The Guild of Civil and Environmental Engineers (IK) at the Aalto University gathers all students of energy and environmental technology and civil and environmental engineering under one roof, acting as a student association and looking after the students’ interests. Among other things, the Guild plans and organizes cultural benefits, sports activities, academic ‘sitsi’-parties as well as traditional partying. The Guild also organizes lots of events for the university freshmen. The Guild handles much of the informing of its members on topical things and events, handles relations between different faculties, guilds and the corporate world, affecting academic matters as well as taking care of day-to-day activities. IK aims to fulfill the hopes and expectations of its members in the best way possible.

The guild itself is run by the Guild Council: guild members who have been elected for the duration of one year by the guild members. All activities within the guild are organized by the council with the help of volunteering committee workers and an elected faculty professor – the ‘Oltermanni’. All guild activities and positions are completely voluntary.

The Guild was founded in 1913 and has both a long and distinguished history luckily, the Guild doesn’t show its age, and is both active and youthful even today! Popular activities within the Guild include all kinds of freshmen activities, the annual ‘Hermannisitsi’ ball as well as the ‘½Hermanni’-sitsi. The Guild offers its members other annual events as well, such as the Guild’s Foreign Excursion, ‘Kotimaan Pitkä’ (or National Long-haul”), which is an annual excursion around Finland. In addition, the Guild offers cruises, sauna get-togethers, ‘sitsi’-parties, company excursions and so on, both on its own as well as with other guilds. The Guild also has its own Guild room and quarterly magazine, Ruutiset.

For more information on the guild, events and how to join, visit http://ik.ayy.fi/?q=english