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
The student tutor contacts the tutees before their arrival, usually meets them on the arrival and helps the new students with the questions the tutee might have (for example registration at the university, registration for the courses, how to move around in the campus city and in campus).
We received 184 applications for international tutoring next autumn semester. Thank you for everybody who has applied. We will get back to all of you during Feb-March.
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.
The tutors in Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programme work closely together with each other and with the programme coordinator.
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.
For further information please contact
Kirsi Konttinen
tel. +358 40 3552146
email kirsi.konttinen@uef.fi