Ten years ago I sat on the cold floor of the school's sport hall with ten immigrants. Of the fourty-girl-group, I was the last Finn not to be chosen for either of the teams. The immigrant class was forced to take gym lessons with Finns, Finns were forced to interact with foreigners.
Nobody wanted them to their teams because they did not speak Finnish and had too difficult names to be remembered. I was not regarded any higher even though I was a Finn.
I wanted to say something for them, but was too afraid. What if they do not understand me?
Year 2009. I sit in the cafeteria with people all around the world. We are soon Bachelors of Environmental engineering, friendly Enves. Table with Enves can be seen and heard. People with different clothes, colours, religions, manners...All laughing and having intriguing conversations. No Enves are ever left alone. Somebody being absent is immediately missed. We call up each others, hang out together, have famous Enve parties... Some of us are better in mathematics and physics, some in laboratory works. Sometimes we sit down and help each other in school assignments. Nobody is ever isolated or picked on.
Soon I will not see my precious friends every day. After practical training I will graduate. My foreign friends will probably move back to their own countries. But never will I forget the years I spent in TAMK, Environmental engineering.
That was the best time in my life.
(Written by a 3rd year environmental engineering student)
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Wednesday, 21 January 2009
Conference on Climate change in New Zealand - lessons learned
The Snowchange Conference was held in year 2008 in New Zealand. In the conference a group of students and a project coordinator from TAMK R&D learned more about: climatic change, Maori culture, microhydropower, ecological neighbourhoods and about wastewater treatment in Sydney, Australia.
Come and hear more on Tue 27.1.2009 at 10. - 12.00 in TAMK, (Teiskontie) auditorium E1-06.
The event is free and open for everyone, no enrolments are needed. The seminar will be held in English. Welcome to hear about the experiences and more importantly about the future plans and how you might be able to participate!
(Click the poster to enlarge it)
Sunday, 18 January 2009
Want to Study in English at TAMK? Apply Now!
Applying to programmes conducted in English at Finnish universities of applied sciences (UAS) takes place through a System of Joint Application (Yhteishaku in Finnish). Prospective students can apply to four different degree programmes at UAS using the same application form.
The application period for studies starting in August 2009 started last Monday, and will close on Friday February 13th 2009, 4:15 PM Finnish time (+2 GMT).
Applicants to TAMK Media programme also need to return the pretask to TAMK by February 13th.
The entrance examinations at TAMK will be:
- Media April 21
- International Business April 28
- Environmental Engineering May 5
Admitted students must confirm their study places by 4 August 2009 at 4.15 pm Finnish time at the latest.
The Joint Application period for UAS study programmes taught in Finnish or Swedish is March 23 - April 9.
Bachelor's Degree applications at TAMK
Photo: TAMK main campus early one winter morning
Monday, 12 January 2009
The New Exchange Students Have Arrived
TAMK University of Applied Sciences is truly international. There are 175 degree students from 45 countries studying at TAMK. Next year there will be more, as the new Degree Programme in Media taught in English will start.
Also the exchange students coming from the 160 international partner universities add to the international atmosphere. Last week 70 exchange students from 20 countries started their studies with the orientation studies, today they already took part in classes in our degree programmes.
Photo: A group of the new exchange students who study at TAMK main campus made an excursion to the Finlayson campus in the city center, and learned about the TAMK School of Art and Media and the ProAcademy. The tour ended at the roof garden.
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Colin Muir, Mr. MA in Screenwriting
Colin Muir, Programme Leader of MA in Screenwriting - the Salford University and TAMK joint programme, is a frequent visitor at TAMK School of Art and Media.
The MA in Screenwriting works half time in Tampere, half time in Manchester, UK. Colin just spent a week in Tampere, meeting the students and discussing the further development of the programme.
The students of the first MA in Screenwriting group are graduating in January 2010, and the second group started in September.
Colin says that this programme differs in some ways from the ordinary programmes arranged in one university only. There is a better balance between the creative possibilities of the individual and the common interests of the film industry.
Another difference is that we are maintaining the relation to students after they graduate, Colin points out. We assist the students with the best scripts to Cannes, Berlin Film Festival and even to the American film market in Los Angeles.
The results seem good. Studying in a new place gives time and space to the students, a chance to see the world in new ways - this helps to be creative.
Colin tells that in the future students will not be recruited in Finland and UK only, there are discussions to extend the activity to Germany and Austria, even USA.
Colin was born in Edinburgh. He has an MFA in Theatre Directing from the University of Connecticut and an MFA in Film and Television Directing from Temple University in Philadelphia. He worked in USA as a director, producer and scriptwriter. Since 1991 he has been teaching at the University of Salford. He is Programme leader for the MA in Television and Radio Scriptwriting and the MA in Film Screenwriting. He is also a director of the Film Production Company.
Master of Art in Screenwriting
Photo: Colin Muir at the roof garden of TAMK Finlayson Campus
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