Hobby Buddy

The Hobby Buddy Service is for all students of the University of Eastern Finland who want to make new friends through common hobbies and interests. It can be an old hobby or starting a new one. By filling out the hobby buddy application, we will find a matching friend for you. You can also indicate in the application how many friends you are looking for and the age of the friend you would like. Please note that in this service you cannot search for friends for exercise and sports. If you are looking for a friend to exercise with, please check out the Sports Buddy service of SYKETTÄ.

Below, we update a campus-specific list of different hobbies for which students are currently looking for a company. You can also get to know ISYY's already existing clubs or gather a group of people interested in the same hobby and start a new club around the hobby.

We read the applications and share the contact information of matching applications usually once a week. We hope that the students who have registered for the service will contact the suggested hobby buddy after sharing their contact information. Please be kind and respond to the proposed buddy's contact.

ISYY withholds the right to edit the description about the recreational activity and to abstain from publishing any adverts we find inappropriate. The Hobby Buddy Service is not an escort service. Please be cautious when meeting new people, use the service at your own risk.

Application form

The Hobby Buddy application form

Joensuu's wanted buddies (updated 10.10.2025)

• Anime / manga / manhwa
• Arts and crafts (e.g. scrapbooking, journaling, jewelry making)
• Board and card games (e.g. UNO)
• Books / reading / writing / writing clubs
• Coding
• Cooking / baking / food courses
• Cultural events (concerts, student events, theater)
• Darts
• Drawing / painting
• Flea markets / shopping
• Forest trips / hiking / nature
• Geocaching
• Getting to know Finland (nature, culture, sauna, language)
• Handicrafts
• History / anthropology / study of religions
• K-pop / K-dramas
• Languages and language exchange (English, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, German, Finnish, etc.)
• Music / band activities / music production (e.g. FL Studio)
• Puzzles
• Role-playing games (e.g. Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu)
• Sustainable living (reuse, zero waste, animal welfare)
• Theater / drama
• Traveling
• TV / web series
• Video games (e.g. Nintendo, Valorant, League of Legends, Elder Scrolls, Overwatch, Street Fighter, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Zelda)
• Visiting cafés
• Visual arts and exhibitions

Kuopio's wanted buddies (updated 10.10.2025)

• Anime / manga
• Art
• Baking and cooking
• Board games
• Café visits / having coffee
• Clay modeling / pottery
• Cosplay
• Debates
• Drawing
• Escape room games
• Films / movies
• Greek mythology
• Languages / language exchange / cultures (e.g. Spanish, Italian, Japanese)
• K-pop / K-pop dance
• Latin dances and music (e.g. bachata, salsa)
• Makeup
• Music / band activities / playing music together
• Nature and forest trips
• Painting
• Poetry
• Study group / learning circle
• Traveling
• TV shows / reality series
• Video games (e.g. Dungeons & Dragons)

Read more:

ISYY's Clubs

SYKETTÄ Joensuu’s Sports Buddy Service

SYKETTÄ Kuopio’s Sports Buddy Service

Further information:

Eveliina Scharin, Community Coordinator, Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY), yk(at)isyy.fi, tel. +358 44 576 8408

This page was last updated on 10.10.2025