- Information about events in early 2021 – Updated 8.2.
- PT Info Channel on Telegram
- Minutebeer 27.4.
- Overall patch sewing evening 28.4.
- Student&professors coffee break
- Association’s Wappu champagne
- PT’s Remote Event Survey 2021
- PT’s LinkedIn group
- Board meetings in 2021
- Koronavilkku-app
- WappuApu-fundraise to fight loneliness among young people
- Tour de Walpuri
- Declaration of Wappu madness
- Dipolin Wappu
- Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University
UPCOMING EVENTS
Exam week is behind and Wappu is ahead! Below are the events of both PT and the rest of Otaniemi with their dates. Note that the list is updated when more events are published.
27.4. PT Minute Beer 16:00
27.4. Sitsi Competition 2021 18:00
28.4. PT’s Wappu overalls patches sewing evening 18:00
28.4. Wappuhuuma 15
28.4. Who wants to be a Wappunääri? 18:30
28.4. Funny Otavideos 20:00
28.4. T14 Wappuvaihto // Wappu Exhange
29.4. Fuksispeksis 16:00 (TAKE NOTE, TIME HAS CHANGED)
29.4. Tour de Walpuri 19:00
30.4. Declaration of Wappu Madness
30.4. Havis Amanda 2021, The crowning of Manta at 17:00
30.4. Dipoli Wappu 2021 at 21:00
1.5. Assosiation’s Wappu champagne 12:00
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1. Information about events in early 2021 – Updated 8.2.
The board decided on 8.2. that PT will follow the guidelines of the Regional State Administrative Agency about corona. For now, the association will not organize events that require gathering. This decision will be reviewed if needed.
2. PT Info Channel on Telegram
PT now has a separate Telegram channel for official announcements and news about the association – PT Info Channel! All the most important announcements and news about the association will be posted in the channel from now on, for example about events and the summary of the weekly newsletter sent by email. The #PT-chat will remain as a chat for discussions between PT members. You can join the PT Info Channel here: https://t.me/joinchat/AAAAAFAZzeI4birVAcfBZg.
3. Minutebeer 27.4.
Happy Wappu everyone! One of the traditional Wappuevents in Otaniemi include minutebeer and this year Prosessiteekkarit have decided to organize their own remote version for their members in Zoom on Tuesday 27.4. 16 o’clock.
The idea behind the minutebeer is to drink 1 shot of carbonated drink every minute. The minutebeer will last for 100 minutes. To make the remote event feel like a real sports event, the 2011 World Hockey Finals will be set in the background, grab a drink and come and spend a crazy Tuesday evening!
4. Overall patch sewing evening 28.4.
Are your overalls still barren and clean? Is there a huge pile of patches waiting to be sewn? Patch sewing night saves you! Arrive to Zoom on 28.4. at 18, and join us into the wonderful world of sewing. Later that night there are also great shows on the Week’s Wappu Studio, which we can also view while sewing. Link to the event will be shared before its start in Telegram on PT’s Information Channel.
WHAT: Sewing patches
WHERE: Zoom, link will be shared later
WHEN: 28.4. 18:00
WHY: Tune-up of your overalls, yay!
5. Student&professors coffee break
Hello, we are organising a student&professor coffee break on Wednesday 28.4 at 13-14.30. We will be going through the student feedback from the questionnaire that closed a few weeks back, and generally discussing remote studies and how people are doing.
This is a great opportunity to have a discussion with the school personnel and have your voice heard. The decisions about next falls teaching are being made now, so any student input is very useful.
So please join us in discussion, we need more participants. Signup here!
6. Association’s Wappu champagne
Welcome to celebrate and raise a toast to Wappu together with other members. We will enjoy a glass of champagne together via Zoom on 1.5. at 12:00. New ProTeesi is published!
You can join the event here. (Linkki upotus kohtaan ”tästä” https://aalto.zoom.us/j/67954577737)
7. PT’s Remote Event Survey 2021
AYY’s rental facilities are currently not in use. The association still wants to organise remote events and take the members’ wishes into account, so we encourage you to answer this survey and tell us your wishes! You can answer the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeD-Mhn7NN2WyS7WGITfzIZpSJCHUNl_tjl64Sw5RzwB3KtIw/viewform.
8. PT’s LinkedIn group
Applications for summer jobs have begun so a quick reminder that PT has their own LinkedIn site and group! LinkedIn is a great way to get contacts and network with your student colleagues. Open summer jobs from our field will be informed about in the group as well!
Link to join the group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13559286/
Link to the PT LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/prosessiteekkarit-ry/
9. Board meetings in 2021
The board meetings are on Mondays at 8:10 and you are all welcome to follow! You can check scheduled meetings in the association’s event calendar.
Board meetings are held in Zoom and meetings are held in Finnish. You can join meetings here.
10. Koronavilkku-app
The PT board recommends everyone to download the Finnish corona tracking application Koronavilkku!
