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The self-study facilities are available for quiet studying and group work. The university’s guidelines relating to safety and hygiene must be followed in all facilities.
Access badge
Access to the 24/7 self study facilities is with an access badge only. You can apply the Access badge by using this online form. If you already have an Access badge, you can apply for extending the right of access. You will be notified by email when the access badge can be retrieved from key services or the permissions on an existing badge have been updated. The access badge gives you access to the university’s common self-study facilities and exam rooms for the duration of your study right.
Campus Libraries 24/7 Self-Study facilities
Both campuses have self-study spaces in connection with campus libraries, which are available to you with an access badge. In Joensuu, these spaces are in the Carelia building and in Kuopio in the Snellmania building. Meeting and group work facilities in the lower lobby of the Snellmania building are not 24/7 spaces of the library. These facilities can be reserved during the opening hours in accordance with the students’ reservation rights. More information in Intra / Facility reservation guidelines for students
NOTE! You must have a UEF library card (Tuudo or traditional plastic card) to be able to apply for an access badge for the library. When you receive a library card, you also commit to complying with the library’s rules of use. The rules of use also apply to 24/7 use.
During self-service hours, you can use the library’s loan and return machines, computers and multifunction devices for printing, copying and scanning, as well as utilize the library’s facilities. Check the opening hours and more information from the library’s website (opens in a new tab). We will inform about exceptions in the UEF 24/7 Library | Library -Viva Engage group (opens in a new tab), in the library’s premises and on the library’s home page in Current Announcements.
The self-study facilities in Joensuu and Kuopio campuses
JOENSUU
Carelia
Self-study facility, Oppari, Carelia building: 1st floor. Please check the opening hours.
Carelia group work rooms
The teamwork rooms can be used for working together or for private studying. All rooms are equipped with a large monitor.
Reservations for teamwork rooms can be made in Tuudo or Peppi. Reservations max 3hrs/student/day.
The room identifiers:
- CK242 (prev. 2A1)
- CK243 (prev. 2A2)
- CA245 (prev. 2A3)
- CK247 (prev. 2A4)
- CK248 (prev. 2A5)
- CK249 (prev. 2A6)
In addition to the listed group work rooms, there are more of them with different sizes on the 3rd floor: 3A1, 3A2, 3A3, 3A4, 3A5, 3A6, 3B1, 3B2 and 3B3. The rooms can be used without reservation whenever they are available.
Computer labs
The following computer labs are available during building´s opening hours if there is no scheduled teaching in them:
| Building | Room |
| Agora | AG211 |
| Aurora II | Atrium (KTL) |
| Borealis | BOR102 |
| Futura | F226c, F109 |
| Natura | N202, N111, N114 |
Other facilities
Aurora-building
Atrium is located on the ground floor of Aurora II building, in the Carelian Institute, entrance B. Atrium is intended for quiet studying – it is possible to work alone or in a group. The room is equipped with computers, and it has spaces for relaxation. Printing is not possible. Open from Monday to Friday 7:45 am until 4:15 pm.
Natura-building
Self-study N110 is located near stairwell E on the ground floor, entrance A.
The space is intended for quiet studying alone or in a group. Equipment: sofas, adjustable tables, no computers, no printing possibilities. Open during hours of the building (opens in a new tab, requires log in).
Taitola-building
Taitola includes facilities for craft science students for their independent work. The facilities include wood, metal, electronics, stone and plastic workshops, and textile materials facilities such as sewing, dyeing and yarn studios. Only students who have received security training can apply for access to the premises.
24/7 classes
Computer classes N111 and N114 are open 24/7 and they are situated in the Natura building.
KUOPIO
Canthia 2nd floor
Self-study facility, Oppari, Canthia building 2nd floor. Please check the opening hours.
The study space in the front is intended for casual studying – it is possible to work alone or in a group, and discussions with others are allowed. The space is divided by the service desk that offers help during opening hours.
The same space offers two accessible working stations that have height-adjustable desks. They are located so that it is easy for the person using the station to ask for help from the service desk when necessary.
The spaces in the back are meant for quiet independent study. These stations are divided with screens.
Printers are located next to the service desk.
Canthia teamwork rooms, 2nd floor
The teamwork rooms are open to students.
