This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 39/2014

Association-related issues can be found in the association newsletter. The newsletter is available at ayy.fi/yhdistystiedote

Have you began your studies in 2011 or later and have 9 or less student financial aid months left? With a few brief questions, the Student Union would like to clarify the reasons for the inadequacy of student financial aid months in your case. In addition, we are interested in how you intend to finance your studies after the end of student financial aid months. It takes only a few minutes to respond to the survey but it is very important in terms of the Student Union’s advocacy work.

Address to the survey: https://lomake.ayy.fi/sosiaalipolitiikka/vahiin-kay-ennen-kuin-loppuu/

1. This and next week’s events
2. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund!
3. Sign up for kitchen training at Smökki
4. Voi hyvin Aallossa well-being week on campuses 29 Sept–3 Oct
5. Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition!
6. Respond to Nyyti’s survey for new students or discuss in online groups
7. Registration for the legendary narrow-film course of Montaasi is ongoing!
8. What does an academic need a labour union for? Answer TEK’s survey
9. Persons needed for hearing tests for the sound quality of mobile audio in 5G network, week 41
10. Spend the summer of 2015 in culture exchange in Canada!
11. Engineering grants open for applications at Into
12. University news: Minors guide is published and the application period for internal mobility is ongoing until 30 Sept
13. EntreMill – working life oriented career training programme for higher education students! Apply now!
14. Start aikido in Otaniemi – performance at Otahalli today on 22 Sept at 4.30pm

1. This and next week’s events

Week 39

• Tue, 23 Sept – Recruitment sauna of Teekkarispex
• Tue, 23 Sept – Audition of Chamber Choir Dissonanssi
• Tue, 23 Sep – Teekkarigirls’ night for newbies
• Tue, 23 Sep – Dominante’s audition
• Wed, 24 Sept – Hang-out night
• Wed, 24 Sept – ESN Aalto presents Laser Tag vol 1
• Wed, 24 Sept – Freshman sauna at the beach sauna
• Wed, 24 Sept – AEGEE-Helsinki New Members Night
• Wed, 24 Sept – WIMBLEDON sitsit
• Wed, 24 Sept – Open doors to the darkroom
• Thu, 25 Sept – Polirytmi’s newbies night
• Thu, 25 Sept – Teekkari girls vs. RWBK
• Fri, 26 Sept – KIK100 race
• Fri, 26 Sept – Gaudeamus GP – contest of academic horse racing clubs
• Fri, 26 Sept – Jaetaan party
• Sat, 27 Sept – Metal Club Mökä’s freshman sauna
• Sat, 27 Sept – AEGEE-Helsinki Welcome Party
• Sat, 27 Sept – Great debate night – hottest debate in the city

Week 40

Well-being week: see the schedule for the entire week at voihyvin.ayy.fi

• Mon, 29 Sept – Well-being week: Esa Saarinen’s lecture ”Hyvä parempi arki”
• Mon, 29 Sept – KYL’s audition
• Tue, 30 Sept – Otatarha Race
• Tue, 30 Sept – Lakinlaskijaiset
• Tue, 30 Sept – Silent room planning workshop
• Sun, 5 Oct – Open RPG days

2. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund! 

TTE-Fund allocates grants for all Aalto members for their diverse projects! The call for applications is open throughout the academic year and the deadline for the last application round in 2014 will end at 11.59pm on Sunday, 28 Sept 2014.

Application deadlines of all application rounds in the academic year 2014-2015 and instructions for making an application are available at  http://tter.ayy.fi/ . Keep up to date by liking us on facebook: www.facebook.com/tterahasto.

3. Sign up for kitchen training at Smökki

Would you or your association like to have a party at Smökki and take care of catering by yourself? Are you not familiar with how to use a catering kitchen? There is a solution to your problems: Smökki’s kitchen training.

In the autumn of 2014, a free kitchen training available for all AYY’s members will be organised from 3pm onwards on Monday, 6 Oct. The maximum of 20 people can participate in the training in the order of registration. If you want to participate, please be fast. Please sign up for the course by 11.59pm on Thu, 2 Oct at https://lomake.ayy.fi/hallinto/ilmoittautuminen-servin-mokin-keittiokoulutukseen/. We will confirm your registration via-email. Registration is binding. If there are more than 20 people to sign up, the rest of them are added to the waiting list due to cancellations.

Further information: Administrative Director Johanna Pietiläinen (johanna.pietilainen@ayy.fi, 050 520 9434)

4. Voi hyvin Aallossa well-being week on campuses 29 Sept–3 Oct

Would you like to take a little moment to relax along your busy studies? Or are you interested in a more exotic sports try-out? The well-being week is annually organised at Aalto. The purpose of the week is to get everyone to think about their own well-being and present Aalto’s health and well-being organisations for students and staff. This week, the well-being week is organised in week 40 (29 Sept-3 Oct). The week includes try-outs, wellness lectures, parties, mass events, display stands on campuses and other programme. The programme of the entire week is collected to one event site at voihyvin.ayy.fi. Further information is available on Aalto-Inside (requires logging in with Aalto username). Please note that you have to sign up for some of the events, so please act fast.

5. Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition!

DO YOU HAVE SOME THOUGHT PROVOKING, OR VISUALLY STUNNING PICTURES FROM YOUR PROJECTS OR COURSES ABROAD IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition that will take place in early October!

The application period for the photo exhibition held during AYY’s Kehyviikko (AYY Development Cooperation Week) in October is open now!

The theme of the photo exhibition is the perspective of developing countries, including the daily life, education, society and business, etc. Have you lived/traveled in the global south? Have you worked or volunteered in the developing countries? Have you participated on a course with a development context? The photos selected by AYY’s Kehyviikko team will be exhibited with the author’s name and a description of the photo in Aalto University and in AYY’s Kehyviikko facebook page 13.10-19.10.2014.

All the finalists will get a certificate and the best work, and the best finalist will be awarded a special gift and can keep their professionally printed photo! Your photo will be posted the development week Facebook page for a public vote.

• Who can join?  Anyone with an electronic picture (and copyrights to it) related to the topic.

• How to join?  Send your picture to the email address: developmentweek.aalto@gmail.com. Please include your name, contact information, photographer of the photo, and a brief description of the contents.
• Technial requirements for photo: The resolution 300dpi/ppi and the size of the photo should be at least 3508 x 4961px (to print it to A3) for exhibiting.
• What’s the deadline? Pictures need to be submitted by 24.9.2014.
• Questions?  Please contact by email: developmentweek.aalto@gmail.com

6. Respond to Nyyti survey for new students or discuss in online groups 

1. Nyyti’s survey for new students is open again on Nyyti’s website (www.nyyti.fi). The survey charts the new students’ experiences about the academic world and their adjustment to it. You can respond to the survey until 5 Oct in Finnish or Swedish. You can answer anonymously and it takes only a few minutes to respond. Nyyti bags and memory sticks are raffled among those who submit their contact details. Link to the survey: http://digiumenterprise.com/answer/?sid=1205990&chk=DZ6Y8GUR

2. Nyyti’s online groups have started at the beginning of September. The group themes continue to be loneliness, being a single, and a break-up. In addition, there is a new group called ”Alkutaipaleella askarruttaa.” The group is intended for new students who begin their studies this autumn. Further information on online groups is available at  www.nyyti.fi/nettiryhmat .

7. Registration for the legendary narrow-film course of Montaasi is ongoing!

In the legendary film-making course of Montaasi during the weekend between 3-5 Oct, we go through the basics of script writing, visual narration, lighting and filming, as well as shoot short films in groups to 8 mm colour film. The course thus provides a unique opportunity to make a film to narrow-film which becomes rarer each year.

Films are sent to the laboratory to be developed, after which they are edited in Montaasi’s film cutting room at times agreed upon by the groups. Cutting is carried out with the so-called classical method, by cutting and taping.

More detailed course schedule: http://montaasi.ayy.fi/event/kaitafilmikurssi-2014/

Further information and registrations via e-mail: montaasi@list.ayy.fi

Fifteen people may attend the course and the price is EUR 20 for Montaasi members. If you are not a member yet, you can pay the membership fee of EUR 10 in connection with the course fee. You can become a member at http://montaasi.ayy.fi/jaseneksi/

Welcome!

 

 

8. What does an academic need a labour union for? Answer TEK’s survey

Participate in the development of TEK by answering this survey. It is short – you can complete it in 5 minutes. All university students can answer the survey (both current TEK members and those students who don’t belong to TEK yet). An iPad Air is raffled among all the respondents who leave their contact information.

To answer the survey, please click the link: https://my.surveypal.com/TEK_opiskelijoiden_webkysely_syyskuu2014_fi_eng

Thank you for your effort!

9. Persons needed for hearing tests for the sound quality of mobile audio in 5G network, week 41

Do you want to hear how the next generation’s mobile phones sound like?

We are looking for people for hearing tests measuring the sound quality on 6-10 Oct 2014. Tests will have effect on the features of 5G network audio codec. The test takes 2-2.5h and you will get a gift voucher of €35. Tests are organised at SPA’s facilites at the address Otakaari 5.

Further information and registrations at https://aalto-akustiikka.youcanbook.me

10. Spend the summer of 2015 in culture exchange in Canada!

Kaledonistit and its equivalent in Toronto, Hart House Finnish Exchange, form the exchange programme between universities in the metropolitan region and students at the University of Toronto, which is one of the oldest exchange programmes of Finland with its over 60-year history.

Now we are looking for eight students to have a summer job in Toronto in 2015, organise a summer in Helsinki for participants from Toronto in 2017 and form the board of Kaledonistit for the next four years between 2015–2018.

