This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 10/2014

Students’ shrovetide celebrations will take place at Ullanlinnanmäki again on Tuesday, 4 Mar. Despite the warm spring, Vapaateekkarit have promised that there will be snow, so bring your sledge and head to the hill! The official after party of shrovetide celebrations will take place at Gravitaatio party at The Circus.

1. This and next week’s events
2. I DO want to send mail to a member of parliament!
3. Inspection lists for AYY’s facilities rented on a one-time basis to become electronic on 3 Mar 2014
4. National student feedback survey commences again
5. Snow is guaranteed for Shrovetide celebrations!
6. WANTED: Tutors for international students for the academic year 2014-2015
7. Join us to create a great development cooperation week!
8. Mosaic’s World Dinner on Thursday, 6 Mar @ Smökki
9. Calling and a dream job – how to find it and how to make a career plan for it?
10. Apply for AIESEC’s Global Citizen programme
11. Debating for first-timers at Design Factory on Thu, 6 March
12. Great debate night – the hottest debate of the city
13. Student information portal Into to require login temporarily

1.    This and next week’s events

Week 10

• Mon, 3 Mar – KYN’s spring audition 2014
• Tue, 4 Mar – Shrovetide celebrations
• Tue, 4 Mar – Gravitaatio
• Wed, 5 Mar – Prayer night
• Wed, 5 Mar – Café Lingua
• Wed, 5 Mar – ADS debate
• Thu, 6 Mar – Hang out night
• Thu, 6 Mar – World Dinner
• Thu, 6 Mar – ADS introduction night in Otaniemi

Week 11

• Wed, 12 Mar – Siiri Helokunnas: Todistustaakka?
• Wed, 12 Mar – ADS debate

2. I DO want to send mail to a member of parliament!

Participate in the promotion of an equal marriage act in the Parliament and approach your own member of parliament with a post card! You do not have to make one, unless you want to, as AYY will send a card on your behalf on the Equality Day (19 Mar). You can leave your regards with an electronic form: https://lomake.ayy.fi/sosiaalipolitiikka/tahdon-lahettaa-kortin-kansanedustajalleni/

3. Inspection lists for AYY’s facilities rented on a one-time basis to become electronic on 3 Mar 2014

Aalto University Student Union will discontinue the use of paper inspection lists. From 3 Mar 2014 onwards, Otaniemi Service Point will no longer distribute old paper inspection lists.New lists can be found at http://lomake.ayy.fi/tilat. Lists have been tested on most mobile phones and they work flawlessly. On the same site, there is a form for reporting defects. The service points provide more detailed information on the subject. Next time when you rent facilities, please get to know the list carefully!
Questions concerning the lists can be send to tilat@ayy.fi

4. National student feedback survey commences again

The students who have completed a bachelor’s degree at Aalto University during 1 Aug– 31 Dec 2013 are invited to participate in the student feedback survey in the beginning of March. The survey is to be conducted at all Finnish universities twice a year, and this autumn the survey will be held from 3 to 21 March. The survey can be answered online and a link will be sent by email to the graduates.

From 2015 onwards, the Ministry of Education and Culture is planning to distribute annually 3% (approx. €50 million) of university core funding based on student feedback. In addition to the direct financial impact that the survey has, Aalto University will use the results of the feedback to develop education and support services for education. For further information, please contact Aalto University’s Development Specialist Reetta Koivisto, (reetta.koivisto@aalto.fi)
See the report of the previous survey can be found from Into.
Also see further information about the project at the Universities Finland (UNIFI) website.

5. Snow guaranteed for Shrovetide celebrations!

Vapaateekkarit will make sure that there will be snow in the most spectacular winter event. So bring your slider or sledge and head to Ullis! If you have not registered your team for ABB’s academic sliding contest, please head to the address laskiaisrieha.fi and take care of the matter as soon as possible. This year, the best team will win 10 tickets for Waterland party organised on Friday, 7 Mar!

Stay up to date on the latest information on the FB event.

You can buy badges for the Shrovetide celebrations 2014 at ticket sales points of Gravitaatio and in the event itself in the tent of Vapaateekkarit. The badge costs EUR 2. See you at Ullis!

6. WANTED: Tutors for international students for the academic year 2014-2015

Enthusiastic international tutors are searched for at Aalto CHEM, ELEC, ENG, SCI and ARTS (architecture students)! International tutors have a very important role in leading an international group and integrating them into our student community. Tutors get to know new cultures, make new friends and have a great time!

International tutors are also entitled to one credit point after attending AYY’s tutor trainings and returning a report. Tutors will get a tutor certificate and expense reimbursement, too. Half-a-day tutor trainings are held in April, tutor groups formed during the summer and the action starts in the autumn, when the new international students arrive to Finland.
Find more information at ayy.fi/international-tutoring and apply now!

7. Join us to create a great development co-operation week!

Are you interested in global questions? Would you like to know more about the interrelation of development and education? Do you have a secret or a very open wish to make the world a better place?

