This term, the UEF Language Center is offering a Conversational Spanish course taught by our Colombian Intern.
If you are interested in practicing and improving your conversational skills in Spanish, interacting with native speakers and getting a taste of the Colombian Culture, join us in this fun immersion language experience. The course will be taught by a native Spanish speaker Jeison Fabian Díaz Hernández.
We have two options for our students:
KK00CZ65-3001 Joensuu: Conversational Spanish and Latin-American culture Held in person in Joensuu, starting on October 14th
KK00CZ65-3002 Joensuu, Kuopio: Conversational Spanish and Latin-American culture Taught online, starting on October 10th
The registration is now open on Peppi and it ends on Oct 21st.
The in-person course will take place on Fridays from 10–12 and the online one on Mondays from 16–18. You can find more information in Peppi.
¡Sean todos bienvenidos a nuestro curso! La clase está chévere.
How to communicate effectively in cross-cultural situations? Do you want to develop oral English skills and confidence in speaking English?
Join the Cross-cultural communication in professional encounters course (1 ECT) organized by the Language Centre.
In this course, there is a special focus on practicing language needed in customer/patient-practitioner interaction and the challenges of a multicultural work environment.
The course will be held 8 Nov–28 Nov at the Kuopio campus: 8.11. (13.15-14.45, room CA401) 10.11. (Independent study session) 17.11. (13.15-14.45, room CA500) 22.11. (12.15-13.45, room CA204) 23.11. 12.15.-13.45, room CA304) 28.11. (10.15.-11.45, room CA204)
Enrollment in Peppi with code KK00CT44-3001 Oct 28 at the latest. Please check also Language Centre Yammer for more information.
The course is primarily intended for students in international Master’s degree programmes. If there are places, students in international Bachelor degree programmes and exchange students are also welcome.
Please note that the course requires presence on Kuopio campus.
The aim of the survey is to obtain diverse information on students’ experiences and views on learning and studying in higher education. We hope that every higher education student will respond to the survey based on their own experiences of studying. Everyone’s answer is important.
The deadline for responding is 7.10.2022. Responding takes around 20-25 minutes. The survey is here.
Some of the answers may be used in the Evaluation of Government’s key projects for higher education 2017–2022. Once the evaluation has been completed, the responses will be archived, and they can be handed over for research use. The answers that will be archived will be anonymised. The results of the survey will be reported in a way that makes it impossible to identify individual respondents.
SYKETTÄ Sports Afternoon will be held on Wednesday 5th of October 2022 on Joensuu and Kuopio Campuses, in collaboration with the UEF, Karelia UAS and Savonia UAS. The sports afternoon begins at 12:15 pm, and there is no teaching in the afternoon.
SYKETTÄ Sports Services organizes the sports afternoon programme, but no SYKETTÄ sticker is required to participate. On sports afternoon, a wide variety of different exercise options are available both indoors and outdoors, and arranged by external partners. Some of them are free of charge, while others include a separate fee.
The sports afternoon program also includes all the classes on the SYKETTÄ sports calendar that day! To participate in classes and turns in sports calendar on sports afternoon, you don’t have to have a valid SYKETTÄ sticker, but you must be registered as a user and enroll on classes and turns.
The sports afternoon programme is now published! City-specific sports afternoon programs and enrollment schedules can be found on the following websites:
New narrative learning materials facilitate integration into Finnish society.
The University of Eastern Finland is reforming its provision of Finnish language education available to international students and staff. As of autumn 2022, learners can start their Finnish language studies already before arriving in Finland. The selection of courses has been expanded to cater to the needs of learners in the campus cities in Joensuu and Kuopio, as well as to the needs of learners taking courses remotely from abroad.
Studies in Finnish as a Second Language are nowadays included in nearly all Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees completed in English. According to Director Lauri Tolkki of the UEF Language Centre,the reform is a way for the university to strengthen the engagement of international experts with the region.
“In the past, it was sometimes difficult for people to get onto courses if their arrival in Finland was delayed. Now, learners can flexibly start building their language skills already before their other studies begin,” Tolkki says.
The learning materials used on Finnish language courses have also been renewed to form an entity that is both narrative and locally oriented. The characters appearing in the stories are in a similar phase of life and have similar everyday experiences as learners on the courses do. The learning materials that have been adapted to learners’ life situations create common ground and further facilitate integration. The stories are also a natural way to learn about everyday life in eastern Finland, about the campus cities, as well as about Finnish society and what working life in Finland is like.
“The reform has also enabled the development of more tailored solutions and materials for international members of the staff at the University of Eastern Finland. Similar narrative materials have previously been piloted, and further developed based on encouraging feedback, on courses aimed at European students in the YUFE Alliance, as well as on courses for university staff,” says Katri Niemi, University Teacher of Finnish.
The Language Centre offers studies in Finnish as a Second Language for complete beginners and up to level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). Niemi and University Lecturer Tapio Hokkanen, who have been developing the new materials, are also delighted about a new colleague, Elina Heimala, joining the Language Centre.
“It is great to be part of an innovative team that develops Finnish language education from the viewpoint of learners’ needs and initial situations. In the end, the adoption of a language and a culture boil down to a strengthened feeling of inclusion and integration,” Heimala says.
The reform has been supported by the university’s strategic funding.
