UEF will provide each new student, both Finnish and international, with a student tutor. Student tutoring is mainly available at the beginning of the semesters. If you are an exchange student or a degree seeking student in our Bachelor’s or a Master’s programme, your student tutor will contact you by e-mail a few weeks before the semester begins. Therefore, please make sure that you have given us your valid email address which you keep checking regularly. When your student tutor contacts you, please reply to the message so that they know you received it. And as soon as you know your arrival details, please inform your student tutor about your travel plans.
The student tutors are not staff members but they are UEF students (both Finnish and international) themselves and they have volunteered to help new students to get started with their life and studies in Joensuu/Kuopio. The tutors are trained by UEF to support the new students. Tutors are also an excellent source of tips for studying and about other aspects of student life. Please note that student tutors have their own duties, schedules and studies as well and therefore they are not available at all times.
When you have arrived in Finland, you will meet your tutor(s) and other students in your tutoring group. Your student tutor will meet you on arrival if agreed.
Academic advising
Note that if you wish to have information on the courses or on the content of the studies, please contact the study coordinators of the programmes.
UEF contact person for student tutoring for international students
Kirsi Konttinen, International Mobility Services, kirsi.konttinen@uef.fi, tel. +358 29 44 5817