AYY will organise a development co-operation week in October with a central theme education and development. The aim of the week is to increase awareness of global questions and development co-operation among university students as part of a national campaign by the National Union of University Students (SYL). If you are excited about or want to learn more about development co-operation, join our first meeting at AYY’s Central Office (Otakaari 11) upstairs in the negotiation room on Tuesday, 18 March at 5pm for more information!

You do not need to have a grand vision or experience in the field. Everyone (any background, any level of skill, any interests) is welcome to hear the info and share their ideas, even if you will not be in Finland for the autumn semester. If you cannot make it, just drop a line to teija.lehmuskoski@aalto.fi and we will be in touch.

8. Mosaic’s World Dinner on Thursday, 6 Mar @ Smökki

World Dinner is an event where hundreds of AYY students share a dinner together by bringing some food they have prepared by themselves and tasting the meals of others. You can participate in the event individually, but the easiest way is to gather a group of 2-5 people and cook a large meal together (meaning at least as much, as your group together would eat).
Please note that in order to take part in the event, you must:

1. Be prepared to cook a little something for the others, and
2. Sign up at: https://lomake.ayy.fi/mosaic/6-3-world-dinner/ – why not already now, but at the latest on Wednesday, 5 March!

See you at Smökki!

9. Calling and a dream job – how to find it and how to make a career plan for it?

The workshop will be held at Aalto Design Factory’s Studio classroom (Betonimiehenkuja 5C) at 2pm-4.30pm on Tuesday, 25 Mar 204. The workshop will be held in Finnish.
What is your calling or a dream career like? Plans are dreams that have a schedule. What kind of dreams do you have in terms of the working life? What is the best vision for you? Join the workshop where we sketch our dreams and make our calling into a career plan.
Work methods: introductions, discussion groups and independent work with the career map. Trainers are Jenny Vainio and Seija Leppänen from Aalto University. The maximum number of participants is 20. Please sign up by 21 Mar 2014 to Jenny Vainio at jenny.vainio@aalto.fi

10. Apply for AIESEC’s Global Citizen programme

Would you like to make a difference in the summer of 2014? Participate in AIESEC’s Global Citizen programme and volunteer abroad! Global Citizen is a 6 to 12 weeks long AIESEC’s international community development programme for students who are interested in doing something good for society, as well as learning and developing personally by living and working in another country.
Through the programme, you can develop the local community by working in an organisation or school or volunteering together with other international volunteers.
Challenge your worldview, go for the adventure and fully experience diversity, while developing yourself in a completely new culture!
Interested? Apply at globalcitizen-fi.com
Or contact AIESEC’s contact person at Aalto in charge of exchange affairs at van1311.dang@aiesec.net if you have any questions.

11. Debating for first-timers at Design Factory on Thu, 6 Mar  

Doubting your public speaking skills? Presentation and debating is a sport you learn by doing, and a skill that anyone can sharpen by practicing. Join the ”Newcomers debate evening in Otaniemi” with Aalto Debating Society (on Thu, 6 March) & try out how debating works for you. The programme is planned for first-timers, so there is no pressure and every student can easily step in. This is an easygoing event, where you can test your improvisation skills & get to know debating techniques. The event will start at 5pm at Design Factory.
https://www.facebook.com/events/465294243596235/

12. Great debate night – the hottest debate of the city  

Great debate night – the hottest debate of the city at Apollo Live Club (Mannerheimintie 16) at 8pm on Friday, 7 Mar. The doors will open at 7pm. The debates will be hald in Finnish.

• Members of Parliament Jussi Halla-aho (The Finns Party) and Mikael Jungner (Social Democratic Party): Tarvitaanko Suomeen Amerikan-mallin mukaista sananvapauslainsäädäntöä? (”Does Finland need the American model of the freedom of expression legislation?”)
• Director Jari Halonen and blogger Henry Laasanen: Onko naisen saaminen miehen elämän tärkein päämäärä? (”Is getting a woman a man’s most important goal in life?”)
• Nutrition expert Patrik Borg and former Chief Editor Ulla-Maija Paavilainen Pilaako laihdutusjournalismin seuraaminen laihduttamisen mahdollisuudet? (”Does following the dieting journalism ruin possibilities to lose weight?”)

The commentator is the head of the monthly supplement of Helsingin Sanomat Lauri Malkavaara.  DJ Supergrande plays music.
Tickets at the entrance EUR 6, in advance EUR 5. Advance tickets from Tiketti.  https://www.facebook.com/SuuriVaittelyilta

13. Student information portal Into to require login temporarily

Aalto IT and Aalto Communications will be doing extensive development and changes to the IT system behind the portal into.aalto.fi during March. For the duration of the development, the service will temporarily require login (shibboleth) with the Aalto login and password. We will inform the Aalto community of the schedule of the changes to be made during March. Further information Juha Martikainen (juha.h.martikainen@aalto.fi)