Further information and application instructions: www.kaledonistit.com

11. Engineering grants available for applications at Into

•  From Julius Tallberg Fund, four grants of EUR 1,000 are allocated for successful engineering students undertaking their upper academic degree and also have completed the Bachelor’s degree in engineering at Aalto University. Call for applications: https://into.aalto.fi/display/grants/Julius+Tallbergin+rahasto+-+Julius+Tallbergs+fond+2014

• From Yhdistetty opiskelijarahasto fund, two grants of EUR 1,000 are allocated for successful engineering students undertaking their upper academic degree and also have completed the Bachelor’s degree in engineering at Aalto University. Call for applications: https://into.aalto.fi/display/grants/Opiskelijarahasto+-+Studiefonden+2014

• From the Ernst Wirtzen fund, one grant of EUR 4,000 is allocated for Aalto University’s doctoral student in the field of engineering for a study trip lasting of approximately one year to the United States. Call for applications:https://into.aalto.fi/display/grants/Ernst+Wirtzenin+rahasto+-+Ernst+Wirtzens+fond+-+Ernst+Wirtzen+fund+2014

Deadline for applications is 15 Oct 2014.

12. From the University: Minors guide is published and the application period for Aalto internal mobility is ongoing until 30 Sept 

Aalto University’s minors guide has been published
The new Aalto University’s minors guide has been published! Now the majority of minors available at Aalto University are conveniently in the same place.  The minors guide contains a presentation of all minors at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, minors in accordance with the new degree structure of the schools of technology, as well as minors at the School of Business, which are also offered to applicants from other Aalto schools.

• Minors guide in Finnish: http://studyguides.aalto.fi/minors-guide/2014/fi/
• Minors guide in Swedish: http://studyguides.aalto.fi/minors-guide/2014/sv/
• Minors guide in English:  http://studyguides.aalto.fi/minors-guide/2014/en/

 

The application period for Aalto internal mobility is ongoing and will end on 30 September. Now it is possible to apply for minors and individual courses organised during periods II-V. Many interesting minors and courses are offered. Please check the minors and courses offered from Into and apply now. More information and instructions on how to apply can be found here: https://into.aalto.fi/display/enmobility/Homepage.

13. EntreMill – working life oriented career training programme for higher education students! Apply now!

Do you need sparring in your job search? Are you interested in entrepreneurship? EntreMill career training programme is the answer to these and many other questions! EntreMill is a career training programme connected to the working life, which includes contact teaching, counselling and consulting, as well as the opportunity for personal career guidance. The training programme is intended for enthusiastic and motivated students who study in higher education institutions or who are graduating (polytechnic/university), or recent graduates who need sparring in their transition to the working life and the development of professional skills. The training programme is free for students who are elected to the programme!

Further information and application instructions are available here.

Take advantage of this unique opportunity and apply no later than 12 Oct 2014!

14. Start aikido in Otaniemi – performance at  Otahalli today on 22 Sept, 4.30pm

Aalto Aikikai organises an aikido performance at Otahalli at 4.30pm on Monday, 22Sept. Rehearsals for new students will begin in tatami hall at Jämeräntaival 5 A at 5.30pm on Thursday, 25 Sept. Welcome to watch and try out! More information: www.aaltoaikikai.ayy.fi

 

This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 38/2014

Association-related issues can be found in the association newsletter. The newsletter is available at ayy.fi/yhdistystiedote

The first Aino magazine of the spring will be published on Thursday! The magazine includes an article of completing university studies in prison, Aalto student who got thousands of teenage boys to read books, visit to Hursti’s bread queue and the sauna evening of the bourgeois. Get your own magazine on the campus or read it online at: http://www.ainolehti.fi

1. This and next week’s events
2. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund!
3. Nominate new honorary members for the Guild of the Round Tower
4. Teekkari cap 120 years –exhibition open on two more Sundays
5. 100-hour relay race of the Guild of Mechanical Engineering on 26-30 Sept
6. Darkroom Open Doors Night
7. Dominante is looking for new singers
8. Lighten your load on the climate and win a JoPo bicycle!
9. Apply for Startup Life from 15 Sept onwards!
10. Recruitment sauna of Teekkarispex on Tue, 23 Sept
11. Register to become a member of Aalto Management Consulting Association
12. Join AIESEC – the world’s largest student-run organisation
13. PUS-Basket is looking for new players for men’s and women’s teams
14. OFC offers marshial arts for your autumn
15. Sailing demonstrations and information evening of Teekkaripurjehtijat

1. This and next week’s events

Week 38

• Mon, 15 Sept –KYL’s audition
• Mon, 15 Sept – AMCA Membership Application begins
• Mon, 15 Sept – Aalto Sustainable Business Club Info Night
• Mon, 15 Sept – Dominante’s open rehearsals
• Tue, 16 Sept – Chamber Choir Dissonanssi’s audition
• Tue, 16 Sept – Humans vs. Zombies
• Tue, 16 Sept – AEGEE-Helsinki after work movie
• Tue, 16 Sept – Partner dance courses of Pohjalaisten tanssikerho begin
• Tue, 16 Sept – First Aid evening in English in Tapiola
• Tue, 16 Sept. – Season opening of BEST Helsinki
• Wed, 17 Sept – Bible evening
• Wed, 17 Sept – Audition of the Polytech Choir
• Wed, 17 Sept – Freshman tournament
• Wed, 17 Sept – Dominante’s audition
• Thu, 18 Aug – ESN Aalto’s Welkome Party
• Fri, 19 Sept – Campus event of Otaniemi music associations
• Fri, 19 Sept – Couple’s salsa at Polijazz
• Sat, 20 Sept – Open RPG Days
• Sat, 20 Sept – ESN Aalto’s Cottage Trip
• Sun, 21 Sept – Mass and coffee

