Do you want to be the one affecting student’s matters both locally and nationwide? Are you interested in students’ well-being, living and free-time? Do you want to make new contacts around Finland? Do you want to take part on creating the Finland’s longest wappu? If you say yes, we need you! Apply for the board 2024!
In the student union board you have a chance to work for students. In LTKY we do supervision of interests, work with different stakeholders, organize events and do communication and our number one goal is that every student is doing well both in Lappeenranta and in Lahti. Therefore now it’s time to collect a motivated and enthusiastic board to carry out next year’s plan.
These broad sectors will be chosen:
- Chair of the Board
- Vice Chair
- Higher Education Politics
- Social Politics
- Environment and Sustainability
- Culture
- International Affairs
Besides these at least the following sectors will be divided among board members:
- Corporate relations and Economics
- Events
- Associations
- Tutoring
- Communications
- Municipal Politics
- Lahti Campus
The application period is until 19 November 2023. Deliver your board or chair of the board application directly to the Executive Director Arttu Kaukinen ([email protected]). The application should be a short introduction of yourself and why you want to be part of the board. You can also express if you have a specific board task that you are interested in. Board sectors will be introduced on LTKY social media and on Alive article.
The board is paid a fee. The new board will be trained in December.
Applicants, who have sent their applications by 19 November will have a chance to attend to the election panel and will gain the most extensive social media coverage.
You can however, nominate yourself as an applicant by the representative council meeting on 4 December 2023. The new representative council will elect the new board in the meeting on 4 December 2023.
For more information about the board activities, you can contact the current board member, see contact info here.
Note that part of the board activities will be had only in Finnish. However, lacking Finnish skills is not a disqualifying factor for applying and becoming a board member.