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 7500 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 2026-2027
Chairs of the representative council ([email protected])
Chair of the Representative Council 2026
Katja Immonen
[email protected]
1st Vice Chair of the Representative Council 2026
Julia Liikkanen
2nd Vice Chair of the Representative Council 2026
Zuhayr Zaman
Contact persons of the unions:
LIT Nihan Suleiman
NEON Jonas Papathemelis
KTOKK Henrik Partanen
PI Guilherme Ribeiro
KOMI Veeti Sistonen
RUORI Olli Aula
TYST Jimi Lipiäinen
PUTELI Simon Hajjar
PUTELITO Tuomas Mustonen
Council members of the unions:
LIT
- Zuhayr Zaman
- Siluni Elpitiya
- Nihan Suleiman
- Avaneep Kamal
TYST
- Ranja Ruotoistenmäki
RUORI
- Seeti Salonen
- Olli Aula
- Vilja Tallgren
- Niilo Väänänen
PUTELI
- Milja Nylund
- Katja Immonen
- Ville Ketola
PUTELITO
- Tuomas Mustonen
- Valtteri Erkkilä
NEON
- Julia Liikkanen
- Heikki Helppi
- Deb Jauty Paul
- Sampo Lindgren
- Mikaela Pekkarinen
KTOKK
- Janne Heiskanen
- Joonas Rantonen
PI
- Emilia Kaltz
- Muhaiminul Islam
- Guilherme Ribeiro
KOMI
- Jukka Laihosola
- Veeti Sistonen
- Miro Muinonen
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, financials
Ryan Coombes
[email protected]
040 6601 620
Vice-Chair of the Board,
corporate relations, municipal politics
Mari Murtomäki
[email protected]
044 2938 808
Communication, regional units
Oona Koivisto
[email protected]
044 7734 278
Social policy, sustainability
Iisa Vaara
[email protected]
044 5777 761
Educational policy, social policy (Lahti)
Vera Stojcheva
[email protected]
040 6852 840
Educational policy
Sara Taskila
[email protected]
045 2072 003
Culture, tutoring, associatons (Lappeenranta)
Samuel Mustakallio
[email protected]
044 9988 199
Culture, events, tutoring (Lahti)
Delia Fliscu
[email protected]
046 6312 547
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, Member services coordinators, Higher education policy specialist, Social politics specialts and Communications specialist.
The Student Union also has coordinator positions that work on different projects.
Executive Director
Arttu Kaukinen
General administration, finance
[email protected]
044 293 8818
Financial Specialist
Virpi Partti
Office servicers, invoicing
[email protected]
044 293 8803
Higher Education Policy Specialist
Henna Raekorpi
Advocacy, higher education policy
[email protected]
044 293 8825
Member Services Coordinator
Petra Sjögren
Associations, member services, spaces (Lappeenranta)
[email protected]
044 293 8819
Communication Specialist
Roosa Pehkonen
Communication, informing, publishing
[email protected]
044 293 8823
Petra Tarula
Associations, member services, student cards, spaces (Lahti)
[email protected]
044 293 8844