Tsemppi will be discussing this year’s activities and forming its new board on Thursday, February 9th at 6pm and we are eager to get new active members. The place of the meeting is Tsemppi room, Mannerheimintie 5B, 4th floor, at the end of the corridor. All Tsemppi members are welcome to the meeting even just to participate in the discussion

The Helsinki Times recently published an article dealing with international students’  opportunities to participate in administration and decision making at the university.

We would like to hear your opinion on the issues raised in this article. Share your comments on this post and you will have the chance to win a ticket to Tallinn for two persons.

To be eligible, post your comments by Monday, December 2nd at midnight. We have 40 tickets to give away (valid until December 23rd) The winners will be chosen using a random number generator and we will then contact you via e-mail to let you know when and where you can pick up your tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: in order to keep things organized, only comments posted to the Tsemppi website will be taken into consideration. Comments via Facebook or the mailing list will not be counted.

Welcome to our first party of the season! Join us on September 14th at the party hall at Ida Albergintie 1, starting from 19:00. Bring your friends, bring some drinks and come mingle and meet new people. There will be free sauna, swimming pool access and just the right atmosphere for you to make new friends. We hope to see you there!

Tsemppi will hold an Extraordinary General Meeting on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 18:00. The main aims of the meeting will be to discuss Tsemppi’s role in this fall’s HYY elections, as well as changes to this year’s Tsemppi Board.

There are no requirements to attend; all are welcome to join. In particular, we encourage those interested in the upcoming elections, as well as anyone who would like to get involved as a Tsemppi volunteer to come to the meeting!

Preliminary Agenda:

1. Tsemppi in HYY (student union) elections of student representatives
2. Changes to 2011 Tsemppi Board
3. Fall 2011 activities and events

The meeting will take place in the Tsemppi Room on Wednesday, August 31, 18:00-20:00 (New Student House, Mannerheimintie 5B, B-staircase, 4th floor). To get there, take the elevator or stairs to the 4th floor and then turn right until the end of the corridor, it’s the door on the right, which will be open.

Hope to see many of you there!

Kate Jurva
On behalf of the Tsemppi Board

Tsemppi will be on hand at the University of Helsinki’s Opening Carnival on Monday, September 5. This a great opportunity for new and old members of the university community to kick off the new academic year and get to know different organizations. Come by Tsemppi’s booth to say hello!

Exact location to be announced before the event.

Hello all,

It’s time for another Board Games Night! We’ll meet next Saturday, May 21, at 18:00 in Cajsa room in the New Student House for a night of fun and games and good company!

The concept is simple: Bring your favorite board or card games and we will play them together. And even if you don’t have any games yourself don’t worry, there will be some games for different tastes on the table.

So drop in at any time during the evening, to play some games. Or just come to hang out with some old and new friends in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

We hope to see you there!

Also check out the facebook event!

Tsemppi is celebrating the beginning of the outdoors season with a pub night starting at terrace-bar Café Piritta on Friday, May 20 at 19:00.

Come and enjoy the evening sun in the company of internationally minded people and remember why Helsinki is such a great place to live in (at least in summer time)! After a couple of drinks, we’ll move on to some of the other bars in Kallio.

You are all very welcome to join us! Also check out the facebook event!

The Tsemppi team

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting on February 21, 2011

Place: Tsemppi room, Mannerheimintie 5B, 4^th floor.

Attending: Mohsen, Kate, Johanna, Tianyan, Laura, Giuseppe, Liisa, Linge, Henrik

1§ Discussion and Approval of Annual Reports

The annual report 2010 was discussed, minor changes were made, and the report approved by the meeting.

The financial report 2010 was discussed, and it was decided to suspend its approval until a new version will be send to the participants of this meeting, and approval was given later via e-mail once the financial report was polished.

The action plan for 2011 was discussed and it was decided to create a google-document, which will be jointly edited so that additional plans regarding the strategy towards Master’s degree students will be included. The document will be edited until Thursday and then uploaded to the tahlo-interface. The action plan 2011 was approved.

It was decided to update the information of the Tsemppi-slot on the organizational blackboard in the main building of the University and to create a new mission statement for Tsemppi that will replace the information available on the website and in all external presentation of the organization.

2 § Election of auditor

Tianyan Liu was elected auditor for 2011.

3§ Release of the previous Board

The previous Board was released.

4§ Changes in the Regulations of Tsemppi

It was decided to change the official name of Tsemppi from “The name of the organization is TSEMPPI – an organization for international degree students at the University of Helsinki (the rules of Tsemppi, article 1.1) to “TSEMPPI – an organization for internationally-minded people at the University of Helsinki” in order to better reflect the members of Tsemppi, who are also PhD-students, Post-docs, etc. and cannot be subsumed under the label “international degree students” any longer.

5§ Elections of the New Board

Katrina Jurva was elected President.

Laura Sibinescu was elected Secretary / Vice-President.

Feiran Long was elected Treasurer.

Giuseppe Lugano was elected PhD-coordinator.

Mohsen Saadatmand was elected coordinator for post-docs and PhD-students.

Henrik Schmidt was elected board member responsible for social events.

Liisa Ketolainen was elected board member responsible for social and political affairs.

Søren Berg-Rasmussen was elected board member responsible for external relations.

Giangabriele Casci was elected board member responsible for IT support.

Linge Ayubah and Johanna Leinius were elected board members.

6§ Other issues

There will be a dropbox-folder created where Tsemppi will collect templates and relevant documents, creating an institutional memory that will provide continuity for its organizational life so that no knowledge will be lost.

7§ Next Meeting

The next Tsemppi meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 8, at 17:00h. This year’s strategy and a schedule of events will be discussed.

Dear all,

Tsemppi invites you all to its annual general meeting, which will be held on February 21 at 5 PM in the Tsemppi room.

The main point on the agenda is the election of the new board of Tsemppi and a discussion about the future of Tsemppi. What is happening right now is that the ‘old’ active members are gradually becoming less active in the organization, which means that now is the perfect opportunity for you to influence where Tsemppi is going!

So be welcome to the meeting, whether you have been active in Tsemmpi or not, whether you know what Tsemppi is about or whether you simply want to see how student organizations work “behind the scenes”. We will start this year with a much smaller board and we would like to encourage new people to also stand for positions on the board when interested. Please look at our webpage (www.tsemppi.com) for information about the current board and our activities.

The agenda of the meeting is
I Discussion about Tsemppi’s Agenda for the Year
II Releasing the old Board
III Election of the new Board
IV Other Matters

The meeting will take place in the Tsemppi Room on Monday 21 February at 17:00 (New Student House, Mannerheimintie 5B, B-staircase, 4th floor). To get there, take the elevator or the stairs to the 4th floor and then turn right until the end of the corridor, it’s the door on the right, which will be open.

Even if you do not wish be on the board, feel free to come to the meeting as you have the right to vote for the new board and we would be happy about any input/criticism/suggestions you have.

Best regards,

Johanna (current chairperson of Tsemppi)

Hello to all english speaking Viikkiites (and everyone else, too)!

Based on the great response to last week’s friday drinks in our own friendly neighbourhood chain restaurant, we are going to do it again this week!

So stop playing with the magnetic stirrer, tear yourself away from watching the split values on your phylogenetics programme, and pull on your muddy boots to walk over to the Viikki Chicos at 5.30 for a relaxed drink or two.

If you have trouble finding us, call me at 0466 814 264– and if you want to get more messages for fun events like this, join the Tsemppi mailing list at tsemppi-org@helsinki.fi for events and informations specifically for international degree and PhD students.

Tervetuloa!

Rachel Strickman