Week 39

• Tue, 23 Sept – Recruitment sauna of Teekkarispex
• Tue, 23 Sept – Audition of Chamber Choir Dissonanssi
• Tue, 23 Sep – Teekkarigirls’ night for newbies
• Tue, 23 Sep – Dominante’s audition
• Wed, 24 Sept – Hang-out night
• Wed, 24 Sept – ESN Aalto presents Laser Tag vol 1
• Wed, 24 Sept – Freshman sauna at the beach sauna
• Wed, 24 Sept – AEGEE-Helsinki New Members Night
• Thu, 25 Sept – Polirytmi’s newbies’ night
• Fri, 26 Sept – Gaudeamus GP – contest of academic horse racing clubs 
• Sat, 27 Sept – Metal Club Mökä’s freshman sauna

2. Apply for a project grant from TTE-Fund!

TTE-Fund allocates grants for all Aalto members for their diverse projects! The call for applications is open throughout the academic year and the deadline for the last application round in 2014 will end at 11.59pm on Sunday, 28 Sept 2014.

Application deadlines of all application rounds in the academic year 2014-2015 and instructions for making an application are available at  http://tter.ayy.fi/ . Keep up to date by liking us on facebook: www.facebook.com/tterahasto.

3. Nominate new honorary members for the Guild of the Round Tower

The Guild of the Round Tower is an honorary and senior organisation operating in the vicinity of Aalto University. Persons who are at the final stage of their studies or who have recently graduated and have shown continuous interest in the culture of engineering students and other student activities at Aalto University and promoted its development in the Student Union or its associations may be nominated for the position of an honorary member.

This year’s nominations may be submitted until 10.14am on 10 Oct 2014. The nomination should include the nominated person’s name, picture and the reasons for the nomination, as well as the names of the person(s) who made the nomination. Please also include the candidate’s (expected) graduation year. You may submit nominations through the following form: https://lomake.ayy.fi/ptk/ehdota-uusia-arwoisia/.

4. Technical students’ cap 120 years – exhibition open on two more Sundays

You still have time to visit the exhibition telling about the history of technical students’ cap, introduced in its current form in 1893, on Sundays, 12noon-2pm on 21 and 28 September. Such a thorough presentation will not take place until the year of 2018.

Get to know engineering students’ caps from three centuries, the history of the Finnish student cap, other technical students’ caps, the caps of our neigbouring countries, as well as the showcase of horrors – what not to do! Professional museum guides are waiting for all of you!! Welcome! Technical Students’ Museum, Jämeräntaival 3

5. 100-hour relay race of the Guild of Mechanical Engineering on 26-30 Sept

The 100th anniversary of Guild of Mechanical Engineering is finally ON! To celebrate the respectable age of 100 years KIK will be active whole year through. So that students could feel the long path of 100 years KIK will organise a 100-hour relay race between Otaniemi amphitheater and the old main building at Bulevardi. The run will take place on 26-30 September. The last leg will end at Lakinlaskijaiset party!

The route will go through Keilaniemi and Lauttasaari. Halfway through the route there will be one checkpoint, thus the distance of one leg will be 4.2 kilometres. You can choose any style you want to progress as soon as it remotely reminds us of running. You can run alone or with your friends. It does not matter how fast you are, only the great feeling counts!

In order to achieve the 100-hour goal, we need your help! Sign up for the run here: http://www.koneinsinoorikilta.fi/Toiminta/Tapahtuma/?id=963. Registration will open soon.

In a nutshell:
What: 100-hour relay run
Where: Between Otaniemi and the Old Poly (now Metropolia)
When: 26 Sept, 4:30pm

Additional information: Heikki Laaki, heikki.laaki@aalto.fi

6. Darkroom Open Doors Night

Are you interested in looking the world through a desaturation filter?

Aallon valokuvausseura opens the doors to the darkroom at Jämeräntaival 5 B at 5pm on Wed, 24 September. The event is open for everybody who is interested in hearing about the possibilities of the darkroom, seeing demonstrated developments of b&w films and meeting fellow darkroom users. The event serves to underlay the Course in Darkroom Basics organised later in the autumn, where participants are guided through the film development process in practice.

No need to register and come when it suits you! The darkroom is located in the JMT5B basement and you will find guiding at the location.

