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Survival Guide for International Students and Trainees in Lappeenranta Lappeenranta University of Technology Survival Guide for International Students and Trainees in Lappeenranta www.lut.fi Survival Guide for International Students and Trainees in Lappeenranta 1. Lappeenranta University of Technology 4 2. Important Practical Matters 4 2.1. Residence / Work Permits 4 2.2. Health / Travel Insurance 7 2.3. Civil Registration 7 2.4. Taxation 8 3. Arriving in Finland 8 3.1. What to Bring Along 8 3.2. How to Get to Lappeenranta 9 3.3. On Arrival / Tutors 9 3.4. Orientation Program 10 3.5. Check-List for International Students at LUT 10 4. Life in Finland 10 4.1. The Country 10 4.2. The Finns 12 4.3. Equality 12 4.4. Way of Life 13 4.5. Visiting Friends 13 4.6. Nature and Seasons 13 4.7. Finnish Currency, Standards or Measurements and Time Systems 14 4.8. Education 14 4.9. Driving License 15 4.10. National Holidays 16 4.11. Sauna 16 4.12. Alcohol and Smoking 17 4.13. Drugs 17 5. Life in Lappeenranta 17 5.1. University 17 5.3 The Cost of Living and Shopping 20 5.4. Health Care 20 5.5. Local Transportation 21 5.6. Banking 21 5.7. Postal Services 22 5.8. Laundry 22 5.9. Cinemas 22 6. Student Life 23 6.1. Student Union 23 6.2. Student Card 24 6.3. University Clubs and Associations 24 6.4. Traditional Events 25 6.5. Sports 26 7. Finnish Language 29 7.1. Pronunciation 29 7.2. Basic Expressions 29 8. Useful Addresses and Phone Numbers 29 OTHERS 29 Foreword Tervetuloa Lappeenrantaan! Welcome to Lappeenranta! The International Services and the Student Union of Lappeenranta University of Technology welcome you and wish you a pleasant stay in Finland. The purpose of the Survival Guide is to provide you with information about Lappeenranta and Finland, as well as the Finnish way of life. We hope that this guide helps you to take your first steps in our country and town and, of course, at our University of Technology. You can find information about Lappeenranta at: www.lappeenranta.fi 1. Lappeenranta University The university campus is located on of Technology the shores of Lake Saimaa, which is the largest lake in Finland. The university is Lappeenranta University of Technology located some seven kilometres from the (LUT) was established in 1969 as a centre of the city of Lappeenranta and is national university of technology. LUT, surrounded by the picturesque Finnish as well as the 16 other universities in nature. Finland, are all state-run and financed Lappeenranta University of by the Ministry of Education. Technology operates in modern Lappeenranta University of premises. All teaching and research Technology is specialised in technology buildings are located in a joint campus and economics. About 5,000 students area in which new facilities are study in the various degree programmes constantly being built for the university offered by the university, and about students and researchers. 950 new students are admitted each year. There are about 350 postgraduate 2. Important Practical Matters students and 900 members of staff. The most outstanding feature of the 2.1. Residence / Work Permits university is the way in which it has successfully integrated expertise in All foreign students who wish to study technology and economics. LUT’s location in Finland for more than three months on the border between the EU and Russia are required to have a residence permit has also had a major impact on the (non-EU citizens) or register their university’s activities and orientation. residence (EU citizens). 4 5 Citizens of EU/EEA countries and insurance which covers the types of Switzerland must register their right treatment and costs that are covered by to reside in Finland at the local police. municipal health care services and the Citizens of the Nordic countries public health insurance system. (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland) Students are permitted to do a are registered by the Local Registry limited amount of paid work under a Offices. Nordic citizens must register residence permit issued for studies if their stay if residing in Finland for more the work is practical training included than six months. in the studies or final project work. To obtain a written certificate of Part-time employment is possible if the registration a student needs to fill working time comes to an average of 25 out a form at the local police station hours per week at most. There are no and include an attendance certificate limitations on working hours in full-time from LUT or a confirmation of the employment during holidays, specifically employment relationship or a certificate the summer and Christmas holidays. of employment from the employer, Please note: Although your residence a proof of having adequate health permit gives you the right to work you insurance cover and an account