What is BRIDGES?

The University of Eastern Finland has received a special grant from the Ministry of Education and Culture for the years 2021-2022 to promote well-being of students and prevent exclusion. The project has several subcontractors, one of which is ISYY. The aim of the BRIDGES project is to reduce the experience of loneliness and to prevent exclusion through activities that increase students' community and well-being.

SYKETTÄ news

Sports Afternoon is coming up! Are you ready?

University of Eastern Finland’s and Savonia University of Applied Sciences’ students and staff members are enjoying their Sports Afternoon on Tuesday 1st of March at 12.15-16. Every event in the sports afternoon is open for all students and staff members of Savonia and UEF as well as the students of HUMAK and Uniart Kuopio campuses. You don’t need a SYKETTÄ sticker to participate in these events!

The spring season Sports Afternoon is the perfect time for your work or study group to enjoy the outdoors together! However, there are also indoor sports events held on our campus sports facilities as well as on our co-operative companies facilities.

We want to remind all Sports Afternoon participants to follow the Instructions for Safe Exercising that can be found from this link.

NOTICE!

• Enrollment for riding at Savisaari or Peikkometsä and for Padel is open
• Bowling at Keilakukko and Bowling Centre Rauhalahti track reservations are best to make before 22.2. - After that, other people can make reservations.
• Enrollment to the other events opens on 22.2.
• More information, the programme and enrolling instructions can be found here.

ALSO: 28.2.-6.3.2022 SYKETTÄ Kuopio has a free sports week. You are warmly welcome to take part in this week's other classes too!
 

Upcoming courses and get to know classes

Check these out here.
 

More tips and information on

• Instagram @syketta_kpo
• Facebook-page SYKETTÄ – Kuopion korkeakoululiikunta  

UEF students, develop your study and working-life skills in online trainings!

University of Eastern Finland provides its staff and students with online trainings, which help to develop the most essential study and working-life skills.

“Keys to Well-being – 5 Steps towards Future Work Skills” online trainings are designed to improve self-management skills, which are increasingly important in the changing world of work and study. Transformation of work requires new skills and competences: time and self-management skills, resilience and adaptability, collaboration skills, new ways of thinking, taking care of well-being and finding meaning in our work.

The online trainings consist of short videos as well as in-depth trainings. The trainings can be accessed flexibly at any time that suits you. They are free of charge to UEF staff and students, and they are available until January 31, 2023. The trainings can be accessed by logging into Moodle with your UEF-account: Keys to Wellbeing – 5 Steps towards Future Work Skills

New course from the Language Center: Cross-cultural communication in English

Would you like to improve your English oral skills? Join our 1 course where you get to practise your pronunciation, discuss cultural topics, and learn about working with Finns, both in theory and in practice. You will have lessons as a group and together with 5th year medical students. You will participate in two role-play interviews (past medical history and motivational interview), learn about interview techniques and relevant language.

Schedule:

• 14.3. at 13.15- 14.45 session 1
• 18.3. session 2 (Independent-study session)
• 21.3. at 13.15 -14.45 session 3 (together with medical students)
• 24.3. at 12.15 -13.45 session 4
• 30.3. at 13.15- 14.45 session 5
• 11.4. at 13.15 -14.45 session 6 (together with medical students)

If you are interested in taking part in this course, please submit your sign-up form by 3.3.2022.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Hanne Lahti (hanne.lahti@uef.fi) and Tommi Kakko (tommi.kakko@uef.fi).

Free admission and free bus transportation for students to Tahko Ski Lift Pitch on Wednesday 6th of April!

Tahko Ski Lift Pitch, the most significant startup company event in the Kuopio area, will be held in Tahko on Wed-Thu 6.-7. of April! At the event, startup entrepreneurs will compete with their business ideas in ski lifts and try to convince investors of their business idea. UEF is one of the main partners of the event, so there will be free admission for students and a free bus transfer on Wednesday, April 6th!

There will also be a competition for students called Student Track where students can present their business ideas and compete with each other. The best idea will be rewarded with a EUR 500 gift card to Gigantti.

The departure of Kuopio's bus ride is on Wednesday 6th of April at 8 am from Microkatu 1 and the return ride from Tahko leaves at 5:30 pm and takes you to Microkatu 1. A bus ride from Joensuu will be arranged if at least about 10 people register. Departure from the Joensuu campus is at 7 am and bus leaves Tahko at 5:30 pm.

Meals are not included in the free student ticket, but you can eat on site e.g., at the Sokos Hotel Ski Buffet for € 9.90 by presenting the Tahko Ski Lift Pitch student pass. Event passes are distributed either on the bus or on site.

Registration of UEF students for bus transportation by 16th of March (Indicate in the message whether you participate in the bus ride from Kuopio or Joensuu): tomi.tuovinen@uef.fi

Come to Tahko to marvel at the local startup buzz!

More information: The discount ticket should be purchased at the Kuopio Music Centre Ticket sales on the day of the concert (open Mon-Fri 3-5 pm or until the beginning of the performance and on weekend 1 hour before the performance, open hours valid for the time being). The discount price is only valid if there are still tickets left. To access the discount price a valid student card chould be presented when purchasing the ticket.

Student2Student-peer counselling is here to support you!