There are two kinds of teamwork rooms. The bigger ones, have a large monitor, a computer, video conference equipment, digital tv, and a flip chart. The smaller ones are equipped with a computer, a scanner, a large computer desk and two smaller group stations. Reservations for group study rooms can be made in Tuudo or Peppi. Reservations max 3hrs/student/day.
The room identifiers:
- CA2310 (ent. Teamwork_1_Canthia)
- CA2311 (ent. Teamwork_2_Canthia)
- CA2312 (ent. Teamwork_3_Canthia)
- CA2316 (ent. Teamwork_4_Canthia)
- CA2317 (ent. Teamwork_5_Canthia)
- CA2318 (ent. Teamwork_6_Canthia)
- CA2319 (ent. Teamwork_7_Canthia)
Read more about room reservations in UEF Intra (the link opens to a new window).
Canthia 1st floot
Rooms 1177/1, 1177/2, 1176 ja 1175 for selfstudy and groupwork, Canthia building, 1st floor. There is wifi for using your own laptop. Rooms are open on weekdays from 8 am to 6 pm. See location.
Computer labs
The computer labs CA103, CA104 ja CA105 (Canthia building 1st floor), MD101 (Mediteknia building 1st floor) are available if there is no scheduled teaching in them. See the opening hours.
24/7 classes
Computer lab MD101 in Mediteknia building can be used for quiet studying during the academic year from 6 pm until 08 am and during days if there is no scheduled teaching in the class. Otherwise the class can be accessed 24/7. If the main entrance of Mediteknia is closed, it is possible to access the side door (entrance 2) of the building.
Taitostudia
Taitostudia is located in Medistudia building, 5th floor. It is a place place for practicing clinical skills using phantoms and other equipment. Please check for more information on Taitostudia (in Finnish, opens in a new tab).
Accessible Workstation
The university has accessible workstations on both campuses for students’ independent study use, supporting cognitive and physical accessibility. These workstations are intended for self-study use by students who are sensitive to sensory stimuli. The workstations are quiet and equipped with 4K monitors, electrically adjustable desks, and additional lighting. Additionally, the workstations are easily accessible. The 4K monitor provides a sharp image, adjustable brightness and contrast, and ergonomic design.
Reservable Workstations
- Joensuu Campus: Carelia 162 (EXAM2), 1st floor. Available 24/7.
- Kuopio Campus: Canthia CA206, 2nd floor. Available during Oppari service hours, check opening hours. NOTE! To be launched in spring 2025.
Reservation Instructions These spaces also function as exam rooms, so reservations must always be made by sending an email to oppitupa@uef.fi. Reservations for weekdays must be made by the previous day, and reservations for Joensuu campus for Sat-Sun must be made by Friday at 3 PM.
Freely Available Workstation In the quiet area of the Joensuu campus library, there is one workstation equipped with a 4K monitor, electrically adjustable desk, and additional lighting. This workstation does not need to be reserved separately.
Every member of the university community is responsible for managing the documents and other data they handle, maintaining information security and data protection, and complying with the university’s information security rules and guidelines.
The information security rules can be found on the intra (login required). Please familiarize yourself with the rules and instructions for data processing.
Everyone must report any observed anomalies in information security, misuse related to information security, or suspected security breaches. Please report immediately. If you suspect misuse of your university credentials, change your password immediately, and contact the IT Service Desk of Digital Services.
Information Security Threats
Information security threats target not only technical devices and software but also their users. Recognizing threats helps in preventing them.
Phishing and Scams
Phishing aims to trick the target into revealing confidential information, such as login credentials or banking details, or may be used to install malware on the user’s device. Phishing can occur via email, text message, phone call, or QR code. It can be targeted, with personalized content and familiar sender names. Messages often have an urgent, threatening, or helpful tone. Scams may aim for direct financial gain, constituting fraud.
Malware
Malware, such as viruses, worms, or trojans, is designed to cause harm. It can disrupt usage, steal information, or bypass security mechanisms. Malware exploits technical vulnerabilities or user actions.
Physical Threats
Devices containing information, such as computers, phones, and USB drives, are vulnerable to theft, loss, malfunction, and damage.
