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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

Kuva Jatta Mikkanen

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
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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.

Kuva Anselmi Auramo

Chair of the Board
Anselmi Auramo
[email protected]
045 647 1116

Kuva Simon Hajjar

Vice-Chair of the Board,
International affairs, Organisations
Simon Hajjar
[email protected]
044 218 8495

Kuva Hanna Veteli

Corporate Relations, Financials, Events (Lappeenranta)
Hanna Veteli
[email protected]
044 293 8810

Kuva Saga Laitinen

Social Politics, Communications
Saga Laitinen
[email protected]
044 293 8808

Kuva Avaneep Kamal

Advocacy, Corporate Relations and Member Services (Lahti)
Avaneep Kamal
[email protected]
044 294 8811

Kuva Heikki Helppi

Higher Education Politics, Municipal Politics, Elections
Heikki Helppi
[email protected]
040 574 9017

Kuva Katja Immonen

Culture, Tutoring, Sustainability (Lappeenranta)
Katja Immonen
[email protected]
044 293 8809

Kuva Eerika Närhi

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.

Lappeenranta campus

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

Lahti campus
Community Specialist
Pia Kuosmanen
Community development, member service
[email protected]
044 293 8812

Communications Specialist
Roosa Pehkonen
Informing, publishing, communications
[email protected]
044 293 8823