A student’s everyday life cannot revolve around exam books and lecture notes alone. Leisure activities are important for everyone. For us in the Students’ Union, the well-being of the student is also important. In addition to our own leisure activities, we inform members about the events and hobbies of third parties and the Students’ Union, where possible.
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
The key areas of the Student Union’s international activities are international tutoring and taking the international perspective into account in the protection of students’ interests. Students’ Union also works to help foreign students to adapt to Finland and to advance domestic internationalization of Finnish students. The aim of international activities is to promote the integration of foreign students and to enable Finnish students to internationalize from home country.
INTERNATIONALIZING FROM FINLAND
- Participate in course held in some other than your own native language
- Join CLINT or apply for other organizations for the role of the international affairs representative
- Attend language club
- Get involved in TAMK’s friendship programme, where you get an international student as your friend.
- Apply for international tutoring!
Tamko trains international tutors, who tutor exchange students incoming to Tampere University of Applied sciences, and degree tutors, who tutor foreign students of degree programs in English in co-operation with peer tutors. Tutors aim to help students in a foreign environment in TAMK and Tampere. International tutoring is an excellent way to improve one’s language proficiency and to meet new friends around the globe. International tutor is often the first connection exchange student has with Finland.
CLINT (Club International Tampere)
Club International Tampere (CLINT) is a sub-organization of Tamko. The main mission of CLINT is to enhance the co-operation between Finnish students and exchange students who come to study in Tampere University of Applied Scienses.
CLINT organizes a variety of events, trips and other activities to help foreign students with their adaptation to Finnish culture with other internationally-minded Finnish students.
Follow CLINT from their social media: @tamkclint
Survival Kit
Tamko and CLINT lend Survival Kits, which contain basic items such as kitchen utensils and bed linen into a student flat for exchange period.
The items in the Survival Kit are used, (except bed sheets, they are brand new for everyone) but fully cleaned. The whole idea is that since exchange students stay for only a short time, they don’t need to buy brand-new kitchen utensils for just half a year — only to throw them away afterward or worry about selling or recycling them.
So the Survival Kit is supposed to assist exchange students in TAMK to settle in Tampere easier: pick up the kit and return it once you leave. Nature will thank you!
This Survival Kit it is ONLY for TAMK exchange students. If you study in Tampere University then this Kit is not for you.
KIT CONTENTS
Coffee mug (2), Drinking glass (2), Dinner plate (2), Bread plate (2), Deep plate (2), Fork (2), Knife (2), Spoon (2), Teaspoon (2), Potholder (2), Cutting knife, Spatula, Ladle, Frying pan, Cooking pot, Cooking pot lid, Kitchen towel, Plastic bowl, Cutting board, Storage box
+ Bed sheet*, Blanket*, Blanket cover*, Pillow*, Pillowcase*
*Please DO NOT RETURN bed sheet, blanket, blanket cover, pillow or pillowcase. Those are brand new and after you use they won’t be reused.
The price for the Survival Kit:
Tamko members: 50 € + 50 € refundable deposit fee = 100 €
Non-member: 60 € + 40 € refundable deposit fee = 100 €
If you are staying longer than one semester, you will be charged 30 € (Tamko members) / 40 € (non-member).
The deposit will be refunded after returning the whole Survival Kit unbroken and clean back to the Tamko’s office before the last return date. If something is missing, broken or dirty when returning the Survival Kit, the deposit will not be refunded fully or at all.
SPORTs
SportUni – Joint sports services of the Tampere Universities
With the SportUni fee of your own university you are entitled to use the sports services in all campuses at TAMK and TAU. The sports opportunities include the gyms, group exercise classes, courses and ball games. Additionally individual sports services are offered.
The SportUni fee is paid according to the practices of both universities. The fee can be paid separately for each semester or for the entire year. The sports fee is paid at the university where you are studying. After the payment you can use the services at your own campus, and after having requested the access rights you can use the services also at the two other campuses.
The access rights to the other universities must be requested personally from the university in question. Please, have the payment receipt, ID and your student card with you. The access card must be scanned by the reader each time you visit the sports facilities.
Sports Equipment for borrow
Tamko has a variety of sports equipment that you can borrow for free from our office. The equipment must be returned the next day but you can discuss about the duration of the borrowing. Until then the renter is in responsible for the items.
List of equipment for borrow:
- Table tennis rackets and balls
- Tennis rackets and balls
- Badminton rackets and shuttlecocks
- Basketballs
- Volleyballs
- Footballs
- Futsal balls
- Golf balls
- American football
- Rugby ball
- Floorball sticks and balls
- Floorball goalie equipment
- Frisbee / Ultimate discs
- Kick Pads
- Jump rope
- Darts (regular and darts)
- Pesäpallo (Finnish baseball) bats, balls and gloves
- Skates
- Mölkky
Wishes and hopes on new/additional sports equipment can be sent to office@tamko.fi.