Protection Against Threats
Username, Password, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Your username is personal, and you are responsible for its use. Never share your username or password. Choose a password that is easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. Use a different password for services outside the university.
In addition to a password, multi-factor authentication protects your data. Do not approve login requests unless you initiated them. It is also advisable to enable MFA for services outside the university.
Data Materials
As a user, you are responsible for ensuring that important data is not lost. Ensure adequate file backups.
Use university-provided services for storing study-related files. USB drives are easily damaged or forgotten. If you find a USB drive, do not connect it to your computer—deliver it to Digital Services. Be careful when sharing files and ensure you share the correct files with the correct people. Refer to the instructions for data processing (login required) on the intranet.
Use your UEF email primarily for study-related communication. Do not open email attachments if you are unsure of the sender. Attachments may contain malware or lead to malicious websites.
Always check the actual destination of a link in an email or QR code before clicking. Learn to distinguish legitimate web addresses from those used by scammers. Avoid clicking links in messages—type the address directly into your browser instead.
Beware of scam and phishing messages. Carefully verify the sender’s email address. Confirm financial transactions, for example, by calling. If a website opened from a link asks for your credentials or bank details, ensure the site is trustworthy. If unsure, ask for help.
Always send confidential information encrypted, for example, using secure email.
Devices
Protect your computer with a firewall, antivirus software, and backups. Install security updates promptly. Also protect your smartphone and mobile devices with a lock code. Only install apps from official app stores or other trusted sources, and only install apps you actually need.
Multifunctional printers
You can print, copy and scan with the multifunctional printers found in Oppari self-study space, libraries and computer lecture rooms. The multifunctional devices are located in Joensuu in Carelia, Agora, Borealis, Educa, Futura, Metria, and Natura campus buildings, and in Kuopio in Oppari in Canthia and Snellmania Library: see Joensuu campus map ja Kuopio campus map (links open in a new tab).
Printing queue name
All shared printers in UEF are connected to a network. When you need to print to paper, you should select a proper printing queue name. You will find the following printing queue in the Windows Printers listing:
- UEF Secure Print
Printing via email
You can also print small documents from your computer or mobile device via email as follows: send an email with the file to be printed as attached, from your UEF email address to the following address: kmext-print@uef.fi. Do not add an email subject or any text to the email body/message, but only add the To: address as follows: kmext-print@uef.fi, and attach the file to be printed to the email message.
However, printing via email is not recommended for printing long lecture notes, books or scientific articles, due to a big file size and special characters present in the file. These types of files should be printed by opening them first at an Oppari/UEF computer and printing them to the correct printing queue, being UEF Secure Print.
Fast printer login
Only you yourself have access to your own printing queue. Therefore, you need to login to a printer using the short version of your UEF username, meaning your username without the @uef.fi suffix.
UEF shared printers are equipped with RFID chip scanners that streamline the logging-in process. You can associate your UEF username and password with a student card, debit/credit card or any other card, electronic key that has an RFID chip. Associating a card with a printer does not harm the card in any way. You can create such an association by first scanning your card/electronic key with a printer’s RFID scanner, before entering your UEF username and password to the printer’s login screen. If your login attempt is successful, the association is completed and henceforth you can log in just by scanning your associated card/electronic key/mobile device at a RFID scanner.
See step-by-step printing instructions (pdf).
Prices
There are two types of print balance: virtual balance and purchased balance. Students in degree-leading programs (Bachelor, Master, Licentiate, Doctor) and exchange students receive virtual balance of 9 euros for one semester at a time. Your virtual balance is always updated to 9 euros on 16.9. and 16.1. when you have registered for attendance for that semester. Any unused print quota will not be transferred to the next semester.
Black-and-white/grayscale prints and copies cost: 0,10€ / page (A4 or A3 page size).
Color prints and copies cost: 0,20€ / page (A4 or A3 page size).
Scanning is free of charge.
You can add printing balance from https://printing.uef.fi. Login with your UEF username and password. Do not use @uef.fi suffix after the username.
For more instructions, visit e-services. Select Tips and tricks from the menu and go to the section Printing, copying and scanning.
Note! You can buy more printing credit only online.