• Organiser: Lauri Levola
• Email: lauri.levola@aalto.fi
• Phone: 044 021 2279
• Starts: 24 Sept 2014, 5pm
• Ends: 24 Sept 2014, 9pm
• Place: Darkroom
• Address: Jämeräntaival 5 B
• City: Espoo

7. Dominante is looking for new singers

If you enjoy singing a cappella and with orchestras, want to develop as part of a community and have a desire to experience unforeseen concerts around the world, Dominante may be a choir for you!

Dominante is Aalto University’s mixed choir, which is one of Finland’s finest choirs. Their repertoire includes modern Finnish music, old choral classics, as well as orchestral works. Dominante has a passionate attitude towards everything it does, spiced up with engineering students’ sense of humour.

You can experience the choir atmotsphere and highlights of the future programme in the open rehearsals on 15 Sept, 6pm (TuAS Building).

Welcome to the audition on Wed, 17 Sept or Tue, 23 Sept, 4pm–9pm (TuAS Building, Otaniementie 17)! You can reserve an audition time from the mother of all freshmen, Aino Valli (041 531 3380 or aino.valli (at) aalto.fi). Pleae be prepared to sing an unaccompanied song. In addition, we will test your vocal range and note reading skills. Welcome! www.dominante.fi

8. Lighten your load on the climate and win a JoPo bicycle!

Aalto University and AYY are participating in Climateinfo’s Reduce a Tonne campaign (Kevennä Tonni campaign). Higher education students in the metropolitan area will be reducing their carbon footprint as part of the campaign, and at the same time get the chance to win some nice prizes. Join the campaign at http://ilmastoinfo.fi/kevennatonni/en/reduce-a-tonne-2014. Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/766073256786781/. For Aalto students joining the campaign before 31 October 2014, there will be a prize draw to win a JoPo bicycle!

Seven capital region higher education institutions are participating in the Reduce a Tonne challenge. Together the students commit to trying to reduce emissions and lighten their load on the environment by many thousands of kilos. These education institutions have been set the shared emission reduction goal of 10,000 tonnes CO2-eq, which is equivalent to 3000 petrol cars being taken off Finnish roads for a whole year.

Aalto University and AYY encourage students to participate in the Reduce a Tonne campaign, and also tell their fellow students about it!

The Reduce a Tonne campaign also appears in Aalto University’s sustainability brochure for new students, which is being produced for the third time this autumn, and available in three languages: www.aalto.fi/ecocampus

Further information:

Sustainability at Aalto University, Meri.Loyttyniemi@aalto.fi,+358 50 313 7549, aalto.fi/sustainability

AYY, Sanna.Unkuri@ayy.fi,+358 40 579 6125, www.ayy.fi

9. APPLY FOR START-UP LIFE!

Startup Life is a programme that sends students of Finnish universities to do 3-12 month long, paid internships at start-ups located in Silicon Valley and New York. We believe you learn best by doing, and our internships offer a chance for ambitious students to unleash their full potetial. We offer positions in the areas of engineering, business, and design.

Application period for internships starting in January is now open! To apply, please visit our webpage at http://startuplife.fi and check out the jobs page.

For more information about the programme, please visit our website at http://startuplife.fi or contact our Coordinators Erika Noponen (erika@startupsauna.com) and Eeva Siika-aho (eeva@startupsauna.com). Take the leap, it’s worth it.

10. Recruitment sauna of Teekkarispex, Tue, 23 Sept

Do you already know what you would like to do in Teekkarispex? Whether you answer yes or no, you are welcome to our recruitment sauna event to the main side of OK 20 on Tuesday, 23 Sept 2014! Please note that AYY’s calendar has a wrong date (16 Sept), so please be patient and wait another week.

Each part of the production presents their activities with a fun “Hands-on” task /checkpoint. Everyone is ready to answer your questions and guide you in the direction which interests you.

Recruitment sauna is a laid-back event where you get to know new and old spex members and spend time in a laid-back atmosphere. If you want to go to the sauna, please bring your own towel.

See the participant list and add your own name on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/725317520863846/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Welcome!

11. Register to become a member of Aalto Management Consulting Association from 15 to 26Sept

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11WSzAsFIDSUSvjnsLJW7TDsOJ_M6GhlosF6GwqV2MtA/viewform

Aalto Management Consulting Association (AMCA) is proud to have partnerships with globally respected management consulting companies in Finland. We are dedicated to provide learning and career support for students at Aalto University who are interested in management consulting career. As a member of the association, you have chance to take advantage of the following activities:

•       Weekly case interview practice
•        Member-exclusive events at corporate partners’ premises
•        Networking

Further information, please contact amcaemail@gmail.com, and like us on Facebook (http://on.fb.me/1uCEbbx) for more updates.

12. Join AIESEC – the world’s largest student-run organisation

AIESEC is a big, multinational youth organisation; you can find us in over 120 countries and territories. We are a global youth network that strives to impact the world through leadership experiences. Currently we are offering students two main programmes:

Global Leader: Become a member of AIESEC Aalto while you develop your professional and personal skills by taking part in real-life projects. As a Global Leader, you would gain real practical experience while working in a multicultural organization.

