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The Student and Learning Services’ customer service opening hours in December 2024 and January 2025

6 December 2024 the phone service and the customer service desks on both campuses are closed.

23 December 2024 – 15 January 2025 the customer service will be open as follows:

From 16 January 2025 onward the customer service will return to regular opening hours.

Regular opening hours and contact information

The Student and Learning Services’ customer service desk is open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 am to 1 pm.

Visiting address: Joensuu Aurora A, 1st floor; Kuopio Canthia, 2nd floor

Email address: opiskelu@uef.fi (Please note that there might be delays in responses during vacation times)

Phone number: +358 29 445 8900

Phone service opening hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 am to 2 pm

Career Monitoring Survey is still open!

The university follows the careers of the graduates, e.g. with a career monitoring survey. Career Monitoring Survey has started in October. The target group of the survey is those who have completed a Master’s degree in 2019 and those who completed their doctorate in 2021. The survey is carried out in cooperation with other universities as part of the Aarresaari network and this is the 20th year for career monitoring survey. Please, more information here.

Why should you answer the survey? With the help of surveys, information is gathered about the academic labor market, the career paths of university graduates, and feedback about studies is collected. The information obtained is used in the guidance of current and future students (e.g. the Töissä.fi- service, which is said to be a particularly popular tool in high schools), in the development of curricula, and in studies about the working life of university graduates. The master’s career monitoring survey is also part of the universities’ funding model, so the feedback is really important to the university.

Those who belong to the target group are approached by letter, e-mail or text message, so if you’ll received a contact, we really hope that you will respond to it! The Career Monitoring Survey is open till 9th of December, so you are still able to respond. The results of previous years can be viewed e.g. Vipunen, maintained by the Board of Education. from the fi statistics service and the aforementioned Töissä.fi service.

Still time to apply for exchange!

The November application period for outgoing exchange is still open!

During this application period, students may apply for exchange via these programmes:

  • Bilateral exchange
  • ISEP Exchange
  • north2north exchange

The application period ends on Friday, 15 Nov at 3 pm sharp – make sure you submit your application in time!

The calls for applications are available in Kamu. Submit your application form on SoleMOVE.

For more information, please see the Study Abroad section on Kamu!

Rector Jukka Mönkkönen’s farewell lecture and handing over of the chain of office on 12 December 2024 in Joensuu and online

Welcome to Rector Jukka Mönkkönen’s farewell lecture on Thursday 12 December 2024 starting at 12:15 in room C2 of the Carelia building.

After the lecture, the event continues with the handing over of the Rector’s chain of office to Tapio Määttä, whose term of office will begin in early 2025.

The Student Union’s address will be delivered by the Chair of the Executive Board Mirka Nieminen. The programme also includes musical performances.

Sign up for the farewell lecture and shared transport from the Kuopio campus by Friday 29 November 2024 via this link. The return journey will start after the Christmas coffee event at 15:00.

The programme can be followed via a live stream starting at 12:15 in the address https://vimeo.com/event/4686307.

The traditional joint Christmas coffee event is organised for the staff and students in the Carelia lobby from 14:00 to 15:00.

Welcome!

November calls for applications for student exchange in Kamu!

The calls for applications for November application period for outgoing student exchange have been published in Kamu. The calls are available on Kamu’s page calls for applications for student exchange.

The November application period is open 1.-15.11.2024. The application period closes on Friday, November 15, at 3:00 PM sharp (Finnish time). Make sure you submit your application on time!

Placements are available in the framework of the following programmes:

  • Bilateral exchange
  • ISEP Exchange
  • north2north exchange

Exchanges are available for either one semester (autumn 2025 or spring 2026) or full academic year 2025-2026, depending on the programme. It is not possible to apply for calendar year exchange.

Applications are submitted in the SoleMOVE application system. Read more about student exchange and instructions for applying on Kamu’s Study Abroad section!

Answer a survey about digital services and win a pair of JBL headphones or a Sandberg power bank!

There are Kamu, Viva Engage, Peppi, Lukkarikone, Exam and many other digital tools to support your studies. But how do these services work? Are they easy to use? What could we do differently?   

Answer our compact survey, contribute to the development of digital services and you could win headphones or a power bank!  

Among the respondents we will raffle one JBL Tune Buds headset, one JBL Tune Bluetooth headset and one Sandberg Power bank.  Answer the survey by 5 November, 2024 here: https://link.webropol.com/s/UEF-survey-digi

Telephone consultation from study psychologists in November and December

It is possible to consult the study psychologists still during this semester. Send a contact request via text message, and the study psychologist will call you during the consultation hours. Include your whole name and your student number in the text message. You can also directly call the study psychologists during the following consultation hours:

Tuesday 19th Nov 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., Study Psychologist Katri Ruth, tel. +358403552044

Tuesday 26th Dec 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., Study Psychologist Mari Tirronen, tel.+358505691806

Tuesday 3rd Dec 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Study Psychologist Emilia Ranta, tel. +358503386415