S E RV I C E S F O R HYY’S MEMBERS STUDENT CARD HYY’s members can activate a free digital student card (Frank App) or order a traditional plastic student card from Frank’s online service. The card is the easiest way to prove your student union membership. With the card, you will receive discounts on the services of VR (the national railway company), Matkahuolto (bus and coach services) and student restaurants as well as several other stores and services. For the traditional student card, you should get an annually renewed year tag from either HYY’s Services Office or the temporary year tag collection points. The year tag proves that you have paid the Student Union’s membership fee. Instructions for ordering the card and an impressive and constantly growing selection of student discounts: frank.fi/en. GUIDANCE HYY’s specialists provide members with guidance on issues such as students’ legal protection, housing, subsistence and studies at the university. Their contact information can be found on HYY’s website. YLIOPPILASLEHTI STUDENT MAGAZINE HYY provides all its members with a subscription to the Ylioppilaslehti student magazine, published three times in an academic term. The magazine, founded in 1913, deals with phenomena related to society, culture and the student world before other media have realised they exist, offering fresh perspectives, thoughts and emotions. If you are interested in writing, taking photos or illustrating for Ylioppilaslehti, please contact the magazine’s editor in chief (paatoimittaja@ylioppilaslehti.fi).
STUDENT CALENDAR HYY’s members receive a student calendar every year. The calendar features useful information about the Student Union, descriptions of student organisations operating under HYY and student benefits. You can pick up the calendar at HYY’s Services Office or the temporary year tag collection points at the beginning of the academic year. FREE LEGAL AID HYY offers its members free legal advice provided by Pykälä ry, the subject organisation of law students. The majority of the questions they receive concern housing, employment, family and estate law, studies and social security. The service does not provide tax advice, nor does it prepare documents – although it does provide guidance on drafting them and reviews finished documents. During academic terms, the service is on duty at Pykälä’s office at Mannerheimintie 3 B, 5th floor, tel. +358 9 278 5005, oikeusapu@helsinki.fi. Further information: pykala.fi/legal-assistance. LITTLE HYY The Student Union provides its members with temporary childcare at Siltavuorenpenger 3 C. The minimum age for children is 6 months, and the maximum duration of childcare is four hours at a time. Further information: pikkuhyy@hyy.fi and hyy.fi/en/guides/survival-guide#little-hyy.
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