Troubleshooting
If you can't find the printing queue on an Oppari workstation, try to install it from
Software Center ”UEF Secure Print / Konica Minolta”.
If you can see the queue, and still cannot print, please contact IT servicedesk.
Make sure you have sent your document to the right printer, i.e. that you have chosen the correct printer or printing queue in the printing window of the program you're using. Read the detailed instructions for printing at the beginning of this page.
If you have a printing budget (prints are liable to charges) make sure that your printing account has enough balance to print the document. See the prices and instructions on adding money to your printing account above.
Please check that you did not turn off the computer from which you added the document to the printing queue. The computer must be on whilst printing. You can sign out from the computer, but do not shut it down completely.
Make sure that the paper hasn't jammed in the printer. If the paper has jammed inside the printer, there is a notification on the printer's screen. Follow the instructions on the screen to remove the paper from the printer.
If the paper hasn't jammed, there is a compatibility problem between the printer and the computer program. The printer hasn't been able to decode the document sent by the program. Solution:
- if the document isn't in PDF form, save it as a PDF by printing the document with Microsoft Print to PDF or Foxit Reader PDF Printer. These are virtual PDF printers that will save the document as a PDF file on the hard drive and ask the user to type a new PDF file name. Take note of the folder where you save the PDF file, and the name of the new file.
- open the recently created PDF document in Adobe Reader: open File Explorer with the keyboard shortcut Windows + E; open the folder where the file is located; activate the file; choose "Open with..." / "Avaa sovelluksessa..." by right-clicking or from the context menu; choose Adobe Reader.
- press Ctrl + P to open the Adobe Reader printing window. Click Advanced and when the Advanced Print Setup dialogue box opens, activate the Print As Image setting.
This is about a compatibility problem between Adobe Reader and the printer. The Print As Image setting cannot be used with electronically fillable PDF forms. The solution is to open the filled form in the Edge browser and print it from there.
- open File Explorer with the keyboard shortcut Windows + E; open the folder where the file is located; activate the file; choose "Open with..." / "Avaa sovelluksessa..." by right-clicking or from the context menu; choose Microsoft Edge.
- press Ctrl + P to open the Microsoft Edge printing window. Press Enter to begin printing.
Advanced printing features
You can find 2-sided printing from the first tab of the controller's user interface. From the 1-sided/2-sided/Booklet menu choose 2-sided printing (Kaksipuolinen tulostus).
From the Binding Location (Sidontakohta) menu you can choose how your print is read. Here Long Edge (Pitkä reuna) means that the 2-sided print is read like a book by turning the paper with the long edge first. Short Edge (Lyhyt reuna) means that it is read like a calendar by turning the paper with the short edge first.
The icon on the left shows how your document will be printed. If you don't need other finishing functions, accept your choices by clicking OK.
You can choose your print to be stapled. From the Staple/Collate/Group menu choose Staple + Collate (Nidonta & Lajittelu).
You can also choose the placement of the staple separately. As default it will be on the top left corner of your document. If you want to change the setting, choose Staple Position (Niitin paikka).
You can also print your document as a booklet. Then the machine will place the pages side by side on an A4 or A3 paper, folds it, and staples the papers with two staples in the middle, if your printer's finisher supports this stapling option.
The document can have a maximum of 60 pages. If there are more pages, the finisher will not fold the papers or staple them in the middle, but it will place the pages in the correct order like a booklet.
From the 1-sided/2-sided/Booklet menu in the middle of the first tab of the controller, choose Booklet (Vihkotulostus). From the Saddle Stitch Settings (Satulanidonnan asetukset) menu, choose Fold+Saddle Stitch (Taitto+Satulanidonta). Without this option activated the document will be printed with a booklet layout but without middle stitching.
Put the material that is suitable for the printer to the bypass tray (small hatch at the right end of the machine). On the touch screen the machine asks for the paper size. Choose the right size, for example A4. Press Next. Tell the type of the material in the bypass tray and press OK. It is important to input the thickness of the material/paper correctly, otherwise it will get stuck inside the printer.
In your computer program, move to the printing menu and then to the printer properties. Choose to show the printer configuration on the left by clicking the small printer icon at the top of the page. Click the bypass on the graphic printer icon. Accept by clicking OK and begin printing.