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Think Company: meet other bright minded students and network!
In April 2013, the University of Helsinki opened the Helsinki Think Company space for entrepreneurs together with EnterpriseHelsinki and the Helsinki Business and Science Park.
Helsinki Think Company is a meeting place for new kind of entrepreneurship in the middle of the city, where students, researchers and entrepreneurial-minded can build networks. It is a communal workspace, scene of events and a passage to service. Think Co. is a new platform for creating business out of ideas steaming from the university.
How can I join?
Well, that’s easy! Helsinki Think Company is at Vuorikatu 5. Just go to meet other bright minded students and network.
Helsinki Think company is a meeting place for entrepreneurs or people who are interested in becoming an entrepreneur. Do you need support? Or do you need a team for your business idea? Well, then you have found the right place, because Think company offers you support together with specialists and mentors. If you want to know more, please visit at Think Company or send e-mail to ira.levaaho@helsinki.fi.
Want to know more about the events at Think Company? Check out the Facebook page!
UniSport invites you to check out both new and traditional sports and fitness activities
A world-class university needs to have world-class sport services. UniSport is a directorate commonly owned by University of Helsinki and Aalto University who provides a wide range of high quality health and wellness services, activities for students, staff and the wider community across our six campuses. A range of membership options and casual visit possibility are available with qualified and experienced fitness professionals to assist you in keeping active and having fun while studying or working at the University of Helsinki.
Our slogan is “more than exercise” and that is truly so. Our services were ranked third best University sport service in the world according to ISB survey (International Student Barometer, 2010). I think it is safe to say that we offer something for everyone who is interested in exercising in some way or another and we offer inspiration to those who have not taken that step yet. Our big goal besides making people move is to foster a social environment within the University. Our facilities, classes and events are a great platform to meet new people in a relaxed atmosphere. The only suits we wear are track suits.
You do not have to worry about the weird sounding Finnish language either. Everybody speaks English if necessary and some of the classes and courses are even held in English. UniSport warmly welcomes you to Helsinki. Please show up at our our service desk in any of the six campuses to register and get started!
For further information have a look at our website www.unisport.fi.
Janne Pakarinen
Head of Sports
Erasmus exchange applications still being processed
Please note that we are still processing Erasmus exchange applications and documents at the International Exchange Services. As soon as we have checked your documents, you will get an email that your documents have been received, in case you have uploaded or sent all of the required documents. You should receive this email by Friday, please try to be patient until that!
After this your application will be sent to the Faculty for evaluation. If your application is approved at the Faculty, you will receive your Acceptance Letter by e-mail. Acceptance information is usually available around mid-June or after that.
International Exchange Services
I have found out my concrete reasons of why I chose Finland
Before I came to Finland, I was constantly asked by my friends and colleagues with their puzzling expressions “Why Finland?”. Even after my arrival, the same question seems to be the fixed starter of every conversation with new people. Frankly speaking, I hate this question, because I don’t know what to say; or because my reason sounds very unreal and unconvincing – that is about chemical reaction.
I heard of Finland from my middle school geography class for the first time when I was 14. Then this word hibernated in my little world for more than half decade until I got my first Nokia phone on my 20th birthday. Then this disconnection went on for another half decade until I browsed an old friend’s blog. She studied her bachelor in Finland and the blog was about her Finnish friends and her own experiences in Finland. Well, the articles in her blog are plain, no passionate recommendation or exaggeration. The pictures are also cool in tone. But there emerged this chemical reaction. My intuition told me that it would be the place I want to go. Then I gave up my original plan of studying in France and concentrated totally on the application for the University of Helsinki. And finally I arrived here in Helsinki in late autumn last year. After going through silver-coated winter and now at the time of enjoying the warm sunshine and looking forward to the enchanting legendary summer, I have found out my concrete reasons of “Why Finland?”. Continue reading “I have found out my concrete reasons of why I chose Finland”
One of the best decisions I ever made in my life
Hi, I’m Reza. I am a master student at the University of Helsinki. I came to Finland last year and started my stay here with the Helsinki Summer School. That was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life; everybody was happy and excited, we had a lot of fun there. It was not only an adventurous beginning for my student life in Helsinki but it also gave me, a newcomer, a marvelous view about Finland.
The very advantageous idea was that I joined the HSS Finnish course. I had no clue of Finnish at that time; I had never heard anyone speaking Finnish nor did I know anything about Finno-Ugric languages. Disappointingly I had read on the Internet about it: “hardest language ever”! However, you cannot imagine, after three weeks we all could manage short conversations in Finnish! A few everyday use sentences might not be very much in learning a language but it helps you in many ways, at least you don’t think like you are an absolute stranger who attends an English program, speaks English to everybody and has no connection to the Finnish speaking life. Continue reading “One of the best decisions I ever made in my life”
Ask from our International Students Ambassadors!
Want to ask about studying at the University of Helsinki and living in Helsinki from our International Student Ambassadors? The best way to learn about University of Helsinki is from the students who are here now. Our Ambassadors will share their insights and experiences on studies, career and life in Helsinki.
Ask from International Student Ambassadors Day 23.5.2013, New Students FB-page!
Btw. Please notice that ambassadors won’t be answering questions about admissions. For admissions info, please check out our website: http://www.helsinki.fi/admissions/index.html
The application time for incoming exchange students ended on 15.05.2013!
The University of Helsinki received from Europe nearly 700 Erasmus and Nordplus applications and from other continents in various programs altogether over 100 applications for the autumn 2013 or for the whole academic year 2013/2014! We want to thank you all for applying! Continue reading “The application time for incoming exchange students ended on 15.05.2013!”
Meet our students! Matthew Mitchell at the 2013 Boston Marathon
Marathon days are by nature triumphant. They require a commitment from all who participate, their payment first for qualifying, and then for finishing. I spent my past 6 months training amongst the snowy trails in Helsinki and Siilinjarvi, preparing for the 2013 Boston Marathon. I have experienced Finland’s winter wonderlands and run and skied in -22 degree (celsius) weather, in forests and on the Baltic Sea. Continue reading “Meet our students! Matthew Mitchell at the 2013 Boston Marathon”
Apply for the Get Your Master’s Thesis Written! Grant
The application time for the Spring round 2013 of the Get Your Master’s Thesis Written! Grants is on until the 22nd of May 2013.
The aim of the grant is to promote the finalizing of the master’s thesis by providing for an intensive thesis writing period at one of the field stations of the University. The grant is meant for those students of the University of Helsinki that are close to the end of their thesis work. The field stations are located in Hyytiälä, Kilpisjärvi, Lammi, Tvärminne and Värriö. The grants from this application round can be used during June-November 2013.
For more information go to: FLAMMA (flamma.helsinki.fi):
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