Organization
Student union is a large organization, which consists of members, representative council, board and employees. Here you can read more about each body, our strategy and the representative council’s meetings.
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Members of LTKY
According to Finnish university legislation, all degree students have to be members of a student union. Students will become members of the student union automatically after they have paid the student union membership fee. Post-graduate students may also join the student union but they have different befits. There are approximately 5000 members in LTKY, both under-graduate and post-graduate students.
Symbol of LTKY is the first letter of Hebrew alphabets, Aalef, in red circled by a black gearwheel. As a mathematical symbol Aalef stands for ‘one’ which can be seen as a symbol of unity in LTKY.
Representative Council
Members of LTKY elect the representative council by voting in council elections. Elections are held every other year in November and 27 representatives are elected. All under-graduate and post-graduate students can vote in the elections if they have paid the student union fee. Representative council is the highest decision-making body of the student union and they have meetings approximately once a month. Representative council elects the student union board, nominates student representatives, decides on the membership fee, and ratifies the budget.
The rules that guide the actions of the council can be read under the rules of Student Union. Minutes from council’s meetings can be found here.
The results from the Representative Council Elections in 2023 can be asked. Next representative council election is on year 2025.
Minutes of Representative Council’s meetings can be found here.
Representative Council 2024-2025
Chairs of the representative council ([email protected])
Chair of the Representative Council
Eriku Kuitunen
[email protected]
040 418 3776
1st Vice Chair of the Representative Council
Jatta Mikkanen
2nd Vice Chair of the Representative Council
Alfred Sirbu
Contact persons of the unions:
LIT Alfred Sirbu
NEON Antti Karhunen
JÄÄRÄ Pinla Nokkanen
KTOKK Samuel Mustakallio
POPPARI Ronja Hasa
PI Ari Holahan
MEGA Robin Karlsson
KOMI Niilo Hendolin
PMMP Eetu Vilenius
LIPAS Ryan Coombes
Council members of the unions:
LIT
- Mengshi Qi
- Alfred Sirbu
- Melody Hosseini
- Vera Andersson
JÄÄRÄ
- Juho Kaitero
- Jonna Roponen
- Katja Immonen
- Erik Kuitunen
- Taru Haimi
POPPARI
- Ronja Hasa
MEGA
- Joonas Kavén
- Valtteri Erkkilä
- Jatta Mikkanen
- Merika Kiurula
NEON
- Anselmi Auramo
- Heikki Helppi
- Tino Hakanen
- Mari Salmi
- Santeri Honkanen
- Saga Laitinen
KTOKK
- Veeti Salminen
PI
- Maksim Vakulenko
- Emilia Kaltz
- Antonette Patagan
KOMI
- Jan-Peter Kauppinen
- Aminul Islam
PMMP
- Maija Keränen
Board
Board uses the administrative and executive power given by the representative council. The Board’s mission is to direct the daily activities in the student union. The Board includes a chairman and six board members with different duties. The Board meets regularly but all board members are in a fulltime commitment to Student Union. Board selects the secretariat and can hire project secretaries if needed. The Board works for both Lappeenranta and Lahti campuses.
Chair of the Board
Anselmi Auramo
[email protected]
045 647 1116
Vice-Chair of the Board,
International affairs, Organisations
Simon Hajjar
[email protected]
044 218 8495
Corporate Relations, Financials, Events (Lappeenranta)
Hanna Veteli
[email protected]
044 293 8810
Social Politics, Communications
Saga Laitinen
[email protected]
044 293 8808
Advocacy, Corporate Relations and Member Services (Lahti)
Avaneep Kamal
[email protected]
044 294 8811
Higher Education Politics, Municipal Politics, Elections
Heikki Helppi
[email protected]
040 574 9017
Culture, Tutoring, Sustainability (Lappeenranta)
Katja Immonen
[email protected]
044 293 8809
Culture, Tutoring, Events (Lahti)
Eerika Närhi
[email protected]
044 235 5575
Employees
Task of the employees is to take care of different duties assigned to it by the Board. Head of employees is Executive Director who is responsible of general administration, office functions and government of the employees. The employees work in either the Lappeenranta or Lahti offices, but handle the affairs of both campuses. The Executive Director works weekly at both offices.
The following employees work permanently at LTKY: Executive Director, Office secretary, Secretary of member services, Advocacy Expert, Community Specialist and Communications Specialist.
The Student Union also has secretarial positions that work on different projects, such as a Secretary of annual celebration.
Executive director
Arttu Kaukinen
General administration, finance
[email protected]
044 293 8818
Office secretary
Virpi Partti
Office servicers, invoicing
[email protected]
044 293 8803
Advocacy Expert
Tiia Kettunen
Advocacy policies, HallOpEd -processes, Feedbacks, Exam archive, Harassment contact person activity
[email protected]
044 293 8825
Secretary of member services
Petra Sjögren
Associations, member services, spaces, communication
[email protected]
044 293 8819
Communications Specialist
Roosa Pehkonen
Informing, publishing, communications
[email protected]
044 293 8823