TAMK in Indian television

TAMK teachers and students visited India and got interviewed by the local TV9.

Here's the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCKWxv1wj9A

The Finnish week of Universities of Applied Sciences in Bangalore was shown also in Deccan Herald news paper: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/234385/saying-hello-finland.html

New international tutors are trained and ready!

Among many other TAMK students, Jyrki Paldán and Jarkko Oksanen took part in the International Tutor Training organized by Tamko Student Union this week.

The engineering students Jarkko and Jyrki are already looking forward to the arrival of the exchange students next autumn. They have both been already in exchange, Jyrki in Iceland and Jarkko in Hungary, and they enjoyed their time abroad. Now they have a possibility to meet new people and have international contacts in Finland too. Jarkko wishes to have a Hungarian tutoree in order to learn some Hungarian language.

As they both have already exchange experience and also experience of being a peer tutor, they’re convinced that being an international tutor can’t be difficult. The first task to the tutors is to contact their tutorees in June and help them with the arrangements by answering to the tricky questions that incoming students might have.

During the two sessions this week, the becoming tutors learned a lot of useful information about practical matters, tutor’s responsibilities, cultural challenges etc. The participants of the training represented many different TAMK degree programs and campuses including Kuntokatu, Virrat, Ikaalinen and Finlayson campuses.

Text and photo: Kaisa Merilahti, International Services

Visitors from JAMK

TAMK International Services hosted a visit by colleagues from JAMK University of Applied Sciences: International Relations Manager Nina Björn, International Relations Planner Maarit Sinikangas and International Relations Secretaries Anu Lietonen and Sini Nousiainen.

The aim of the visitors was to familiarize themselves with TAMK International Services’ operations and how they differ from their own. This was best accomplished by presentations both ways and vivid discussions with each visitor’s counterparts.

During the day it became clear that although methods may vary, objectives and outcomes are quite the same. Within the JYTA consortium (Jyväskylä-Tampere, naturally) collaboration has always been close and international activities have been a spearhead in many cases.

Together we can offer more to our foreign guests and students and can share resources to focus on the essential. After all - Jyväskylä is not that far away.

Inland Finland rules!

Text & Photos: Sanna Hosike, Trainee, International Services

Ice Screen Project 2012 opening @ Finlayson

ISP 2012 :: Teaser Trailer from hermaxx on Vimeo.


It seems that in our fast-changing, crowded with new technologies world, everything is so common that there is nothing to amaze us. But the idea of a unique project organized by TAMK is a challenge. During one week of cutting and lifting ice blocks from a frozen lake in Lapland and assembling them to huge-sized custom-shaped ice screens which are being projected on, students are given the opportunity not only to work with ice in terms of large-scale sculpturing but also to explore new ways and possibilities of interactive visual installments.
Project is an opportunity for creative students to implement their visual creations on the prepared ice blocks. The format of those creations can differ from a picture on an ice block to the interactive video installation. 
Ice screen project – is a unique opportunity to expand the perception of ice by adding innovations. It transforms nature to a space where people are involved into visual world and touch the sense of new experience.
With the help of newest media devices we present the Ice screen project exhibition 2012. 

We invite You to the exhibition opening at
Spede (2nd floor), TAMK Finlayson campus
on Thursday 4p.m

New winter experiences

Eszter, Rebeka, Iris and Winnii enjoying the winter

The break from studies this week offered great possibilities to do winter activities. Also some of the exchange students took advantage of it and tried cross-country skiing for the first time in their lives. 

Eszter and Rebeka from Hungary and Iris and Winnii from Hongkong borrowed the ski equipment from TAMK and headed to the Kauppi Sports Park, situated right next to the Kuntokatu campus, where there is a wide range of tracks for cross-country skiing.

The day before, the girls already did ice-skating but the ice was already getting too soft. So now it’s the time to try out all the winter activities before the snow will melt away!

 

If you are interested in borrowing ski equipment, contact TAMK Sports Coordinator Esko Tirkkonen (esko.tirkkonen@tamk.fi)

Text and photo: Kaisa Merilahti, International Services