Year tags are now available
All students who have paid their AYY membership fee for the academic year 2019–2020 can pick up a year tag from August 1st, 2019 on. The year tags can be picked in following locations:
Harald Herlin Learning Centre, temporary service point (Otaniementie 9)
Open: August 19th – September 6th 2019, Mon – Fri 12:00 noon – 18:00
Otaniemi services office (Otakaari 11)
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 12:00 noon – 16:00
Read the payment instructions for AYY membership fee here. Please note that all year tags will only be applied directly on student cards to avoid any misuse.
Digital student card
Frank has renewed the student card pricing and the digital student card is now free. If you don’t have the app yet, join the tens of thousands of other students and download the Frank App here: www.frank.fi/lataa!
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Tempaus – harnessing community for advocacy work
This autumn, Aalto University Student Union will organise Tempaus after a break of several years. Kaikkien käsien jälki Tempaus (“A Collective Handprint”) takes place on the hundredth anniversary of the engineer with a sturdy beard, a mythical figure that supervises the actions of engineering students. In his article, Juuso Määttä delves into the history of Tempaus.
Government cuts put a stop to the construction of student housing
We are shocked by the recent cuts of the Finnish Government which put student housing and its construction at stake. In its session on spending limits, the Government made significant cuts to the special group investment grants for student housing construction, which makes the commencement of already planned housing projects in the capital region uncertain and complicates the housing situation for students as well as the housing activities of the Aalto University Student Union (AYY).
Changes to deposits in the autumn
There will be changes to the deposit policy. In the future, deposits will not be collected from all tenants, but only in certain situations.