Tamko Topics is a weekly newsletter of The Students’ Union of Tampere University of Applied Sciences.
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1. Tamko Council Elections 2019
2. Tamko Tursajaiset 11 September
3. Tamko office pop ups at Mediapolis and Proakatemia
4. Tamko’s autumn campaign- win a 100€ S-group gift card!
5. Tolu’s weekly sports shift 10 September
6. Embrace your library during opening week
7. PUBG Finnish Student Championship 19 October
8. Join AIESEC Tampere!
1. Tamko Council Elections 2019
Tampere University of Applied Sciences’ Council Elections are held on 23 October – 6 November 2019. 21 members are elected to the council. All students who have paid Tamko membership payment and registered themselves as an attending (present) to TAMK are eligible to vote in council elections. Electronic voting starts on 23rd of October and ends 6th November. Ballot box voting is held on 6th November.
All who are eligible to vote can also stand as a candidate. (Please notice that all council meetings are held in Finnish). One can stand as a candidate on 18th September – 9th October 2019. In order to become a candidate, you need to fill out an electronic candidate notification via Tamko’s website or a paper form at Tamko’s office. You’ll also need to sign up for a candidate list provided by your student association or some other list provider.
Council elections are held as a proportional open list voting where a voter is also voting for a candidate’s list. The Council’s assembly is determined by popularity of lists. If you cannot find a suitable list, you can also establish your own!
The Council (edustajisto in Finnish), also known as edari, is like Tamko’s parliament. It holds the highest decision making power and has the final say about matters that concern The Students’ Union of Tampere University of Applied Sciences. The Council also decides for example about Tamko’s budget, financial statements, political guidelines and chooses students to Tamko’s Board and TAMK’s organs. Whether you are interested in influencing or improving students’ study experience, the Council might be your thing.
2. Tamko Tursajaiset 11 September
Tursajaiset is an annual initiation rite, where your status as a student in TAMK get’s it’s rightful measures. We begin our journey at 12 o’clock as a big parade from Kuntokatu 3 main square (Main Campus) and together we head to Keskustori, where you’ll have your rite of passage. From Keskustori the parade heads to the Golden Kingdom of Tursas, where you, recently assigned Tursa’s, have the opportunity to participate in a checkpoint competition in teams. (Pick a witty costume theme for your team as there’s also going to be a costume competition!)
The daytime event is free for all the new students, but the pre-sale tickets for the after party in Venue FL costs 5€ (7€ for non-members) or 7€ from door. If you happen to bring a “juice” bottle of your own, please make it plastic or aluminum one, Thank you!
All Tamko’s events are strictly free of harassment. We have trained contacts also at Tursajaiset, so if you face any kind of harassment during the event, please do contact hairintayhdyshenkilot(at)tamko.fi
3. Tamko office pop ups at Mediapolis and Proakatemia
Tamko organizes Tamko office pop ups at Mediapolis on 17 September, 22 October and 19 November and Proakatemia on 24 September, 29 October, 26 November. Pop up is open from 9AM – 1PM.
We’ll bring with us the study year stickers, overall patches and event tickets. If you want that we bring your student card to the pop up, please inform us about the matter well before (at least 2 days before!) via email: office(at)tamko.fi. Welcome to chat, have some coffee or tea and of course to rest on Solu’s sofas!
4. Tamko’s autumn campaign- win a 100€ S-group gift card!
Tamko has launched its traditional autumn campaign. This year we’re raffling off 5 pcs of 100€ S-group gift cards among Tamko members.
Two gift cards are raffled among new Tamko members who have applied with an electronic application form and paid for multi year membership and the other three gift cards among all members of Tamko whose membership is valid on 1st of October 2019. So now is a great time to become a Tamko member or get your membership payment done for this autumn!
5. Tolu’s weekly sports shift 10 September
Tolu organizes a 2-hour drop-in sports shift every Tuesday from 5PM – 7PM at TAMK’s sports hall. We’ll play a different sport each week and on next time it’s going to be floorball!
All TAMK students and staff are welcome to join, and there is no skill requirements. We just want to get you moving. We provide all the gear except for your sports attire and indoor playing shoes. You don’t need a SportUni membership in order to attend, just say to customer service desk that you’re coming to Tolu’s sport shift.
6. Embrace your library during opening week
During opening week of Tampere Universities 9 – 13 September, the library serves with full power and elation. All students and other users of the library, you’re welcome to visit us, check out and participate in our two competitions! By attending, you can get yourself a brand new overall badge of Tampere University Library.
Overall badge hunt: For the festive week, we’ve hidden our new overall badges in the library. Explore the library and find yours!
Guess the number of overall badges in a jar: Guess how many badges are in the jar at the library counter. You can also participate in the library’s Instagram or Facebook. For the prizes, we have reserved a stack of movie tickets, two of which will go to the right guess and the rest will be drawn between all participants.
You can also drop by or work, ask questions and get help during the festive week. If you don’t have time to visit us, you’ll always reach us via chat, email or phone. Welcome!
7. PUBG Finnish Student Championship 19 October
4Towers is organizing The Finnish Student championship of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds at 19.-20.10.2019. You can participate to the tournament online from home with your own computer. We have space for 20 teams and in the one team you have 4 players. Games starts saturday with 3 maps and ends sunday. The tournament is played on a computer.
Read all the rules from here. You can apply to the tournament from this link at 12.30 pm, 19.9.2019.
We going to stream all the games at 4Towers twitch channel and you can follow the competition at our social media channels. You can ask questions at our Discord channel or
with email 4towersgaming(at)gmail.com.
8. Join AIESEC Tampere!
Are you interested about developing your practical skills through multicultural teamwork? Do you think international networking is important?
AIESEC is a global youth-led organisation striving to achieve peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential by activating leadership qualities in young people. We activate leadership qualities by learning from practical experiences in challenging environments. If you got interested, AIESEC is just the place for you!
In AIESEC you get a chance to participate national and international conferences, our projects and internships abroad where you will get an opportunity to wide your network with our global partners. Our partners are for example United Nations, Accenture, Apple, Nokia, PWC, DHL, Electrolux and Plan International. Check for more information here.
AIESEC Tampere is educating new members to join our local activities! We have positions open for Marketing, Team Leaders/Project managers, Business to Customers and Business to Business sections. You don’t need to be student from these fields, or to have previous experience. It is enough that you have genuine interest to develop your skills!
To become a member, fill the form in here, latest on 15.9.2019 23.59 and we will contact you!
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