Global Citizen (Volunteer abroad): Get out of your comfort zone and make an impact on society by living and working in a different culture. The volunteering programmes are available in Uganda, Philippines, Colombia and Poland and last from 6-12 weeks. You can already apply for this winter and even the next summer, travel abroad and make a difference!

We have two info sessions in the upcoming week, food and drink will be served:

Tuesday (16 Sept) at 5.30pm in Aalto Design Factory – The Stage
Thursday (18 Sept) at 5.30pm in KY Building – Main Side

• Sign up here https://www.aiesec.org/join/fi (deadline: 30 September)
• Visit our website http://aiesec.fi/
• Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/AIESECinAalto

13. PUS-Basket is looking for new players for men’s and women’s teams

Searching for a basketball team?
Have you played before, but cannot find a suitable team?
How about two rehearsals per week in a student team, and less than EUR100 season fee?

PUS-Basket is the basketball team of Aalto University. Both men’s (2nd division) and women’s (3rd division) teams are looking for new players. Information about the teams (e.g. rehearsal schedules) can be found from our recruitment poster and website.

More information:

• * Men’s team: Jouko Heiskanen, jouko.heiskanen@iki.fi
• * Women’s team: Petra Raivonen: petra.raivonen@gmail.com

14. OFC offers marshial arts for your autumn

This autumn, Otaniemi Fight Club organises several opportunities to get to know and practise marshial arts. Introduction events are free of charge and mainly do not require any previous experience. With the membership fee, you can participate in the weekly rehearsals. We will also organise Muay Thai course including four rehearsals at Otahalli.

Further information is available on the club website: http://ofc.ayy.fi/

15. Sailing demonstrations and information evening of Teekkaripurjehtijat

Sailing demonstrations of Teekkaripurjehtijat provide an excellent opportunity to try out sailing and find out more about this sport and the activities of our club!

Sailing demonstrations are particularly aimed at new students and others interested in our activities, who are not members of TRIP yet. Sailing demonstrations are free of charge and you can participate without previous experience. Demonstrations are usually organised in the evenings and include a skipper and a helmsman. 4-5 participants can join the demonstration where we tour the near waters for a few hours. Registration for sailing demonstrations opens on Monday, 15 Sept, on TRIP’s website and directly through this link: http://trip.ayy.fi/wordpress/?page_id=200

Information evening of Teekkaripurjehtijat will be organised at Ossinlinna (Otakaari 18) from 6pm onwards on Tuesday, 23 Sept.

Further information: http://trip.ayy.fi/wordpress/

This is AYY’s weekly newsletter 37/2014

Association-related issues can be found in the association newsletter. The newsletter is available at ayy.fi/yhdistystiedote

Please register for attendance through Oodi by Friday, 12 Sept and collect a new year tag from AYY’s Service Point. If you have not registered for attendance or non-attendance during the registration period, you must contact OOP service desk of your school and pay a re-registration fee.

Have a nice September!

1. This and next week’s events
2. Capgemini’s Young Professionals Academy call for applications is ongoing!
3. AYY is looking for a person in non-military service for a graphic designer position
4. AYY’s emergency accommodation coordinator helps homeless students
5. Sign up for Aalto-kymppi race by 14 Sept
6. Nominate Aalto Athlete 2014 by 12 Sept
7. Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition!
8. Aalto University Student Family Friend Programme
9. Get to know new kinds of souvenirs of designer students’ What the F collective during Design Week!
10. Join the Chamber Choir Dissonanssi!
11. 25^th anniversary revue of Teekkarispex on 13-14 Oct 2014
12. EHJÄ is looking for new volunteers to act as support persons for children and young people in the metropolitan area
13. Students’ baseball championships on 27-28 Aug 2014, come and represent Aalto University!
14. Free Taekwon-Do beginners’ course

1. This and next week’s events

Week 37

• Mon, 8 Sept – Autumn dance classes of Polijazz begin
• Mon, 8 Sept – First rehearsals of Polytech Orchestra in the autumn season 2014
• Tue, 9 Sept – Stadisuunnistus orienteering
• Tue, 9 Sept – Design Week: What the F – designed souvenirs from Finland, opening ceremony
• Wed, 10 Sept – Opening night
• Wed, 10 Sept – Registration for impro and dance courses of Teekkarispex
• Thu, 11 Sept – Auditions of Polytech Choir
• Thu, 11 Sept  – AEGEE-Helsinki Info Evening
• Thu, 11 Sept  – AYY’s Development Cooperation Week – info evening for the organisation team
• Fri, 12 Sept – Hang-out night
• Fri, 12 Sept – ESN Aalto’s welcome sauna
• Fri, 12 Sept. – Shotokai-karate’s beginners’ course starts
• Fri, 12 Sept – Registration for students’ silence retreat ends 

