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JAMKO’s trusteeship – For your studentlife!

The Merriam-Webster’s definition for trusteeship is: Trusteeship: the office or function of a trustee. As a student's trustee JAMKO’s the most important work is the trusteeship work. In Finnish the word for trusteeship (edunvalvonta) rhymes with word...

Safety is an interest of ours

Everyone’s equal treatment, mental health services and being heard and seen. These are the things that new students wished for the most when they were asked “How do you define a safe University of Applied Sciences?”. The question wasn’t easy espe...

The eventful spring of YYamk project

There have been multiple steps forward during this spring in JAMKO and Jamk’s project Equal and United University of Applied Sciences (YYamk). The project will continue until the end of this year and the plans made this spring are moving towards ...

Together to the safer and brighter spring

Old and new students, welcome to the campuses! Congratulations to the all new students of Jamk! We hope you had a relaxing break before the studies kicked off. Many students might have worries about the future- prices of electricity rising, prices...

Road to JAMKO: Nilla

I have been thinking about getting involved in organization activities. As an engineering student I thought about applying for the Jyväskylä Engineering Students Association (JIO ry), but mostly I dreamed about going to the student exchange for t...

The Road to JAMKO: Lauri

I got an email from Eeva Vissel that I should go to listen to the board info of JAMKO’s board. I sat there and listened and thought to myself, that this might not be a thing for me. I was scared to represent all of the students of JAMK when I had e...

How do you define a well-being University of Applied Sciences?

Jamk’s well-being projects (YYamk, OHKE and AHK) have together gathered up and taken a place at campuses. We had a stand at Rajakatu and Dynamo’s lobbies 31.8. and right the next day 1.9. at Jamk’s Back to Campus festival. We asked students two quest...

About mentoring

Writer: Marika Väisänen I started studying in JAMK in Bachelor of Hospitality Management program in autumn 2019. It became clear during my first year that tutoring could be my thing because I've been working as a workplace instructor at my job...

What does a county council do?

Let’s get to know the county council from the basics which means the health and social services reform. This reform together with regional government reform means that health and social services are being reformed so that the responsibility of health...