All incoming exchange students and Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students will be provided with a student tutor who helps the new students with practical matters and adjusting into the Finnish student life and culture.
The tutor should be
- a degree student in a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programme at UEF,
- interested in helping the new international students,
- willing to learn and develop their skills and cooperate with others,
- able to communicate with different people in English,
- able to participate in the training sessions,
- in the campus city during autumn semester, starting from late August.
What does a tutor do?
The student tutor is a peer student who has volunteered for helping the new students to get started with their studies and lives in the new environment.
- The tutor contacts the tutees before their arrival according to the instructions of the programme coordinator.
- The tutor meets the tutees on the arrival and helps them with questions they may have (for example registration at the university, registration for the courses, how to move around in campus and in the campus city).
- The tutor helps the tutees with practical matters and introduces them to studying, to the student life and different communities.
The tutors of the degree programmes work together with each other and with the programme coordinator. The tutors of exchange students can tutor alone or in groups of 2-4.
Tutor training
All the student tutors are trained and they can earn credits for the tutoring. The tutor training takes place in April (6 hours) and in August (2 hours). In addition there will be a feedback session (2 hours) in Oct-Nov and in Feb-March. The tutors for the exchange students can earn 3 ECTS and the tutors for the degree students can earn 4 ECTS. Please note that the tutor training is compulsory for the tutors. If you have tutored earlier at UEF, you don’t have to participate in the training again.
We encourage all the student tutors to work together (for example in pairs) and network with the other student tutors. The International Mobility Services, the Student Union, the Student Services, and other staff members are always there to help the tutors, as well as the new international student.
How to apply as a tutor?
The call for tutor applications usually opens in January. The application information will be available on this website. The actual tutoring will take place next autumn semester when the new students start their studies.
More information
Contact person: Kirsi Konttinen, tel. +358 40 3552146, email [email protected].