You can download and install Koronavilkku here:
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11. Greetings from CHEM repco group
Representative council meeting 3/2021 of Aalto University Student Union (AYY) was held on Wednesday 21st of April again remotely via Zoom. There were 43 members of repco present and the main topics of the meeting were deciding on the student centre project as well as approving the financial statement for 2020 and granting freedom from liability to the AYY 2020 board. You can watch the meeting recording from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZuKWCz3tg and the meeting documents are available in AYY Inside: https://inside.ayy.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=72908807
The next repco meeting is organised on 27th of May at 17.15, with topics including the decision on changes to student union rules and various rules of procedure. The links to meeting livestreams can always be found from the AYY website ayy.fi/live!
If you happen to have questions regarding representative council meetings or the work of the CHEM repco group in general, you can always send a message to the group chair Jani Anttila (@jampade) or vice chair Airi Antikainen (@airikatriina)!
Best regards,
CHEM representative group
Latest news from the student union office
At the start of the meeting board member Vehkomäki presented the latest news from the student union office. The board and office have held their holidays during the spring to prepare for workload in April. A new civil service worker will start at the office in June, with tasks including for example the upcoming elections to repco in the fall. The office is also recruiting a summer worker in service advising (open until 25.4.). The board decided in its meeting 14/2021 to accept four new associations to the first list of AYY associations and granted them the AYY start fund. AYY ja OUBS as well as Jäynä and Äpy will organise a Wappu studio in Dipoli (22.4.-31.4.), consisting of various streamed events. Tutor trainings have been held for over 1000 new tutors. Yet upcoming are additional Zoom sessions over summer, with topics including equality, remote grouping and intercultural communication. The community structure project is also progressing, and the project now has its own project worker.
The songbook report ordered by AYY has sparked some debate. The background of the report was discussed in the office news. Last year the technology students’ songbook was withdrawn due to racist content. A report regarding such aspects of the content was requested from Nyyti ry and SOCO ry, and was finally received at such short notice from Anna Lemström. The report addresses the problematic themes of the book, with the main emphasis on the content as a whole. Based on the report, development points have been discussed with Lutku and the Songbook Committee. A new agreement has been reached with Securitas, and starting from 6.4. door opening service will cost 30 euros to AYY tenants at all times. The general service door codes have also now been withdrawn, due to disturbances and burglary cases. As for real estate projects, an investigation is underway whether the student union can proceed with its part of the Miestentie II project before other partners. The new Otakaari housing projects are in the preliminary contract negotiation phase. In education policy the main emphasis has been in influencing Aalto strategy and its intermediate goals.
Management Report and Financial Statement
AYY financial director Monika Kivimäki presented the financial statements of 2020 and other associated documents. Repco approved the financial statements and annual management report. The 2020 surplus was left in the surplus and deficit account. Freedom of liability was granted to the 2020 board in the next meeting point.
Student Center
The largest share of meeting time was allocated to going through the student center project materials, presented by board member Otto Usvajärvi. A representative of ACRE was also present at the meeting to answer questions from repco. You can find the materials from AYY Inside if you want to have a detailed look: https://inside.ayy.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=72908807
The representative council approved the student center project agreement without a separate vote, as no alternative proposals were presented as opposed to the board motion. In its decision, the repco authorizes the AYY board to negotiate in the project according to AYY interests and sign a project agreement for the student center. Conditions were set for the decision, such as the sale of the current central office to ACRE, reaching an agreement on spaces to be rented to ACRE, commitment to a total cost ceiling of 8 million euro and in general the absence of changes unfavorable to AYY in the project agreement.
12. Feedpack
We would like to remind you about the importance of study feedback! The issues will be reacted to when the feedback reaches us.
You can contact Sara @sarasiivola
(opintovastaava@prosessiteekkarit.fi) or use the anonymous feedback form in PT’s website if you have any bachelor level related study feedback.
If you have any masters or major studies related study feedback you can inform the guilds’ heads of study affairs:
KK: @Joakim9 or feedback form
PJK: @reettamaria or feedback form
VK: @olgapartanen or feedback form
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13. WappuApu-fundraise to fight loneliness among young people
Aalto University Student Union’s Fuksi Committee launches a fundraise, WappuApu, on 31.3. WappuApu supports HelsinkiMission’s work in decreasing the loneliness among young people and students, to whose mental health the ongoing pandemic has affected greatly.
Many young people are involuntarily left outside social networks. People of all ages can experience loneliness, but especially among young people, this is a problem. Every fifth young person experiences loneliness and anxiety about not having someone to share their thoughts with, someone you trust or simply someone to talk to and spend time with.
The Fuksi Committee wants to raise awareness and provoke discussion about the important topic, and reminding everyone to ask their friends, course buddies, family, ands, most importantly, oneself, how it is going.
