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www.tokyo.fi TOKYO ry Aalto-yliopisto PL31000 00076 AALTO tokyo@tokyo.fi hallitus@tokyo.fi firstname.lastname@aalto.fi
Facebook: Add Sheryl Tokyo Arts as a friend, join the group Student Association TOKYO
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TOKYORY Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sheryltokyo PUBLISHER:
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture TOKYO ry
EDITOR:
TOKYO s Board
GRAPHIC DESIGN:
Jolanda Jokinen
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
4 WELCOME TO ARTS
20 STUDENT ADVOCACY
5 COMMUNITY
Student advocacy Hallopeds
TOKYOlove Sheryl TOKYO Arts TOKYOs Board Student Organizations My perfect first year Tokyo poppoo Freshmen point card Tutoring International affairs The alumni Aalto community
12 TOKYO SPACES, SERVICES AND BENEFITS TOKYO’s service point Membership Benefits Tokyo Lounge, Hub ja Space Kipsari Väre – are we going to move someday or what? Move Indoor air problems
Design calendar Torso 18 EVENTS
Poppoo-group Sheryl Arts ARTS Events OTA(rts)NIEMI Student Association TOKYO Instagram TOKYO International affairs 24 AYY 25 HOUSING 26 STUDENT INCOME 27 HEALTH AND WELL-BEING 28 SPORTS/ STUDENT CARD 29 TRANSPORTATION 30 MAPS TABLE OF CONTENTS
17 COMMUNICATIONS
22 SOCIAL MEDIA
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Welcome to ARTS, new student! And congratulations on your new place in the department of Film, Television and Scenography, Design, Architecture, Media or Art. Together we form an ARTS community of students, teachers and staff. TOKYO is every ARTS students’ association, and some of its most important tasks are taking care of student advocacy, and most importantly bringing together all the ARTS students from different fields of study. During the year TOKYO organizes events and other community fun for students such as the starting party of the academic year StartARTS 29.8, Finland’s biggers costume party and TOKYO’s annual party Arabia Maskerad and January’s most atmospheric sales, TOKYO Christmas Sales. TOKYO also enables students to organize their own events and other stravaganza (look up TOKYO Poppoo and grants). We want you to become a TOKYO-active! This Info-Torso is your guide to your first year in our school and it is meant to collect ALL the information you need. However, if after reading this leaflet you still have questions, don’t be afraid to send TOKYO a message or come chat us up in the corridors. TOKYO exists to help you! I want to wish you a brilliant first year in ARTS and above all great student life!
WELCOME
With TOKYO love, Elina Kuutti Chair-person of TOKYO board
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TOKYO Love What is TOKYO Love? In short, it is the love TOKYO feels towards ARTS and its’ students. Student advocacy and the well-being of our members and ARTS in general are the main purposes of TOKYO’s existence. TOKYO is a student organization that is more influential and has more resources the more it has members. By joining TOKYO you’ll be supporting the greater good for our school. TOKYO’s other important tasks include supporting and developing ARTS student culture: TOKYO’s activity should always look and smell like it’s members and students have the power to decide what TOKYO concentrates its’ time on. TOKYO’s goal is for ARTS students to be an active part in developing our Aalto community.
Sheryl Tokyo Arts
xoxo, Sheryl
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I’m Sheryl Tokyo Arts, the embodiment of student spirit of ARTS, a mysterious muse and the most glistening diamond of every party. I’ll sprint with my luscious locks behind me in my glamorous glitter outfit to each and every event! I also love to sweeten up your everyday lives in social media, whether i’m reminding you of upcoming events or posting photos of our most memorable times spent together. I would love to be your facebook friend, so that I can invite you to all the best parties and events, so please do add me, Sheryl Arts as your friend! #TOKYOLOVE gushes out of every photo on Instagram as well, like the fillings of a yummy Kipsari-burger (which is, by the way, my favourite food!), so be sure to hit the follow button on @ sheryltokyo’s page! I’ll even keep you updated by tweeting, like the cute chick i am, in twitter as @TOKYOry so that you’ll never miss anything important. Otherwise among other my hobbies include verbal achrobatics, and when I grow up I’m going to be a Doctor of Arts. See you in the fall!