“We’ve also prepared a placement test to facilitate learners’ choice of courses, and we’re currently working on materials that offer a sneak peek into the Finnish language,” Hokkanen says.
New teaching arrangements will be tested this academic year and courses will be further developed based on experiences and feedback received.
For further information, please contact:
Lauri Tolkki, Director of Language Centre, University of Eastern Finland, [email protected], tel. +358 50 308 1799
Starting from the academic year 2022–2023, the University of Eastern Finland offers a diverse and multidisciplinary minor on sustainable development, known as Studies for Sustainable Future. Available to all Bachelor’s, Master’s, doctoral and exchange students at the University of Eastern Finland, the minor brings together courses on sustainability from different disciplines, focusing on environmental issues and natural resources.
Studies for Sustainable Future offers students, regardless of their major, an excellent and comprehensive opportunity to deepen their understanding of issues relating to sustainability. The minor is highly topical, since the various sustainability challenges we are facing require rapid solutions that can be found through multidisciplinary collaboration. Furthermore, multidisciplinary expertise in sustainability-related issues is also in high demand on the labour market.
Studies for Sustainable Future includes courses from all faculties of the University of Eastern Finland. The diverse selection of courses available in the minor is an indication of the strong and diverse expertise of the University of Eastern Finland especially in themes relating to environmental issues and natural resources. The minor also encourages members of the teaching and research staff to engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, and to think about future needs for sustainability education and research.
Studies for Sustainable Future offers a wide range of courses
Studies for Sustainable Future can be completed as basic and subject studies. The broad selection of courses is divided into thematic modules offered in Finnish, and there is also one module available in English. The basic studies available in English include one introductory and mandatory course. In the English-language module, the basic studies can be completed online or otherwise remotely.
More detailed information about the course selection is available in Peppi. To learn more about Studies for Sustainable Future, please see: https://youtu.be/18R_Joxfq9Y
For further information, please contact:
University Lecturer Outi Ratamäki, head of the minor, University of Eastern Finland, [email protected], tel. +358 50 465 1592
It’s again the time of the year when new students come to campuses. You are so warmly welcome!
The general orientation for new international students begins on 1.9. at 12 Finnish time. You will find the whole general orientation programme in Kamu.
In addition to general sessions most deparments/school will have their own field-specific sessions.
On Thursday 1 September 2022, the Student and Learning Services’ customer service desk and phone service close already at 2:30 pm.
Current opening hours
From 1 August to 16 September 2022, the Student and Learning Services’ customer service desk is open Mon-Fri from 10 am to 3 pm.
From 19 September onward, the Student and Learning Services’ customer service desk is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 am to 3 pm.
If you are unable to visit the customer service desk during these times, please contact us by email or phone, and we can set up a meeting for a different time.
Welcome to a UEF info session on Wednesday, 7 September 2022, starting at 15.00. The topics of the autumn’s first info session are:
a participatory and inclusive university
how to ensure the quality of research and education now and in the future; and
current issues at the start of a new academic year.
The UEF info session will be attended by Chair of the UEF Board Lea Ryynänen-Karjalainen, Vice Chair of the University Collegiate Body Tero Karjalainen, Rector Jukka Mönkkönen and Academic Rector Tapio Määttä. The event will be hosted by Head of Communications Risto Löf.
You can ask questions in the UEF Info Session Yammer group both before and during the info session. Please note that the info session will be bilingual, but with Finnish as the main language. Any questions posed in English will be answered in English either during or after the info session.
The UEF info session will be held on 7 September 2022 in the lobby of the Snellmania building on the Kuopio Campus, starting at 15. You can attend the info session either on-site, or follow it as a live stream. The info session will be recorded, and the recoding will be made available after the event.
Through the Biodiversity education network, students at the University of Eastern Finland have a possibility to take biodiversity-related courses from other universities.
The University of Eastern Finland, together with the Universities of Turku, Oulu, Helsinki and Jyväskylä and Åbo Akademi University are collaborating in biodiversity education. A common agreement on cross-institutional studies has been signed and the course catalogue for this academic year has been published. The courses are targeted mainly at students studying biology, environmental sciences, geography or agriculture and forestry but there are also courses suitable for all disciplines. These courses offer a good possibility to deepen one’s understanding of biodiversity loss and biodiversity protection.
The format of the courses differs: some courses are online, while others are field and exercise courses. All the courses are free of charge for students, and the course catalogue has been planned to complete the degrees available in students’ home universities. Through the Biodiversity education network, students have the possibility to learn new topics and collaborate with students from other universities. Before the studies, it is important to make sure that the course can be included into the degree, and the right to study the courses needs to be applied for separately for each course.
For this academic year, there are altogether 15 courses (some in Finnish), and the first courses are starting soon. The course catalogue of the network will be updated for each academic year. This year, there are courses on, for example, species identification, tropical ecology, fish biology, winter ecology and environmental protection.
Hopefully students will find these courses and eagerly widen their knowledge on courses which are not organised by their own university, hopes the coordination group of the network.
Courses offered by the Biodiversity education network in English academic year 2022-2023:
Tropical ecology
Tropical plant families
Flora of subarctic Europe
Flora of southern Europe
Biodiversity.now A
Fundamentals of conservation
Boreal winter ecology
Exercises in fish and fisheries biology
Nature under Threat 1
Nature under threat 2
For further information, please contact:
Elina Oksanen, Professor, Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, [email protected]
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