On the launch day, a Wappublanket installation is hung up on the wall of Väre. Fuksis of different guilds and associations have painted their own letter to the big installation, which says “Valoisaa Wappua!”, bright Wappu, to everyone passing by.
“By creating something together that spreads joy and shows that we care about each other, we can bring each other closer though Wappu cannot be celebrated together physically,” says Fuksi Major Rudolf Nikander.
Participate in the fundraise: wappu.fi/apu. The money is directed to HelsinkiMissio’s work in reducing loneliness among the youth. The fundraise is open until 10.5.2021.
14. Tour de Walpuri
Teekkari Section’s Teekkari Culture Committee proudly presents: Tour de Walpuri Monopoly Edition! The tour will be organized remotely on 29.4. at approximately 7 pm on Discord. Participation in English is possible, but some parts of the event are held only in Finnish.
Will this night result in forever broken friendships like during those times in your childhood? Or is Tour de Walpuri as rigged as our capitalist market economy? Answers to these questions and many more might be revealed during the event!
So gather up a group of 4-10 people and do not pass go but go directly to Discord after the Fuksispexes. During the tour the groups compete for the most awesome and enthusiastic performance, and the winner has great prizes in store for them!
You now have a chance to come and make remote checkpoints for soon to be teekkaris and older academic people. Details concerning the checkpoints will be sent to the checkpoint organizers at a later time. So register your checkpoint using this form and come and spread Wappu spirit to the community! The checkpoints also compete; the best checkpoint will be chosen and the winners will get a prize. Please register on 26.4. at the latest.
https://lomake.ayy.fi/teekkarijaosto/walpurin-kierros-2021-rastit-tour-de-walpuri-2021-checkpoints/
WHAT: Tour de Walpuri
WHERE: On Discord
WHEN: 29.4. at 7 pm after the Fuksispexes
WHY: Because of Wappu!
15. Declaration of Wappu madness
No need to take it easy anymore, as the great festivities of May Day Eve are here! The festivities will start with the last year’s familiar concept by your screens when the broadcast starts at 1.30pm with musical performances and speeches. The broadcast lasts for a couple of hours.
So, gather all necessary refreshments at your screen, contact your friends and take a comfortable seat, this is where the Wappu Eve starts!
A more detailed schedule will be published later in this event so stay tuned!
WHAT? Declaration of Wappu Rowdiness
WHERE? Wherever you are!
WHEN? Friday, 30th of April at 1.30 PM
16. Dipolin Wappu
Have you already heard? Dipolin Wappu is here again! ????
The party committee is yet again organizing the best Wappu party of the year as Dipolin Wappu ‘21 will be streamed directly to your home! It is going to be the greatest show during the Wappu eve with amazing performances by different Otaniemi artists and more or less entertaining sketchs by JTMK ???? The evening will culminate at midnight when Teekkari caps can be worn again and the afterparty will begin with AaltoDJ!
More information about the artists is coming soon so click the “Going” button and stay tuned ????
WHAT?: Dipolin Wappu!
WHERE?: Wappustudio stream https://stream.wappu.fi/
WHEN?: 30.4. from 9 pm to 01:30 am
WHY?: Wappu party!! ????
17. Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University
You can find information on the effects of the coronavirus on the activities of the university at https://www.aalto.fi/en/aalto-university/information-on-coronavirus.
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18. EnferBio summer trainee
eniferBio is a biotechstartup company established in 2020. We are operating in single cell protein business and our product is targeted as a sustainable protein ingredient for aquaculture use. We work in a close collaboration with biorefining and aqua feed companies. eniferBio is looking for a talented and motivated summer trainee to work at our laboratory in Espoo in summer 2021.What we offer:
●Laboratory work(3 –4 months) focusing on fungal strain development(classical strain engineering strategies). Continuation of the work later in the autumn during weekends/holiday seasons may be possible.
●Interesting and challenging work for improving aquaculture sustainability
●Flexible working times
Requirements:
●Biotechnology studentin Master’s degreephase
●Experience from a laboratory and strain engineering work. Bioprocessing experienc e is a plus
●Proactive and flexible working attitude.
If you are interested, please send your application and CV to anssi.rantasalo@eniferbio.fiorsimo.ellila@eniferbio.fi Theposition will be filled once a suitable person is found. You can call Simo (040 5675786) or Anssi (040 5898354) for additional information.
19. Secretary’s Regards
There has been many great vappu events and the Jayna finale was good way to lift atmosphere for the Wappu!
Animal video of the week: talkative birdNews from the board
In today’s meeting the board went over the final events before Wappu. We talked how fuksis are going to get their caps and how well done the last events have been.
The board wants to wish great Wappu for everyone!
Pyry Vartia
Spokesperson-secretary 2021 | Prosessiteekkarit ry
+358445953800 | tiedottajasihteeri@prosessiteekkarit.fi
School of Chemical Engineering | Aalto University
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