of should note that it is difficult to find jobs livelihood. A student needs to prove that in the Lappeenranta area. he/she has at least 560 EUR per month The trainees (salary-based or not) for living. The written certificate costs 50 coming from the EU/EEA countries and EUR and it is valid until further notice. Switzerland do not need a residence After registration an EU citizen can work permit. However, if the traineeship while studying in Finland and does not lasting for more than 90 days, the need to acquire a special work permit. trainees need to register their residence Citizens outside the EU/EEA countries at the local police after their arrival. For and Switzerland must always apply registering the residence, they will need for their first residence/work permit a certificate of their employment at LUT. by submitting an online application The registering of residence will cost the at eServices of Finnish Immigration trainees 50 EUR. Service (MIGRI) or at a Finnish embassy The trainees coming from outside the or a consulate in their home country EU/EEA countries and Switzerland must before leaving for Finland. The first always apply for a residence permit at residence permit is always issued for a Finnish Embassy or a consulate in a fixed term. The first permit is usually their home country, or submit an online granted for a year, unless the residence application at MIGRI eServices before permit is specifically applied for a leaving for Finland. The length of the shorter period. Students must be able traineeship plays no role in this rule – to prove that they have at their disposal the residence permit is always needed at least 560 EUR for a month or 6720 when working in Finland. EUR for a year. They also have to attach details of their comprehensive health 6 More information about when they apply for a residence permit, residence and work permits: otherwise their request for a resident www.migri.fi (Finnish permit will be rejected. Residence Immigration Service, MIGRI) permits cannot be issued for periods www.poliisi.fi (Police) that exceed the period of the insurance See contact information for the cover. For further information, please Finnish embassies abroad at: contact Finnish Missions abroad or the www.formin.finland.fi - Countries Finnish Immigration Service. and regions LUT has negotiated health insurance deals with Marsh/SIP. To buy the Marsh SIP insurance please go to Marsh/ 2.2. Health / Travel Insurance SIP webpage. This website allows you to purchase your health insurance All foreign students and trainees must online with a credit card. If you have have sufficient health/travel insurance any questions about the insurance, you while they are studying or working at must contact Marsh directly (see their LUT. For citizens of EU/EEA countries “contact us” section of the website). and Switzerland it is enough to obtain the European Health Insurance Card More information about MARSH/SIP (EHIC) from social security authorities at: www.sipinsurance.eu in their country of origin. The holders of the card are entitled to the same 2.3. Civil Registration benefits provided by the Finnish Insurance Institution as Finnish citizens. The Population Register Centre However, in addition a private health which operates under the Ministry of insurance is recommended. the Interior maintains an electronic The salary-based trainees are insured database known as the Population by LUT while working, but the non- Information System, which contains salary based trainees need to be insured information on Finnish and foreign either by their home university or they citizens who reside in Finland. It is need to have an insurance of their own compulsory for anyone staying in also while working. Finland for more than one year to Citizens of other countries (excluding register with the Local Register Office EU/EEA and Switzerland) must have (maistraatti). valid health insurance cover provided Your tutor will take you to the Local by a reliable and solvent company or Register Office and help you to fill out institution. Students whose period of the necessary forms. studies covers less than two years must have private insurance which covers the More information on the Population costs of medical treatment up to a value Registration Centre is available at: of EUR 100,000 (cost level in 2007). www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi Students must have insurance cover 7 2.4. Taxation 510 EUR/month tax-free and pay taxes of 35% for the rest of their monthly The following information on taxation salaries. in Finland has been obtained directly from the Finnish tax administration’s 3. Arriving in Finland websites. 3.1. What to Bring Along More information can be obtained at: www.vero.fi When coming to Finland there are some things you should bring with you.
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