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TOKYOs Board
Sanna Koskimäki Edunvalvonta/ Student Advocacy Art Education
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Mikko Latva-Käyrä Edunvalvonta/ varapuheenjohtaja/ Student advocacy, Information Networks
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Elias Broms Sheryl/Events, Design
Matilda Palmu Alumni/ Product and Spatial Design/ Working life
Liisa Vuorenpää Kampus vastaava/ Campus & Spaces, Interior Architecture
Anna Merikari Executive Manager
Sanni Ojala Tiedotus/Communications, Fashion, Clothing & Textile Design
Elina Kuutti Puheenjohtaja/ Chair-person, Art Education
Roope Laukkanen Relation/TOKYO Poppoo, Art Education
Tuike Rantanen Sheryl/Events, Design
Astria Excell Kansainvälisyys/New Students/International Affairs, Interior Architecture
Student Organizations In addition to TOKYO there are many other student associations that represent the students, arrange parties, trips, and other events. These associations also do student advocacy for their members. Most of the departments and schooling programs have their own associations. Joining a student association is a perfect way to get to know your fellow students from your own program. So don’t hesitate ask more about your own student organization from your tutors or from TOKYO’s service point! TOKYO NuDe KOOMA ry ETL ry GRRR ry AK
Students of Art, Design and Architecture Young Designers, (Department of Design) Art education students Department of Film, Television and Scenography Graphic design students Architecture Guild (Department of Architecture)
VISTA ry
Landscape architecture students
DADA ry
Media Lab students
VIMMA ry
Cumma and Vicca students
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My perfect first year
FIRST YEAR
My first year in ARTS past by like a racing card on the track. There was plenty of stuff to do: courses, events, projects and I also met people from every angle of life. I have had many opportunities and I also noticed that building social networks is very valuable part of studying and also part the university community. As a student it was really easy to jump in to the events as a volunteer. It is definetly worth it, because then you get the experience about organizing events, you meet new people and of course as an extra: you get to go to the event for free. During my first year I have been building Arabia Maskerade, which is TOKYO’s anniversary party. I have also been actively part of Otaniemi based student organization Aaltoes (Aalto Entrepreneurship Society). I have for example volunteered their events: Junction and FallUp and I also very able to sneak peak Slush last year. I also were able to plan new meeting rooms for Aaltoes’ new space during the spring as a part of my own study project. Right now I am in FallUp 2017 team planning workability of spaces and also working with the their new event, Dash, which is mostly targeted for designers, but everyone interested in design are warmly welcome. I work a lot with students who are from other departments and also outside ARTS. Building these contacts has created more depth for my own Aalto-spirit and I have also gained many pleasant experiences! When it comes to school, there is a load of work to be done, but there is still time for projects and events outside your everyday courses. Balance, new people and experiences are really important when studying intensively and for that we have great opportunities in our university. I wish that the same spirit and atmosphere continues next year when I work as a responsible tutor for design department with our splendid tutor team. My interest for being a tutor left from the hope to improve the tutoring system and make our transfer from Arabia to Otaniemi more pleasant and easy for new students.
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Ella Liuksiala,
Interior architecture student Responsible tutor (Design department)
TOKYO POPPOO POPPOO are TOKYO’s own volunteers, those active and lovely people, who want to organize events and help to make our studying environment better. As a member of POPPOO you get to be a part of an amazing community of people and help to organize events like Arabia Maskerad and TOKYO’s Christmas and Spring Sales! On top of that POPPOO organizes events like Drink and Draw in Kipsari and many other cool events around the campus. If parties, storytimes, midnight swims, napping together and being around great people are something you are interested in, join our group in Facebook and hit us with a message!
Freshmen point card Freshmen point card which was handed to you in orientation is an amazing way to get to know ARTS culture. Pass all the points in the cards and before you know it you have discover the secrets of the school and what’s the best - you have gained new contacts and unforgettable experiences. For those who have checked all of the boxes, there is a treasure chest in the end of the rainbow. Do you dare to find out what it is? Ask more from your tutor or from TOKYO’s service point!
