International student tutoring for exchange students
These guidelines are meant for incoming exchange students at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) in Finland.
Student tutor
Students´ Union Tamko will assign student tutor to each exchange student.
Your tutor will contact you by e-mail and help you with any questions that you may have before your arrival (check also your spam folder if you have not heard form you tutor in a while). The tutors also offer to pick you up from the airport, bus station, or railway station within Tampere region and help you get your keys from the housing agency. Tutors can also help you during the semester with example enrolling you to courses, showing you the city or student culture.
Survival Kits
Tamko and Club International Tampere (CLINT) rent Survival Kits, which contain basic facilities such as kitchen utensils and bed linen for a student flat for the exchange period. The Survival Kit is designed to assist the foreign students to settle in their rooms.
The Survival Kit is a practical set of household essentials designed for short-term for exchange students. It includes dining items, basic cookware, and necessary kitchen utensils. The kit also comes with essential bedding, a bed sheet, blanket with cover, pillow with pillowcase.
Part of the price of the kit is a refundable deposit. The deposit will be refunded after returning the whole Survival Kit unbroken and clean back to the Student Union office. If something is missing, broken or dirty when returning the Kit, the deposit will not be refunded.
Your tutor will share you a link where you can read more about Survival Kit and order it if you wish to. If you do not get the link or you have other questions about the Survival Kit you can send en email to Tamko, office [at] tamko.fi (office[at]tamko[dot]fi).