Week 38

• Mon, 15 Sept –KYL’s audition
• Tue, 16 Sept – Chamber Choir Dissonanssi’s audition
• Tue, 16 Sept – Humans vs. Zombies
• Wed, 17 Sept – Bible evening
• Wed, 17 Sept – Audition of Polytech Choir
• Thu, 18 Sept – ESN Aalto’s Welkome Party
• Fri, 19 Sept – Recreational evening and sauna after party for Otaniemi music clubs
• Sat, 20 Sept – Open RPG Days

2. Capgemini’s Young Professionals Academy call for applications is ongoing!

Get a kick-start for your career! Get to know Capgemini’s Young Professionals Academy programme and apply by 21 Sept. Capgemini is looking for recent graduates in engineering and business for Young Professionals Academy (YPA) programme 2–3 times a year. The programme provides an excellent opportunity to start a career as IT consultant in a permanent job. During the introduction period, you work in customer projects supported by an experienced mentor, deepen your technological knowledge and learn the basics of consulting. Further information is available at: http://www.fi.capgemini.com/careers/your-career-path/young-professionals-academy

3. AYY is looking for a person in non-military service for a graphic designer position

AYY is looking for a person in non-military service for a graphic designer position starting in October 2014 or as agreed. The graphic designer’s duties include design and layout of AYY’s publications and electronic material, as well as participating in the development of graphic image. In practice, this includes various posters, business cards and brochures. The major challenges are the Student Union’s calendar and AYY’s annual report. The graphic designer uses Adobe CS.

If you are interested in completing your non-military service in the Student Union, please contact the Student Union’s Secretary General (paasihteeri(at)ayy.fi / 050 520 9415). Further information on the position is also available from Communications Officer Henna Lahti (henna.lahti@ayy.fi or 0505209440).

4. AYY’s emergency accommodation coordinator helps homeless students

Emergency housing coordinator is in charge of emergency housing for AYY’s students who urgently need short-term accommodation. You can also contact emergency housing coordinator for general guidance on how to look for accommodation (short and long-term) in Helsinki metropolitan area. More info about finding an apartment in the metropolitan area is available here. /en/housing/apartment-seekers/how-to-find-housing/. The emergency accommodation coordinator is hired in cooperation with Aalto University.

You can visit the emergency accommodation coordinator at AYY’s Housing Office in Otaniemi at least at the following times:

• 25 Aug – 12 Sept, 12noon-4pm
• 15 Sept – 30 Sept, 12noon-2pm
• Other times by appointment

Contact information: Emergency Accommodation Coordinator Otto Palonen 050 520 9413, emergencyhousing(at)ayy.fi

The emergency accommodation coordinator also constantly updates AYY’s own databank on housing search in the metropolitan area. The databank is available at:   /asuminen/asunnon-hakeminen-muualta/

5. Sign up for Aalto-kymppi race by 14 Sept

Aalto-kymppi race is an event aimed at Aalto University’s staff and students on Sunday, 21 Sept 2014. In the event, you can move ten kilometres in any way you like; by walking, Nordic walking, running, going front or backwards or in any other way, and you can stop at any time to enjoy the really beautiful scenery on the way. Sign up for Aalto-kymppi by 14 Sept at:  www.rantamaraton.fi/aaltokymppi

Further information: /blog/2014/08/29/osallistu-aalto-kymppi-tapahtumaan-toimitsijoille-tarjolla-30-ilmaispaikkaa/

6. Nominate Aalto Athlete 2014 by 12 Sept  

Aalto Athlete 2014 will be awarded in connection with Aalto Kymppi event on Sunday, 21 Sept 2014. You can submit your nomination for Aalto Athlete to AYY.

The criteria are as follows:

• successful in ones’ sport on a national or international level or particularly this year
• successful study progress
• fair and upright member of the community

Nominations for Aalto Athlete 2014 can be submitted to laura.keski-hakuni@ayy.fi by Friday, 12 Sept.

7. Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition!

DO YOU HAVE SOME THOUGHT PROVOKING, OR VISUALLY STUNNING PICTURES FROM YOUR PROJECTS OR COURSES ABROAD IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES? Send your pics to AYY’s development cooperation week’s photo exhibition that will take place in early October!

The application period for the photo exhibition held during AYY’s Kehyviikko (AYY Development Cooperation Week) in October is open now!

The theme of the photo exhibition is the perspective of developing countries, including the daily life, education, society and business, etc. Have you lived/traveled in the global south? Have you worked or volunteered in the developing countries? Have you participated on a course with a development context? The photos selected by AYY’s Kehyviikko team will be exhibited with the author’s name and a description of the photo in Aalto University and in AYY’s Kehyviikko facebook page 13.10-19.10.2014.

All the finalists will get a certificate and the best work, and the best finalist will be awarded a special gift and can keep their professionally printed photo! Your photo will be posted the development week Facebook page for a public vote.

• Who can join?  Anyone with an electronic picture (and copyrights to it) related to the topic.

