- Information about events in early 2021 – Updated 8.2.
- PT Info Channel on Telegram
- Join Puunjalostusinsinöörit
- PT’s Remote Event Survey 2021
- Coffee breaks
- PT’s LinkedIn group
- Board meetings in 2021
- Koronavilkku-app
- Aalto Space user experience survey for students
- Sign up for the spring Startup Experience course! (9 ECTS)
- Information on the effects of coronavirus on activities at Aalto University
UPCOMING EVENTS
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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. Join Puunjalostusinsinöörit
4. 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.
5. Coffee breaks
Coffee breaks are held on Mondays at 17.00 via Zoom. A Zoom link for coffee breaks can be found on the PT Info Channel. The next coffee breaks: 22.3. and 29.3
Welcome!
6. 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/
7. 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.
8. 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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9. Metsä and Board
What kinds of issues do Metsä Fibre and board solve? How are they solved? How can you help?
You will get the answers to these questions in PJK’s and Metsä Group’s case night 7.4.2021. Remotely organized event fits 16 guild members and 4 freshmen, who are formed into four teams. There are four mentors, who work as advisors in this playful competition. Participating is free.
Registration opens in guild’s ilmomasiina on Wednesday 24.3. at 12. Participating requires Teams connection and working webcam and microphone.
What? Case night PJK x Metsä Group
Where? Teams
When? 7.4.2021 17->
Why? Because problem solving is fun!
10. Greetings from CHEM repco group
Representative council meeting 2/2021 of Aalto University Student Union (AYY) was held on Thursday 19th of March remotely via Zoom. There were 41 members of repco present and the meeting lasted about three hours. You can watch the meeting recording from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI32Yc8S0sE and the meeting documents are available in AYY Inside: https://inside.ayy.fi/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=68092004
The next representative council is organized on the 21st of April at 17:15. Topics include decision on the project agreement of the Student Center Project, and first approval of changes to the Student Union rules. Links to the live streams of the meeting can always be found from 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
For now, AYY doesn’t recommend organizing any private events that involve close contacts. Neither does AYY organize any public events itself. During spring 2021 AYY will not hold any larger public events and strives to organize remote events and small group events according to possibilities imposed by the current situation. For example the AYY annual ball that was to be held on 15th of May will be moved to the end of the year. All rentable AYY spaces are closed until 4th of April and the matter will be handled again on week 13 the latest, according to updates to the capital region corona restrictions. The service office remains temporarily closed and is only open on moving days to those moving. It is however possible to receive service office services via phone and email.
There have been personnel changes at the office. Johanna Mikkonen, who has previously been an English translator, has been chosen to be a project worker in the renewal of association categorization. Eetu Manninen, completing civil service, has started as IT support person and graphic designer Iina Sillfors has left AYY. Karmen Hellenum has started as Sillfors’ replacement.
AYY has publicly commented on student wellbeing and Finnish government action regarding handling of corona. You can find the blog post by board member Tiina Pajukari here. In addition the Ministry of Education and Culture has granted the student union extra aid. A review of uses is under way, and the membership has also been consulted.
During the start of the year there have been nine new association applications to operate within AYY. The application period for operations grants is open until the end of June. RemoteWappu 2021 planning is underway and new teekkari caps have been ordered from Wahlman.
Negotiations on door opening services with Securitas have progressed well, and an inexpensive agreement has been reached and will be communicated to tenants soon.
Preliminary debates
A preliminary debate on changes to the AYY rules was done at the meeting. The discussion and comments will be used to prepare final drafts for the next representative council meetings. The proposals include changes to election eligibility, representative council meetings, remote meetings, membership fees, the museum, and the position of trust of representative council members. CHEM repco group also had its own comments on the changes, mostly regarding the proposed change to temporarily suspend representative council members from meetings for poor or damaging behaviour.
Other things
The National Union of University Students in Finland (SYL) send their greetings to the repco meeting. The SYL representative was Konstantin Kouzmitchev, our student union’s contact person, who told us about news regarding the corona situation and the SYL centennial. In addition the meeting included a financial review of association activities from last year and latest developments of the student center project.
11. 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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12. Aalto Space user experience survey for students
How has the Aalto Space application assisted you on campus? What’s working, what could be improved, what challenges have Aalto University’s COVID policies brought forth?
Tell us by answering a survey, and participate in a draw to win a fantastic Xiaomi robot vacuum mop! Answering the survey takes a few minutes. We will utilize the results to develop the application, so all feedback is welcome!
The survey is held by Aalto University Campus & Real Estate (ACRE)
13. Sign up for the spring Startup Experience course! (9 ECTS)
Learn how to think and build like an entrepreneur to face the uncertainty of the world as it is now. During this course, you will learn the essentials of entrepreneurship: user-centered design, opportunity recognition, teamwork, pitching and much more.
While the focus of the course is on founding a startup, the skills and mindset you will learn are equally valuable in existing companies or NGO’s. Sign up to solve meaningful problems related to sustainability in multidisciplinary teams!
Read more about the course here: https://avp.aalto.fi/avp-course/startup-experience/
14. 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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15. Kesäkuntoon 2020
Are you feeling stressed? Thinking that meditation would improve your focus and wellbeing? But you’re just not motivated to start? Well in the Kesäkuntoon 2021 event you will be rewarded for meditation! Nothing complicated, just take 10 minutes to yourself a few days a week and you will reel in points for your group. It’s a Win-win scenario!
Last year for Kesäkuntoon 2020 we managed to arrange a bunch of sports try-outs to help everyone try new things. This time, that might be harder. We’ll see what we can do, but we encourage everyone to explore activities safely, keeping corona-related restrictions in mind! Some suggestions are: jumping rope, weighted hula hooping, HIIT videos on youtube, jogging, dancing or interval training!
If you haven’t already, this is a good time to join the official telegram group https://t.me/joinchat/aZwQhDqSIskxMGY8, and go to the @kesakuntoon_bot to set up your team! And we do suggest making a team of 3-4 people. You can do things together and share things with each other. Points can only be added every Sunday, so having a team to help remind yourselves is a great idea! And the bot will not give any reminders about meditation. If you’re struggling to find a group, feel free to message one of us!
PT: @jennillusion @annitoivoneen
TiK: @TheNipanen
Get ready to have fun and join the free, friendly lifestyle-improvement competition 15.3 – 25.4.
16. 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.
17. Secretary’s Regards
Last week I participated to Kavitaatio and it was really fun! Other than that, it is little bit sad that it’s hard to see anyone during these times.
Animal video of the week: trickery cats
News from the board
The last Saturday’s Kavitaatio was awesome, thank you so much fuksis! It was amazing to see how you used your creativity and created an event that involved and entertained participants. Thanks also to all who have responded to the remote studying survey. Everyone’s answer is valuable, and the results will be discussed with the School of Chemical Engineering. The spring meeting of the association has also kept the board busy. Remember to sign up!
Pyry Vartia
Spokesperson-secretary 2021 | Prosessiteekkarit ry
+358445953800 | tiedottajasihteeri@prosessiteekkarit.fi
School of Chemical Engineering | Aalto University
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