Tutoring
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Tutors important task is to helph you and guide you through the orientation and also the whole first year in ARTS and in Finland in general. Tutors introduce Aalto and ARTS to you both ways: physically (the school’s labyrinth alike spaces) and mentally (people and culture). They are there for you throughout the year and you can ask them for help in all situations -if they don’t know the answer, at least they know where you can find it. TOKYO is working together with tutors. The great start to the school year is StartArts Party on Tuesday, August 29 and unforgettable Freshman party in September. Those you don’t want to miss!
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International affairs Internationality is very important to TOKYO and that’s why we have a special seat in our board for taking care of our international sweethearts. TOKYO’s International affairs arranges for example a Lapland trip once a year and also other events like international food fair event and berry and mushroom blocking in Autumn. TOKYO International affairs Facebook group is the best channel to keep up with all of these events, also if you are finnish speaker, but yarn to reach out to the world!
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The alumni
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You are now part of the Aalto-community but did you know that after graduation you can still be part of that community as an alumni? Join Aalto University’s alumni network AlumniNET. You can do the registration for being an alumni already after your bachelor degree at the address alumninet.aalto.fi (https:// alumninet.aalto.fi). Being part of the alumni network you get updates of what’s going on in your University, you get invitations to different events and you can also make an impact to your University’s development. You also benefit from alumni network when you are a student. As a master student you can apply for Aalto University’s Mentoring programme. From the programme you can get versatile coaching for your career path and support from an experienced alumni. In the Career Cafe -events you will hear interesting stories from alumnis’ career paths and in the working life interview you get a chance to talk with alumni from your department.. TOKYO is also involved with alumni activities and one of the TOKYO board’s responsibilities is alumni relationships & working life.
Aalto Community Aalto university is a fairly young university. It was established in 2010 when University of Art and Design Helsinki, Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki School of Economics were united into one university. Aalto University has six different schools: The best of them, School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS), School of Business (BIZ), School of Science (SCI), School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM), School of Engineering (ENG) and School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC). There are 15 000 students in Aalto who study in over 100 different degree programmes. Students of different fields have different traditions and student cultures that you hopefully have a chance to explore during your studies. You can (and should!) get to know students from other fields in events or perhaps through AYY’s hobby clubs. The time you spend at university is said to be the best time of your life, better spend it in good company!
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TOKYO’s service point TOKYO’s service point is located alongside AYY’s service point next to the ARTS student services (LES), at the middle part (entrance C) of ARTS’ building in Arabia, at 5th floor room 564. There you can get advice and information on study related issues, become a member of TOKYO, get the member stickers on your student card, get the newest calendar and and take the insurance for accidents. The service point is open from 12 to 14 on Mondays and Fridays and 12—15 from Tuesday to Thursday.
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Membership Benefits
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The greatest of TOKYOs membership benefits is love. It may sound a bit cheesy, but still it’s true. Student advocacy and the well-being of our members are the main purposes of TOKYOs existence. In addition to the love, TOKYO offers many materialistic delights such as the right to use TOKYO’s spaces, TOKYO’s design calendar, amazingly cheap insurance for accidents, TORSO magazines, discounts in art museums and special art shops, TOKYO’s grants and project allowances and other great things! In addition to love things you can get many different member benefits with TOKYOs shiny sticker, which you will get from TOKYOs service point as TOKYOs member. See the full list in www.tokyo.fi
TOKYO’s members have three spaces to use in the Arabia and Otaniemi campuses: TOKYO Lounge, TOKYO Hub ja TOKYO Space. TOKYO Lounge TOKYO Lounge is located next to our restaurant Kipsari, at the basement floor of Arabia Campus. There you can find TOKYO’s board and other active students having meetings or just hanging out. Feel free to enter whenever Lounge’s doors are open, because when it comes to TOKYOs culture, board games or our pin machine this is the best place to be.
