This is AYY’s association newsletter 4/2013. If you want to receive AYY’s association newsletter to your e-mail, please subscribe at http://list.ayy.fi/mailman/listinfo/yhdistykset
CONTENT OF THE NEWSLETTER
- Submitting of association notices and the application period of the operating grant to begin on Friday, 1 March
- Submit your events for ayy’s academic year calendar 2013–2014
- Apply for the campus guerrilla group
- Tools for anxious situations workshop
1. SUBMITTING OF ASSOCIATION NOTICES AND THE APPLICATION PERIOD OF THE OPERATING GRANT TO BEGIN ON FRIDAY, 1 MARCH
The submitting of AYY’s association notices and the application period for the operating grant will begin on Friday, 1 March. The notice and application period will last from Friday, 1 March to Monday, 1 April. All associations approved in the first list of AYY’s association register may apply for the operating grant. Associations in the second list of the association register and those associations which do not apply for financial assistance this year only have to fill out the association notice section at the beginning of the application form. Please note that each association in AYY’s association register must submit at least one association notice. If the association notice is not submitted in two consecutive years, the association will be removed from AYY’s association register.
The application form is available from Friday morning, 1 March onwards at https://lomake.ayy.fi/yhdistykset/ayyn-toiminta-avustushakemus-2013/. Further information on the application is available at /grants-for-associations/, which includes the scoring model used for the allocation of the operating grants and the grant amounts of the previous year. You should also bear in mind that the prerequisite for the operating grant is the association profile at AYY.fi, and the associations are responsible for updating their profiles. If you have lost your user name or otherwise need help with updating your profile, you can send e-mail to jarjestoasiat@ayy.fi. At the same address, you can receive additional information and help with the association notice and the operating grant application. You can also contact us by phone at 050 520 9442. The best time to reach the organisation specialist by phone is on weekdays from 10am to 2pm.
You can browse the fields in the application form in advance at /wp-content/uploads/Avustushakulomake-2013.pdf (opens as a pdf-file in finnish. The final application form will be available in english as well).
2. SUBMIT YOUR EVENTS FOR AYY’S ACADEMIC YEAR CALENDAR 2013–2014
Associations and actors within AYY have the opportunity to submit important event dates for the student union’s academic year calendar. Events can be submitted through the google docs file linked below until Sunday, 26 May 2013. Please add your events under the correct month in chronological order. Please enter the text you want in the calendar ”Event name/Text” field (yellow background). Please note that one line can hold up the maximum of 25 characters of text, including spaces. When writing the text, please consider how many lines from your own calendar you wish to be ”wasted”. The calendar is trilingual so please take this into account when planning the text.
If there are several events marked on the same date, the event that concerns most of the students will end up in the calendar. The file is editable until the provided deadline 26 May 2013, until which you can make changes to your events. Please fill out the columns carefully, and check and double check that the information is correct. Please also remember to include information on who is organising the event.
Submit your event at: http://tinyurl.com/ayycalendar2013
Questions and comments are received by AYY’s Communications Officer Henna Lahti (henna.lahti@ayy.fi or 050 520 9440).
3. APPLY FOR THE CAMPUS GUERRILLA GROUP
Do you want to influence the world’s best campus through concreteness? AYY is looking for a campus guerrilla group to implement a concrete idea generation platform on Otaniemi Campus.
The project generates ideas and constructs concrete physical brainstorming facilities for the campus. The facilities will be located in Urban Mill building next to Design Factory. The physical brainstorming space implemented in the project will remain after the project as a space where you can view and comment on the development of the campus. In the project, you have the opportunity to concretely influence Otaniemi Campus in a compact project team of 7 members. One chairperson and 6 members are recruited to the team. We are looking for team members ranging from freshmen to old hands.
Background:
Aalto University’s main campus will be located in Otaniemi, where students of different fields encounter. Our main campus will also be a key part of T3 area (science, arts and economics) located in Otaniemi, Keilaniemi and Tapiola in Espoo.
Schedule:
- Recruitment for the project team is open: 8 Feb-25 Feb
- Implementation of the project: February-April
- Opening of the facilities in April
- The facilities are open to students, staff, researchers and the city from April onwards.
- The application form is available at http://lomake.ayy.fi/rekry/kampus/
4. TOOLS FOR ANXIOUS SITUATIONS WORKSHOP
The workshop is intended for students whose anxiety affects their studies and who would like to find tools for coping with anxiety. There are many types of anxiety, one is nervous to perform, others fear social situations or might be anxious about something else.
The workshop provides an opportunity to handle different situations and anxiety in general – usually from the participants’ own starting points. The workshop includes six meetings (two hours/meeting). The workshop is led by Study Psychologists Minna Nevala and Vuokko Tierney.
- Meeting times: Mondays, 12noon-2pm, 11 March-22 April (not on Easter Monday, 1 Apr)
- Meeting place: Innopoli 2 (Tekniikantie 14, Otaniemi), class Atlantis, 3rd floor
- Registration and further information: opintopsykologi(at)aalto.fi or 040 353 8112 (Minna Nevala)
Six meetings of the workshop form an entity, and you get the most out of the workshop if you participate every time. Please register for the workshop no later than Fri, 1 March 2013. https://into.aalto.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5116000.
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).