’s association coordinator Sanni Lappalainen and the KY Board member responsible for clubs, Paula Malka, ensure that all clubs get as much support and guidance as they need. KY’s clubs offer almost everything you could imagine, and play a key role in producing KY’s culture. Anything from golf to wine tasting, skiing to debating… if you can come up with it, we most likely have a club for it! However, if you feel like something is missing, or you just have an amazing new idea you want to try out, you are more than welcome to either start a project or found a club of your own! Just contact Sanni and she will respond to any questions you might come up with!