TOKYO Hub TOKYO Hub is a common work-, hangaroundand riff raffing space for each and everyone of TOKYOs members. It’s located on the same cellar floor with Kipsari and Lounge and you can step in whenever you feel like, except if the space is reserved by someone else. The space can be used for either meetings, parties or board game nights, whatever you come up with!
TOKYO Space TOKYO’s newest space can be found in Otaniemi in Otakaari 1 Y-wing next to Student Hub (room Y139). Space is open for all TOKYO members for coffee breaks, studying, hanging out or having a meeting. You can also organize events or other fun things in TOKYO Space, just contact TOKYO’s board! 13
Kipsari Kipsari is an ecologic and vegetarian student restaurant, café and a bar, owned by TOKYO. Kipsari favors vegan food, Fair Trade, local food and organic products. The nutritious menu serves options for every taste. Besides warm lunch, you can find salads, soups and huge sandwiches. After school Kipsari offers you cold beverages, funky board games, good music and magazines. One could say that the student culture of ARTS is born and lives in Kipsari. Eating in Kipsari is like putting money in your own pocket: Kipsari is owned (via TOKYO) by ARTS students! With the proceeds from Kipsari we are supporting students’ artistic projects; If you are a TOKYO member, you can apply for I love Kipsari -grant again in autumn 2017! From this autumn there will be two Kipsaris, one in the Arabia campus and one in Otaniemi in Otakaari 7.
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Like Kipsari on facebook.com/kipsari, and you’ll get the menu and the latest news right away!
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Väre – are we going to move someday or what? The whole Aalto University will be located in Otaniemi Campus soon, where the new ARTS building Väre is currently being built. It is designed by Verstas Architects, and it’s going to become the heart of the new campus. Idea for Väre is to be base camp for student of ARTS and open for all the other Aalto people to meet and work together. Designing is proceeding and TOKYO collaborates with the school to ensure that the new building will be the best possible for ARTS students. The moving in to the new building will be in autumn 2018. The 1. and the 2. year bachelor students lectures are going to be held mainly in the Undergraduate Centre (Otakaari 1, X-wing), building next to the Väre. Most of our workshops are in the Väre, as well as our own restaurant Kipsari. There’s also going to be the Aalto University metro station next to the Väre building. To enrich the Otaniemi area, many shops and restaurants will be located in the metro station.
We are getting ready mentally and physically for the big move that is going to happen in 2018 autumn. Department of Architecture, Film, Television and Scenography and part of Art and Media except Photography are already located in Otaniemi. Department of Design, Art and of course Photography are going to stay at Arabia till the last days. We are going to live in the middle of renovation in Arabia and its going to bring some minor challenges like limited permissions to the floors and elevators but before we even know, new dazzling premises are waiting for us. We are also going to share Arabia campus with students of Metropolia next year. Best possible places to get to know our fellow student friends are in the wood and the metal workshops.
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Indoor air problems
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Feeling dizzy… Eyes hurt… Skin rash... If you feel like the indoor air is giving you trouble: Tell which rooms or floors are giving you symptoms to sisailma@list.aalto.fi Call FSHS (046 710 1027, yths.fi/en), where you can get a phone appointment to Johanna Valve who is attending ARTS indoor air problems. If needed, you can ask for special arrangement considering indoor air problems from Pulmu Föhr-Siltavuori (pulmu.fohr-siltavuori@aalto.fi). For this, you will need a medical certificate from a doctor. Remember to take breaks during working, stretch and go get some fresh air outside as well. Also, take care you eat often enough and drink water so your blood sugar won’t drop too low during the day.
TORSO TORSO is an independent magazine working under TOKYO and which editorial staff is picked each year from Aalto ARTS students. We are designers, illustrators, architects, rebels, art educators and adventurers. TORSO is free art publication, so it’s content, form and visual look changes with the editorial team. If you want experience from photography, writing, layout design or illustration, join us and come make TORSO a publication which looks like you!
Design calendar
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TOKYO julkaisee vuosittain jäsenilleen upean design-kalenterin. Kalenterin suunnittelija valitaan ARTSin opiskelijoiden keskuudesta kilpailulla, jonka raati koostuu graafisen alan asiantuntijoista ja opiskelijoista. Joka vuosi erilainen ja yllättävä kalenteri ilahduttaa TOKYOn jäseniä ja on yksi suosituimmista jäseneduistamme. Saat sen jäsenenä omaksesi TOKYOn palvelupisteeltä.