 Do you have any difficulties in your everyday life or in your studies? Do you find yourself anxious in online classes? Do you have anything on your mind that you would like to talk about? Don’t be left alone with your thoughts.  

We Student2Student peer counsellors are here for you. You can contact us in any thoughts you have concerning your studies or wellbeing. All the conversations are free of charge, confidential, and you can also discuss your situation anonymously. Let’s ponder your situation together! You can also leave a callback request at any time during the week, and we will call you back during on-call hours.

Contact us:  

• CALL 029 445 8580 or
• CHAT kamu.uef.fi (Tue–Thu: 2pm-5pm)

Read the latest information related to COVID-19 on the:

• website of the Finnish institute of health and welfare
• Kuopio City's website
   
• The regional coronavirus steering group recommends to wear a mask when distancing recommendations cannot be effectively observed.
• The University of Eastern Finland recommends the use of masks on campus! Also, UEF recommends the use of the Koronavilkku app to its students and staff.
• If you have any flu symptoms and suspect that you might have been infected with Covid-19, you can take a home test which are available in local supermarkets.
  • See here who is eligible for a coronavirus test via the municipal services.
    • If you belong to a risk group and you think that you have coronavirus, you can call Kuopio City Corona Help Line and book an appointment for a test: +358 44 704 6700. The help line is open weekdays Mon-Thu from 8am to 3pm, Friday from 8am to 2pm and on weekend Fri-Sun from 8am to 12 noon.

ESN KISA General Meeting 28.2. at 6 pm

ISYY Club ESN KISA will hold a General Meeting on Monday 28th of February starting at 6 pm at Lukema (Studendia-building, C-door). Come to listen, make impact and take part in ESN KISA activities!

ESN KISA organises recreational activities for international and Finnish students. These activities include excursions, parties, game nights, cultural exchange and other events. ESN KISA Clubs goal is to make your time in Kuopio as fun and memorable as possible. Membership of ESN KISA is free for all Student Union members.

ESN KISA events

ESN KISA has launched their event calendar for February and March and they have lots of cool events lined up! You can check the calendar and details of the events on their Instagram account.

If you want to join KISA's WhatsApp group, you can find a link for that on their Facebook page. The post is pinned to the top.

Sign-up for Academic League of Legends IV (LoL)(DL 27.2.)

Tr3 Gamers Ry is organizing the Academic League of Legends IV (ALL) once again for its fifth time as we go back to the swiss tournament system. Gather your team for atleast 5 people also consisting at least three academic playing members to sign-in and take part in the most amazing completely online played League of Legends tournament consisting teams variating all levels of a skill.  There is a trophy/money/exceptional prizes coming for our leagues superior!

Games since the first round of the league season will be played from saturdays/sundays unless captains choose to reschedule their matches with other teams to another date. From week to week you will have another enemy team based on your played games and how you managed to play them up to that point. Teams that will find all the way to the tournament final will be fighting for leagues championship online on weekend of November 7.5. This date may differ depending on amount of teams joining the league.

Team sign-in forms from the teams have already opened so fill in your own here until Sunday 27.2. until 11:59 p.m. If you can’t assemble full team from your own friends, you can fill in rest of your team from players at ALL’s discord server #all-lft channel if there are some or look for team that is looking for players if you are solely looking for some, link down at the bottom of this message. 

The league rules that players and teams must follow can be found here in Finnish.

League-related information, schedules, streams and other things worth mentioning with all the rest of the discussion that can be found on the ALL’s Discord server which you can join by visiting and doing verification to your discord account by following the instructions in the #aula. 

The shortest way to work - Pondi

Pondi is a new Savilahti talent pond implemented by KPY and Osuma Henkilöstöpalvelut, where the growing Savilahti area is at the heart with thousands of students and jobs. Pondi connects talents and jobs easily, interestingly and flexibly.

Talent, get to know the employers in the area extensively before you go after your dream job. Pondi enables employments of different lengths so that you can get to know different employers or work tasks already during your studies. You will get good employer contacts and diverse working life skills even before you are ready to commit to a longer-term employment relationship.

Available grants for students of UEF and UEF's Open positions

There is a listing of grants availbale for students of the University of Eastern Finland at UEF's webpage.

You'll find a list of Open Positions at UEF HERE.

Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland (ITAK)

Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland (ITAK) welcomes You to see the performances at ITAK stage located in the centre of Kuopio, right next to the Kuntolaakso swimming pool and police station.

Coming up on March - Meri Pajunpää & work group: As It Burns

Meri Pajunpää is a dance artist working in Finland and Belgium. She accompanied her international work group to bring their new piece As It Burns to ITAK stage in Kuopio. This contemporary dance performance dealing with movement, belonging to somewhere and blurring of one’s own root resonates with anyone who has ever travelled.

The performance includes spoken word in multiple languages but understanding of the text is not essential.

Performances at ITAK stage (Suokatu 42/2, wooden building next to swimming pool) on:

• 3rd of March at 7pm
• 4th of March at 7pm
• 5th of March at 7pm

We also provide special price tickets for groups. Student price tickets for a group of minimum 10 persons are 8 € per person. Book tickets or ask more itak@itak.fi

See you at the ITAK stage!

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