This is AYY’s association newsletter 1/2013. If you want to receive AYY’s association newsletter to your e-mail, please subscribe in here.
Happy new year 2013 to each and every association! This week, the association newsletter includes information on AYY’s annual party, the winter day held next Tuesday, Otax services for associations, the distribution of the association guide and the congested service of the National Board of Patents and Registration.
Content of the Association Newsletter
- AYY’s 3rd annual party on Saturday, 2 Feb
- AYY’s board was organised
- Smökki kitchen training on Tuesday, 22 Jan
- Association guide distributed at the central office and online
- Bring your association to control checkpoints in the winter day!
- Main administrator notifications for Otax must be submitted by 28 March
- Congested service of PRH’s association register
- AYY Uncovers – insider information about jobs!
- Rehearsal hours of FC Kissat have changed
1. AYY’S 3RD ANNUAL PARTY ON SATURDAY, 2 FEB
Welcome to celebrate AYY’s third annual party at Event Arena Bank on Saturday, 2 Feb! There will be a three-course dinner with speeches, music performances, stand up, a balloon artist, as well as a great afterparty. Tickets to the afterparty will be sold separately during week 4.
The dresscode of the night is ”cocktail”. On Sunday, 3 Feb, the anniversary brunch is served at Design Factory from 12noon onwards. There is a bus service to the brunch. Registration and further information on the party is available at www.vuosijuhlat.fi and Facebook .
2. AYY’S BOARD WAS ORGANISED – TUUKKA PYKÄLÄINEN IN CHARGE OF ORGANISATIONAL AFFAIRS FOR THE YEAR OF 2013
The Student Union’s administrative and executive power is exercised by the Board appointed by the Representatve Council. The term of office is a calendar year. The Board takes care of the Student Union’s routine matters and represents the student union. In all operations, the Board is liable for the Representative Council. Each board member has one or several sectors for the operations of which they are in charge of.
In the Board of the year 2013, Tuukka Pykäläinen is in charge of organisational affairs. Tuukka studies industrial design at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture and has previously acted as the chair of NUDE Young Designers’ Association in 2012. Tuukka can be reached by email at
tuukka.pykalainen@ayy.fi and by telephone at 0400 66 33 57. You can also use the old familiar address of the organisational sector jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi.
More information on the board and its composition can be found from here.
3. SMÖKKI KITCHEN TRAINING ON TUESDAY, 22 JANUARY
AYY will organise a training which entitles to the use of Smökki kitchen on Tuesday, 22 January at 6pm in the kitchen of Smökki. You need the training in order to use the above-mentioned kitchen. If you are interested, please sign up NOW by sending an email to Producer Tuomas Saloniemi at tuomas.saloniemi@ayy.fi (telephone 050 520 9435). Training places are limited!
4. AYY’S ASSOCIATION GUIDE DISTRIBUTED AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE AND ONLINE
In connection with the association training in December, AYY also published its new association guide. The guide is intended to associations and there is about 1 printed version reserved for each association. You can collect your own copy from AYY’s central office at Lämpömiehenkuja 2. Alternatively, the exact same guide is also available online where you can print it yourself. There are also Swedish and English versions of the guide.
5. BRING YOUR ASSOCIATION TO CONTROL CHECKPOINTS IN THE WINTER DAY!
The spring season is about to begin and a sure sign of this is the winter day organised in Otaniemi on Tuesday, 22 January. If your association wants to control checkpoints in the event, please sign up in here. The form is open until Saturday, 19 Jan.
Checkpoints are open between 2.30pm-5pm, the afterparty at Smökki from 8pm onwards (admission €3). More detailed instructions will be sent for those who control the checkpoints via e-mail. Additional questions can be sent to Freshman Major Hamilkar Bergroth at hamilkar.bergroth@ayy.fi.
6. MAIN ADMINISTRATOR NOTIFICATIONS FOR OTAX MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 28 MARCH
Otax is the web hosting service for the associations maintained by AYY. Details can be found from here. If your association uses Otax, please notice that the main administrator notifications for Otax must be submitted by 28 March. For those accounts for which the notification is not made, the user names will be locked on 1 April. After one month, the website of the account will also be closed.
So please update your PHP applications at Otax to the latest versions and then fill in the administrator notification. Please remember to mention which software and versions are running. Also clear additional SSH keys from .ssh/authorized_keys file.
You can submit the notification in here – please submit your notification on time and fill it out carefully.
7. CONGESTED SERVICE OF PRH’S ASSOCIATION REGISTER
The association register maintained by the National Board of Patents and Registration is very congested. At the moment, regulatory changes, in particular, take from seven to nine months to be processed. The establishment notifications of associations are still processed in a couple of months and the changes in signatories are handled even more rapidly. According to PRH, the service is congested due to human resources.
PRH points out that the more the associations process their affairs electronically online, the quicker the officials can do their work.
Further information:
8. AYY UNCOVERS – INSIDER INFORMATION ABOUT JOBS!
Do job postings often look the same? Is it difficult to find out from the ads what kind of a job/organisation/team is looking for employees? AYY wants to help!
AYY – in cooperation with companies – offers AYY Uncovers video blog, where the real employees in companies tell about their background and future prospects in the form of video interviews!
More videos will be published on the website when they are finished. You will also have the opportunity to influence which organisations will produce videos – please suggest an employer who interests you via the link on the website!
Tthe website is available here.
9. REHEARSAL HOURS OF FC KISSAT HAVE CHANGED
Hi all female students who have been bitten by the football bug! Aalto women’s soccer team, FC Kissat, has started to train in Unisport facilities in Viikki since January! The rehearsals are always held on Wednesdays, 6.30pm-7.30pm, in Viikki (address Maakaari 3). If you are interested in playing soccer in good company, you are welcome to join our activities.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR OWN NEWS IN THIS NEWSLETTER?
Please send a brief text by Wednesday, 10am, to the address jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. The news will be translated so you can submit your text in Finnish. The contents of the newsletter are ultimately edited by AYY’s Specialist in Organisational Affairs and Communications Joonas Jylhä (joonas.jylha@ayy.fi, tel: 050 520 9442).