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Events Summer picnic 10.8. Tutors will lead you to sunny Suomenlinna, where you have a perfect chance to get to know your new course mates. Join the fun and get your first touch of the ARTS before school starts!
Orientation picnic29.8 After orientation’s second day, before taking off to Start ARTS! –party, orientation picnic is held in Otaniemi, Alvar’s square. Tutors will lead your way to the place after other program ends. See you there!
Start ARTS! 29.8
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Start ARTS! Is party organized by TOKYO and tutors. It is held at restaurant ship Wäiski (Hakaniemi). This is the best opportunity to start your year with glitter and sparkles. At the ship there are different places to just have interesting conversation or party away at the club! Also the theme for Aabia Maskerade is announced, don’t miss it!
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Otasuunnistus 6.9 (and 7.9) Otasuunnistus is Otaniemi-orientation organized by FTMK (Teekkari freshmen committee). Also ARTS associations will have check points on the 6th so jump in to this traditional teekkari event and see which team is the best! Otasuunnistus is a great way to get to know Otaniemi campus and all of it’s secrets!
Aalto party! 8.9 Aalto University wide opening ceremony for new semester, that starts at 12, takes over whole Otaniemi campus and ends at Otahalli, where after party is held. The grand opening includes food trucks, music and much fun!
Freshmen party 22.9 Also known as Fuksiaiset. Held in Arabia campus, this is event where students go around campus and clear checkpoints each organized by ARTS associations. Be ready to unleash the secrets of Arabia campus, one last time!
Foliage camp, 27.9 1.10 Foliage camp is TOKYO’s incredible international trip to Lapland. We take off on Wednesday evening and arrive late Sunday night. This trip is the most unforgettable experience of Norther Finland you can have including reindeers, foliage and the magical Lapland you always dreamed of!
Restart ARTS! 12.1 After spending half a year in ARTS, you already know all the tricks for your all department, so why not to learn some new ones? Restart ARTS! is whole ARTS wide party which has all the aspects of a great event: new people, good music and chance to mingle with other department students. Ask more from your tutor or TOKYO’s service point!
Arabia Maskerad, 28.1 date to be confirmed TOKYO’s annual anniversary party and Finland’s biggest maskerade is held in the end of the year. This party showcases the most incredible costumes and the best one will be rewarded at the Maskerad. Theme changes every year and it is announced in Start ARTS! At Wäiski. Be there!
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Aalto community holds a lot more interesting events, which we encourage highly to take part in! For example Aalto sitsit is an unforgettable experience of famous sitsi-culture and are held twice a year. MOSAIC offers world dinner and language cafe’s, AAVA showcases some of the most perfect events throughout the whole Aalto. Be sure to follow TOKYO’s Facebook page and International affairs page to be informed of these events in time.
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Student advocacy, is something that you can eat? Welcome to the university community! Things are a little bit different in university when compared to school: students are equal members of the community with the professors and other university staff. Students are not only passive customers for the teaching, but active learners and involved in developing teaching. Programmes and courses are developed in collaboration with the school and the university. A big part of TOKYO’s activities revolve around student advocacy. We take care of students interests in Aalto ARTS, in Aalto University and also on the national level. Advocacy work happens in formal and unformal meetings with the school staff, and on national level in collaboration with other students of art and design and with different trade organizations. Remember to give course feedback! Quality of university teaching is evaluated and teaching is developed based on that feedback. It is really important that you fill in those feedback forms when you get them at the end of the course.
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What should I do when things go wrong?
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If you face unfair treatment, there are problems in course arrangements or there’s something that you think need to be fixed in the teaching, you should do something about it! Usually best way to approach this is to discuss about the issue with the teacher. If that doesn’t help, you should contact student advocacy people in subject associations or in TOKYO or hallopeds. Usually they know how to help, but if they can’t, you can contact AYY’s student advocacy specialists.