• How to join?  Send your picture to the email address: developmentweek.aalto@gmail.com. Please include your name, contact information, photographer of the photo, and a brief description of the contents.
• Technial requirements for photo: The resolution 300dpi/ppi and the size of the photo should be at least 3508 x 4961px (to print it to A3) for exhibiting.
• What’s the deadline? Pictures need to be submitted by 24.9.2014.
• Questions?  Please contact by email: duonglap1989@live.com, briana.romero8@gmail.com

8. Aalto University Student Family Friend Programme: Apply now!

International students, do you want to expand your horizons in Finland by getting to know the culture beyond your campus and studies?

Aalto Student Family Friend Programme matches international students with Aalto University’s families. This programme offers international students of Aalto University a chance to better integrate in the Finnish society by getting to know the Finnish way of life through a friendship with a local family – at the same time, the family also has a special opportunity to make international friends and learn about the students’ home country and culture. The only requirement is to meet at least once.

For more information and to apply go to https://alumninet.aalto.fi/AlumniBenefits/StudentFamilyFriendProgramme_.aspx

Application deadline: 22 September

9. Get to know new kinds of souvenirs of designer students’ What the F collective during Design Week!

Students of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture present their ideas on new kinds of souvenirs at Cultura Foundations’ meeting point Kasi.  The students have established What the F collective. The collective’s vision on interesting Finnish products is a combination of sweet, black, sweat, humour, practicality, traditions, mysteries and quality. As a result, they have created fresh and alternative souvenir products, the prototypes of which the students first presented at Travel Fair in January 2014. Now these souvenirs are presented in Design Week!

Welcome to experience, watch and comment What the F products in Design Week on 9- 13 Sept 2014 at the meeting point Kasi! Welcome to the opening ceremony at 5.30pm-7pm on 9 Sept 2014 at the meeting point Kasi at Vuorikatu 8 in Helsinki!

10. Join the Chamber Choir Dissonanssi!

The Chamber Choir Dissonanssi sings diverse music ranging from renaissance to glam metal – not forgetting to have fun. We are now looking for new singers, particularly male singers, but also new female singers are welcome. We rehearse in Otaniemi in the building of Mechanical Engineering every Tuesday evening at 5.30pm-8pm during the academic terms. Auditions for the autumn term will be arranged on 16 Sept and 23 Sept, but you can also join in the middle of the term. If you are interested, please contact out Artistic Director Yki Kortesniemi (yki.kortesniemi@gmail.com).

11. 25^th anniversary revue of Teekkarispex on 13-14 Oct 2014

The 25^th anniversary revue of Teekkarispex will take place on the stage of Alexander Theatre on 13-14 Oct 2014. The revue consists of the best bits of the history of Teekkarispex over a quarter of a century, as well as unexpected new events of beloved spex characters at later stages of their lives. The revue climaxes with a bunch of unforgettable spex songs, as well as improvisation fueled by omstart shouts from the audience.

Participate in Facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/640057099442093) and get your ticket at the ticket store at http://www.speksi25.com as soon as it opens: the best seats are sold fast!

• Performances: 13-14 Oct 2014, 7pm
• Venue: Alexander Theatre, Albertinkatu 32, Helsinki
• Tickets: EUR 15 (students), EUR 20/25 (others)

12. EHJÄ is looking for new volunteers to act as support persons for children and young people in the metropolitan area

As a support person in child welfare, you can offer your time and do something nice with a child or a young person in need of support. EHJÄ is looking for new volunteers to act as support persons in the metropolitan area.

As a volunteer support person, you will:

• – meet the child/young person once or twice per month
• – do various things together, such as spend an autumn afternoon in the park or go ice-skating in the winter
• – give adult attention and support.

Read more and get excited! www.ehja.fi/kuvat/tukihenkiloksi.pdf

Get in touch: tukihenkilo@ehja.fi / 045 132 9321

You can find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ehjatukihenkilotoiminta

www.ehja.fi

13. Students’ Finnish championships in baseball on 27-28 Aug 2014, come and represent Aalto University!

This year, students’ Finnish Championships in baseball will be organised in Seinäjoki on 27-28 Sept. OtaKoppi gathers teams for amateur and contest leagues and invites all Aalto members to represent Aalto University in the championships! So if you are interested in laid-back baseball, this is an excellent opportunity to try out our national sport!

Questions and registrations to otakoppi-hallitus@list.ayy.fi. Further information on the championships is available at: http://www.samo.fi/osm-pesapallo2014.

14. Free Taekwon-Do beginners’ course

Start a new hobby in good company! Taekwon-Do of the University of Helsinki will organise a beginners’ course for the students and staff of the University of Helsinki and Aalto University.

The course is free of charge and no previous experience is required. At rehearsals, you get in better shape, strengthen abdominal muscles, learn kick and punch techniques, as well as body control and maintenance.

Rehearsals are held in the sports hall in the administrative building on Wednesdays, 5.30pm-6.30pm and Saturdays, 1pm-2.30pm. The first rehearsals are held on Wednesday, 10 Sept. You can join throughout September! WELCOME!

Sign up: Beginners’ course http://www.hytaekwondo.com/club/signup.php?ref=club-course-bottom