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11.11.2019

Call for applicants: Become and Executive Board Member for 2020!

Are you ready to spend the best year of your studies? Do you want to gain valuable experience for working life? Are you interested to gain significant personal growth as a role of employer within one year? What about influencing the society and promoting student's welfare?  

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, apply for the Student Union’s Executive Board for the year 2020!

The Executive Board for the year 2020 is selected at the Student Union Representative Council’s meeting on 11.12.2019. Those interested in applying for the Board, can forward their contact details to the Student Union. The applicants will also have a chance to participate in a panel discussion on 4.12.2019.

In case you are interested in being a part of the Board, please express your willingness of becoming a board member by sending a motivation letter to the tiedotus@isyy.fi and hakemukset@isyy.fi no later than on 1.12.2019. Also include a short introduction of yourself and your resume. Both will be published on the Student Union’s web pages for the decision makers and other students to view.  By sending an application accept that it will be published on Student Union’s website.

According to Student Union’s rules, you can run for the Executive Board also in the Representative Council Meeting on 11th of December.

Information of the interested candidates so far (in Finnish or in English) can be found on ISYY’s website under section Make an Impact > Become an Executive Board Member.

Panel discussion for the candidates will be held on 4.12.2019 at 17–19 in Joensuu (room BOR101), Kuopio (room CA304).  The public is welcomed to follow the panel discussion!

Student Union’s Executive Board – what is it?

The Representative Council elects the Board’s Chairperson, Vice Chair and 4-8 members annually. The Board is the executive body of the Student Union. It implements the decisions of the Representative Council, represents the Student Union and monitors the economy of the Student Union together with the Secretary General and the Committee for Economic Affairs.

The Board works in close cooperation with the Student Union's committees and sections. Members of the Student Union can influence the Board’s statements and comments, and have their opinions heard in the Board through the committees and sections. During the year, the Board members have meetings regularly, travel around Finland cooperating with other Student Unions as well as represent the Student Union in different events, meetings and committees. The Board members also receive a compensation for their commission of trust.

The Council of Representative elects the Board for a one-year term at the end of each year.

All eligible members of the Student Union can stand as candidates for the Board. The Executive Board for the year 2020 will familiarise the new Board members for their duties on 14.–15.12.2019. All elected Board members are expected to attend the orientation. All elected Board members are also expected to be available on 18.–19.12.2019. The Chairperson is expected to be available on 11.–12.12.2019.

Read more:

Isyy.fi: Panel discussion for ISYY’s Executive Board candidates
Isyy.fi: Applicants for Student Union's Executive Board 2020
Isyy.fi: Executive Board

More Information:

Aleksi Kinnunen, Chairperson of the Executive Board,  Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland, puheenjohtaja(at)isyy.fi, +358 44 576 8404

Sanna Heinonen, Secretary General, Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland, paasihteeri(at)isyy.fi, tel. +358 44 576 8417