Hallopeds? Are they some kind of birds? You can start influencing your surroundings by applying for halloped position. Halloped comes from Finnish HALLinnon OPiskelijaEDustaja, student representative in university administration. Hallopeds are regular students who have been elected for a term of one year to represent students in different university bodies and committees. They take care of interests of all students and do important work for developing our university. It easy to act as a halloped also as a first year student. Most important thing is to be interested in making an impact on your surroundings. AYY educates hallopeds and hallopeds collaborate a lot with themselves. It is a great opportunity to learn how to influence things and how universities work. You can always contact current hallopeds if there is something wrong in our university. You can find the current hallopeds in halloped.fi website. They can bring up your troubles in different committees and start sorting out the situation. Application period for halloped positions for the year 2017 is in November-December this year.
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ARTS Events ARTS Events is a group for all the ARTS students, where you can find and share information about the events which ARTS student would be interested. The group you can find here: https://m.facebook.com/profile. php?id=1329963930416572
OTA(rts)NIEMI OTA(rts)NIEMI is a group for ARTS students, who are studying at Otaniemi campus. You can find information about the events and other interesting things from there. The group you can find here: https://m.facebook.com/groups/1560652974201349
Student Association TOKYO Student Association TOKYO is a group for all the TOKYOs members and ARTS students. In this group you will find most of the TOKYOs and other student associations’ events. You can join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/tokyo.ry/
Instagram You can see pictures of events, TOKYO boards operation and other things at TOKYOs Instagram profile. You can find TOKYOs Instagram-page with the nickname @sheryltokyo
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TOKYO International affairs
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TOKYO International affairs-group is meant for the communication about international matters, among the exchange students. You can join the group here: https:// www.facebook.com/groups/tokyointernationalaffairs/
Poppoo-group Poppoo-group is for active students who are interested in for example TOKYOs operation and event organising. Poppoo’s mission is to gather students together to do some nice activities, get to know eachother and so on. You can join Poppoo-group here: https://www.facebook.com/ groups/608073702725758/
Sheryl Arts At Facebook, you can add Sheryl Arts as your friend. Sheryl is an emissary of TOKYOs love and good will. Sheryl is the spirit of TOKYO and she is always present at the TOKYOs communication. You can add Sheryl as a friend here: https:// www.facebook.com/sheryl.tokyo
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AYY, what AYY? Aalto University Student Union (AYY) is the student union for all students of Aalto University, including you. AYY connects approximately 15 000 art, design, business and technology students. All Aalto University students undertaking bachelor’s or master’s degrees are members of the student union. Doctorate level students and exchange students can join the union if they wish to do so. AYY provides its’ members services and possibilities from a calendar for the academic year and student housing to volunteering at AYY. We work to benefit your well-being and developing the education in the university. In addition to that AYY members have the possibility to rent different sauna and meeting spaces as well as a van for an affordable price. More of AYY’s members’ benefits and services can be found in ayy.fi/en/students/
On AYY’s service point you can for example take care of getting your student card and term sticker.
Arabia service point Hämeentie 135 C, 5. floor, room 564 Helsinki arabia@ayy.fi 050 520 9489
Otaniemi service point and AYY’s housing office Otakaari 11, Espoo otaniemi@ayy.fi 050 520 9400
AYY
The opening hours of the service points can be found in ayy.fi/ en/contact-information/service-points/
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Housing AYY owns apartments that are for Aalto University students to rent. There are not enough apartments to all Aalto University students so you should search for a home through other means as well. First year students and students coming from outside the metropolitan area are a first priority in getting apartments in the beginning of the school year. You can apply for an apartment as soon as you get a confirmation of your study place. Freshmen can get an extra point for single room apartments if the application is made during July or December depending on when you have started your studies.
Applying for an AYY apartment 1. 2.
