This is AYY’s association newsletter 1/2010. AYY’s association newsletter is published every other Monday during the academic terms. If you wish to receive AYY’s association newsletter to your email, please subscribe at http://list.ayy.fi/mailman/listinfo/yhdistykset
The application round of the TTE Fund is ongoing. Have you remembered to apply for it?
1. What is the association newsletter?
2. Amendments to the Finnish Associations Act
3. The application round of the TTE Fund is ongoing, deadline 15 Oct
4. Events to the AYY newsletter
1. WHAT IS THE ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER?
The association newsletter is AYY’s new fortnightly newsletter published on Mondays and it is sent by email to the email list of AYY associations. The objective of the newsletter is to reach as many AYY associations as possible and tell about issues which concern the associations.
If you want to include events or any other matters in the newsletter, please get in touch with Joonas Jylhä, AYY’s specialist in charge of associations and communications (joonas.jylha@ayy.fi, 050 520 9442) who compiles the newsletter every two weeks. We also wish to receive feedback about the newsletter to the same address.
2. AMENDMENTS TO THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION ACT
The amendments to the Finnish Associations Act came into effect in early September. The Associations Act was reformed to better respond to the current needs of associations and organisational activities. The amended act increases the influence opportunities of members by allowing the possibility of distance participation in certain meetings. Current auditing by lay auditors is replaced by an inspection of operations.
The Student Union recommends that the associations briefly go through the amendments to the Associations Act on the website of the National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland at http://www.prh.fi/fi/yhdistysrekisteri/yhdistyslaki/lakimuutokset_20100901.html
3. THE APPLICATION ROUND OF THE TTE FUND IS ONGOING, DEADLINE 15 OCT
Each association should pay attention now: the TTE Fund, owned by the Student Union, allocates funds again. The purpose of the fund is to support the efforts of the student union, its members and the associations operating within the Student Union by allocating funds. The fund allocates funding based on the applications, the deadline for the applications is Friday, 15 October.
Directions for applying are available on the website of the fund at http://www.tky.fi/fi/teekkareille/stipendit-ja-avustukset/tter/avustukset/ohjeita_avustuksen_hakijalle/
The application can be submitted at: http://www.tky.fi/fi/teekkareille/stipendit-ja-avustukset/tter/tter-hakulomake-2009k/create/
Good luck with the application!
4. EVENTS TO THE AYY NEWSLETTER
Every Monday, AYY sends out the newsletter to all members who have subscribed to it (subscribe at http://list.ayy.fi/mailman/listinfo/ayy-info-fi). The newsletter reaches a large number of the student union members.
The associations can use their own user names to add their events in three languages to the event calendar on AYY’s website. Events from the event calendar are also selected for the newsletter. Therefore, you can include your information both in the event calendar and the newsletter at the same time. It is no longer necessary to separately send a message to the Student Union’s Communications Officer once the message is added to AYY.fi.
If you have lost the AYY.fi user name or do not have it yet, help is available at tietotekniikka(a)ayy.fi.