Free time activities

ISYY clubs in Kuopio

Hyvät Kuvat

Hyvät kuvat is ISYY’s Kuopio campus film club that welcomes everyone.

More information: Website, Facebook, Instagram

Itä-Suomen Akateeminen Shakki

Itä-Suomen Akateeminen Shakki welcomes all students interested in chess. We are a friendly club looking to play and promote chess in the university.

We host weekly meetings in which we'd be glad to teach you chess and play some games. We are also looking to host tournaments and other fun events for our members. Participating in the club doesn't require any prior experience and equipment is provided by the club. We hope to see you soon!

Ota yhteyttä: aaheikki@uef.fi (Aaro Heikkinen, puheenjohtaja)
Lisätietoja: lichess.org

Kamrats

The purpose of the Kamrats Club, as the name implies, is to promote camaraderie among college students. The purpose of the club is to organize interdisciplinary events for all college students throughout the year. The goal of our events is to have fun interdisciplinary with and without alcohol, to ensure the safest possible party environment for everyone, and to build new and maintain old social relationships across subject boundaries. We welcome all college students to participate in our activities and events.

Contact information: samurau(at)student.uef.fi, (Samu Rautio, Chairperson)
More information: Facebook, Instagram

Kuopio Intellectual May Day Society – KIVES

Kuopio Intellectual May Day Society – KIVES, promotes interdisciplinary May Day culture and activities as well as supports May Day spirited students in their endeavors at UEF Kuopio Campus. We are open to all May Day spirited students at UEF. We publish, produce events and promote any kind of activities, which the board decides to associate with May Day, regardless of the year, season or time of day. KIVES is open to all May Day spirited students at UEF.

Contact information: kiiaturu(at)uef.fi (Kiia Turunen, puheenjohtaja)
More information: Facebook, Instagram

Kuopion ylioppilasteatteri – KYT

Kuopion ylioppilasteatteri – KYT, founded in 1977, is an amateur student theatre aiming to promote young adults’ theatre activities by creating open-minded, young and ambitious productions. KYT has established itself in the colourful culture life of Kuopio.

More information: Website, Facebook

KYYLÄ

KYYLÄ is a student club on Kuopio campus operating under the Student Union (ISYY) and focuses on LAN parties. Every year we gather 2–4 times on Lukema and 1–2 times on a cottage to play over the weekend. Are you a PC Master Race gamer? Ogling Steam sales? Have RTS, FPS and simulation games caught your attention? KYYLÄ wants you in to their ranks! Watch our FB page and #KYYLA at IRCnet.

More information: Facebook

Not Fast Just Furious

Not Fast Just Furious run club offers weekly runs to runners of all levels. It doesn’t matter if you have no previous experience with running. The runs vary in distance and the routes are planned before hand. At least one of the founding members will always be present directing the warm-ups and runs but you can always run at your own preferred pace. The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy exercising together with friends and new acquaintances.

More information: Instagram

Sähköposti: nfjfrunclub(at)gmail.com

Pelikerho Kärmes

Pelikerho Kärmes aims to offer students and other enthusiasts a chance to enjoy board, card and strategy games.

Contact information: pelikerhokarmes(at)gmail.com (Anne Pitkänen, puheenjohtaja)
More information: Facebook

Puijon MÄKI

Puijon MÄKI offers students of the UEF ski jumping with an unprecedentedly low gatekeeping. You can join regardless of skill level, even if you have never seen skis (one Taiwanese also jumped on Puijo in the winter of 2022, and this person never been on skis before). The purpose of the club is to organize ski jumping-related events and evening parties in a relaxed atmosphere. If you don't feel like jumping you can come along anyway. In hill jumping, encouragement, maintenance and coaching are also extremely important.

More information: Instagram

Puijon Suunta

Puijon Suunta is an orienteering club, which operates at the Kuopio campus. Activites are open for everyone intersted in orienteering, even if you would not have any former experience. About events and topical matters are informed mainly on Instagram (@puijon_suunta).

More information: Instagram

UEF Muslim Students Club

The main objective of our club is to represent Muslim students at the University of Eastern Finland and take care of their welfare. We organize events such as Iftar Ramadhan, Eid gathering, monthly gathering, Friday prayer, etc. One of our aim is to increase open and interreligious dialogue. We cordially invite and welcome people from other communities to hang out with us, have interesting discussions.

Contact information: abubaker.massi(at)gmail.com (Abubaker Amin, Chairperson)
More information: Facebook

UEF Student Bible Club (UBC)

Come join us as we facilitate the spiritual growth and unity of all Christian students and staff on the UEF campus.

We achieve this goal by an extensive and inspired study of the bible, sharing testimonies, questions and answer sessions, personal counselling and discipleship hours, quality praying time, and gospel outreaches.

We look forward to experiencing 1 Corinthians 2:4,5 AMPC,  “And my language and my message were not set forth in persuasive (enticing and plausible) words of wisdom, but they were in demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power a proof by the Spirit and power of God, operating on me and stirring in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men (human philosophy), but in the power of God.”

We meet virtually every other Saturday, therefore Kuopio and Joensuu students can participate. Time is 18:00 – 20:00. Language translation to either English or Finnish is available. Contact us for the Zoom link. We welcome you to having an impactful experience in our non-denominational Christian club. Looking forward to meeting you.

In Kuopio, we resume physical meetings this autumn semester. Thus, we meet every Sunday from 13:00 (1 pm) to 15:00 (3 pm) in the Studentia building, Lukema Entrance C, (large common room), Yliopistonranta 15, Kuopio, starting August 13th 2023. Any exceptional meeting time will be communicated separately.

Contact information: uef.bibleclub(at)outlook.com, uef.bibleclub(at)gmail.com and WhatsApp +358 46 571 4804 (Akosua)