Get to know AYY’s housing at: ayy.en/housing Read through the info for applying at: ayy.fi/en/housing/ apartment-seekers/how-to-apply-for-housing/
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Apply for an apartment in AYY’s Domo at: domo.ayy.fi
Housing issues are handled by AYY’s housing service point: Otakaari 11, Espoo (entrance upstrairs) asuntotoimisto@ayy.fi Phone: 050 520 9410
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Foundation for Student Housing in the Helsinki Region HOAS: the biggest provider of student housing in the metropolitan area www.hoas.fi University of Helsinki student nations: http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/oyv/asunnot/ Private apartment providerst: http://vuokrahuone.com/
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Student income You should apply for financial aid and housing aid when you get a study place. Applying for aid on the internet is a bit faster. Student financial aid is a combination of study grant, general housing aid, student loan and student meal aid. Applying for study grant online: www.kela.fi/web/en/students-quick-guide Changes to financial aid and housing assistance for students: www.kela.fi/web/en/changes-to-student-financial-aid
STUDENT INCOME
Support and guidance in financial aid and income issues: University financial aid services: opintotuki@aalto. fi, Into.aalto.fi (Services > Student Financial Aid) You can get Kela services through the internet ja or by phone: kela.fi
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Health and well-being
With worries and fatigue you can get help from Nyyti and Aalto University chaplains. More information: www.nyyti.fi & Into.aalto.fi (Services > Aalto University chaplains) If you’re having difficulties concerning studies you can contact the Learning Services of ARTS or the Study and Career psychologists (opintopsykologit@aalto.fi).
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The Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) provides general, mental and oral health care services for students of universities and other institutions of higher education. You get to use these services by paying the student union member’s fee. Reservations are made by phone and FSHS will contact you via a call-back service. Contacting and visits concerning general health are always free. To use FSHS services efficiently you need create an account to FSHS digital Self Service with your bank account or via mobile identification. You can take care of appointments, moving an appointment and other health affairs digitally. Make sure your contact information is valid and updated in Self. More information: http:// www.yths.fi/en/myfshs When FSHS is closed or you can’t get an appointment you can use your own state health centre. The FSHS invites all first-year students to health examination. This examination consists of an electronic health inquiry and, if necessary, a personal health discussion. The inquiry covers issues related to general and oral health and factors affecting these.. If necessary, you will be asked to make an appointment with a public health nurse and/or for an oral health examination/treatment. You can get the information of the examination through the Self Service or via text message.
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University sports - UniSport Students of Aalto University can get affordable sport services in UniSport. UniSport Sport Centres can be found in University of Helsinki central campus, Kumpula, Meilahti, Otaniemi and Töölö. UniSport offers group exercise, ball games, gym training and different courses among other services. Season and single tickets are lowpriced to all Aalto students. More information: www. unisport.fi.
SPORTS AND STUDENT CARD
STUDENT CARD - FRANK
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Congratulations on your study place from the whole Frank team! Frank is a student-own service that provide student cards and the best benefits all over Finland. Frank App, a digital student card, is an official student identifier that you can use to get hundreds of benefits like discounts in student restaurants, train rides and public transportation. Download the Frank App from Google Play or App Store and activate the application after joining your student union. You can attach your international ISIC license to your application and get benefits around the world. A plastic student card with a Debit MasterCard payment feature provided by Danske Bank is free for university and UAS students. A card without the payment feature can be bought for 15 €. More information on the different card options and delivery can be found in the Frank service www.frank.fi. See you there!
Transportation in the metropolitan area A student discount (-50%) for public transit in the metropolitan area can be received by students under 30 years old who live in the HSL area (Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Vantaa) and have a student status in their travel card. The student discount can also be granted to exchange students temporarily living in the HSL area if the grounds for admission are filled. More information on prices, getting a travel card and discount ticket aplication form can be found in www.hsl.fi/en/tickets-and-fares/discount-tickets/students
Connections to and between Aalto campuses Exact routes and timetables can be found in timetable books or through the Journey Planner www.reittiopas.fi
Long distance travelling as a student The student discount in VR long distance train journeys. More information: www.vr.fi. Travel and Parcel Services student discount -50 % from bus trips that are over 80 km long. More information: www.matkahuolto.fi/en/ To get student discounts in busses and trains you need a valid student. A receipt of your student union membership fee does not qualify for a student discount! TRANSPORTATION
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