Well-being calendar
Check out the Joint Guidance and Counselling Services' group offerings for the academic year 2024–2025, and join us! The Joint Guidance and Counselling Services offer a wide range of group guidance services related to well-being, study skills and career planning, provided by study psychologists, guidance counsellors, career counsellors and individual arrangements specialists, as well as peer counsellors. Below you will find the group offerings by period. Please note that registration is required for some groups. Detailed links to events and news on the Intranet, with possible registration links, will be updated in the group information throughout the academic year.
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1st Period
Well-being and study skills
Orientation, Service Fair: Tuesday 20.8. at 10–15 (Hervanta) and 21.8. at 10–15 (City Centre Campus)
- More details will follow.
Info session about individual study arrangements: Fri 30.8. at 11.00–11.30 (online)
Student's well-being and life skills course (26.8.–13.10., 1 ECTS) : Student's Compass lecture, Introduction to Student's Compass: Thu 29.8. at 14.15–15.00 (on Zoom)
- The Student’s Compass is a research-based virtual well-being and life skills programme. The Student’s Compass (Opiskelijan Kompassi in Finnish) offers new perspectives and practical tools to everyday problems students encounter in their studies. The web-based programme consists of various themes and exercises that are available as both text and voice or video recordings.
Tools for better concentration: Tue 17.9. at 14.15–15.45 (City Centre Campus)
- We usually notice our ability to concentrate only, when we have lost the focus. This lecture introduces practical tools for keeping the concentration throughout your study sessions.
Joint lectures: Study skills and self-management: Mon 23.9. at 10–12 (online)
- More details will follow.
Study & Stay III: Make the Most of Your Second Year: Tue 24.9. at 14.30–16.00 (City Centre Campus)
- Study & Stay is a Tampere University Community programme of activities and services for all our international degree students. The aim of the programme is to support international students to study, live and work or start a business in the Tampere Area. Study & Stay is introduced at Tampere University in the Welcome week and in the orientation course. After that there will be a Study & Stay session every semester, coordinated by Tampere University Career Services. In the sessions we introduce relevant services and give lots of tips and advice, for example about how to find an internship or summer job, where to get help if you want to develop your entrepreneurial thinking or how to start your job search.
101 Ways to Study: Mon 7.10. at 12–14 (City Centre Campus)
- More details will follow.
Calendar Care – Manage your time, workshop: Thu 10.10. at 14–16 (online)
Do you repeatedly end up doing something completely different from what you had in mind? Are you unable to get started in studying or something else that you need to do?
In Calendar care we stop for a moment to talk about how effective planning and routines can help you advance your studies and how you can complete tasks on time. You will get tips on time management and getting started and you can discuss your own routines and time management ideas with other students.
Get Stuff Done -study sessions: weekly (Online)
- Does it feel challenging to grab your books, stay focused or study independently? To support independent studying, the Get Stuff Done! -study sessions are organised by TAMK and Tampere University. The Get Stuff Done! sessions utilise the Pomodoro study technique. The sessions last approx. 2 hours, which includes three runs (25 minutes intensive studying, 5 minutes rest). In the sessions, you will study independently with a staff member timing your work and breaks. You can come along to, for example, read for an exam, write your study diary, do research for a thesis or compose an essay. You don't have to open your camera or microphone during the session. If the technique is not familiar to you, don’t worry, as we will introduce its basics at the start of each session. The sessions are open to all students from Tampere University and TAMK. The meetings are bilingual.
Puhutaan suomea! –conversation club: every 2 weeks, start. 7.3. (Rotating in City centre, then Hervanta)
- Finnish language conversation club. We offer a relaxed and friendly environment for students of Finnish of all levels, as well as native speakers interested in making international friends and help them practice.
Career planning
CV and Cover Letter: Thu 3.10. at 14–16 (City Centre Campus)
Have you wrecked your brain with what to write on your CV or application/motivation letter? Do you need help tailoring these for a vacancy? Do you want to know what impressions recruiters might get from your documents? In this session we look at CVs and letters in general and share good tips and hints about dos and don’ts.
CV support at Navigaattori: Wed 9.10. at 13.30–15.30 (Hervanta)
Do you need help tailoring your CV to an specific vacancy? Do you want to know what impressions recruiters might get from your CV? Then come join us in this CV support session on the Hervanta campus on 21.3., and get personalised feedback on your CV. Join us on the Hervanta campus and bring your CV printed or on your laptop/device. Each participant will get 15 minutes with our CV experts, who will look at your CV and give you personalised feedback.
There is no need to register, so you can just come any time between 13.30-15.30. Do keep in mind that because of time restrictions, there are only 16 spots available for individual feedback. Come join us!