Tamko Topics is a weekly newsletter of The Students’ Union of Tampere University of Applied Sciences.
English Summary
1. Changes in Tamko operations due to Coronavirus
2. Enroll for international tutoring 2 – 27 March
3. Municipal elections are just around the corner – now is your time to speak up!
4. Latest updates on the coronavirus
5. SportUni closed until further notice
6. Tolu’s weekly sports shift 17th of March is CANCELLED
1. Changes in Tamko operations due to Coronavirus
We respect the Finnish Government’s recommendation to avoid physical contact. Therefore our office is temporarily closed until 29th March as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. We are providing more information about the office closure later. However, if you need to fetch your student card, to return your Survival Kit or if there’s some other service needs, you can visit our office by contacting us beforehand via phone (+358 44 382 6561) or email (office(at)tamko.fi).
Tamko’s Board, Council and employees are working normally, either remotely or at the office. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us via our website chat, social media channels, email or phone during weekdays from 9am to 4pm.
Finnish Government and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, in Finnish) have given a recommendation to cancel all large and small gatherings and events until the end of May. Due to this, we’ve decided to cancel all our upcoming events for this spring like Tamko Loppumetri, Tamko’s evening, the Week of Promoting Students’ Interests and our first of May events. Tutor trainings will be organized remotely. Please stay tuned for further information.
2. Enroll for international tutoring 2 – 27 March
Next autumn there will be a lot of new exchange students coming to TAMK. Would you like to be here welcoming them? Now it’s time to register for the international tutor trainings and be a part of Tamko’s big happy tutoring family.
International tutors are helping our incoming exchange students. They take care that exchange students adapt to TAMK and Finnish student life. International tutoring will give you a bunch of nice experiences and improve your language skills.
Student’s Union Tamko will train new international tutors remotely on Wednesday 15th of April and Tuesday 21st of April. Please stay tuned for possible changes.
International tutoring also adds up your ECTS credits. When the course is done, you’ll also get an extra point when applying to exchange studies. You’ll also get a mark to your Tursaspassi Passport when enrolling for the trainings.
3. Municipal elections are just around the corner – now is your time to speak up!
Tamko and TREY’s joint group for urban advocacy, Group 35 000, has kicked off again and started to plan the municipal election platform for 2021.
For the platform to genuinely represent students in Tampere, all students of Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences have a chance from the get-go to influence the themes that the platform contains.
It’s easy to influence the municipal election platform! Instructions: Like the objectives that you find central or propose new ones. Group 35 000 will prepare a platform draft with the help of the proposals, and the final platform will be moved to the Tamko and TREY’s councils in the autumn.
Let’s make sure that Tampere remains Finland’s most student-friendly city!
4. Latest updates on the coronavirus
Tampere Universities are actively monitoring the coronavirus situation and will provide updates on a regular basis. You’ll find all the current information, instructions and recommendations from TUNI intranet. Please keep an eye on intranet and updates on this bulletin.
The most recent information is that teaching at TAMK will be arranged using alternative means such as digital learning environments and online media, starting from Monday 16 March. Each study field has its own action plan and will inform students directly via email. Teaching that is not suitable for distance-learning and is vital considering the progress of the studies can be arranged in smaller groups at campus facilities.
5. SportUni closed until further notice
SportUni services are closed until further notice. All our three Sport Centres (City Centre, Hervanta and Kauppi) are closed from 14 Mar 2020 so far. This is the precaution to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
We will announce further information later. Questions: sportuni(at)tuni.fi. Questions about the coronavirus situation: korona(at)tuni.fi.
6. Tolu’s weekly sports shift 17th of March is CANCELLED
Due to the ongoing situation with coronavirus, Tolu’s drop-in sports shift on Tuesday 17th is CANCELLED.
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