Nations in Finnish universities
at Kasarmikatu 4, in Helsinki
In
student nations
(in Finnish, sg. osakunta, pl. osakunnat; in Swedish (student)nation) are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place. Though membership is not compulsory, the nations provide one of the main nodes of student social life, along with the faculty-based organisations (ainejärjestöt) at the universities.
The first Finnish student nations were originally established at
University of Uppsala
.
After Finland had gained its independence from Russia, the university was renamed as the
Swedish-speaking students, Teknologföreningen, at Aalto University
, and it is also legally a nation.
The 16 nations, those at Helsinki University and Teknologföreningen, have a special legal status as their existence and overall purpose is regulated by the Universities Act.[1] Therefore, organizations termed "nations" at other Finnish universities founded in the 20th century are not nations in the legal sense of the word, but instead associations, regulated by the Associations Act.[2] For example, at the University of Turku, there are four student nations established in the 1920s.[3]
Student nations at Helsinki University
Finnish-speaking
- Eteläsuomalainen osakunta (ESO)
- Savolainen osakunta (SavO)
- Karjalainen Osakunta (KO)
- Hämäläis-Osakunta (HO)
- Keskisuomalainen Osakunta (KSO)
- Kymenlaakson Osakunta (KyO)
- Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta (VSO)
- Satakuntalainen Osakunta (SatO)
- Wiipurilainen Osakunta (WiO)
- Etelä-Pohjalainen Osakunta (EPO)
- Pohjois-Pohjalainen Osakunta(PPO)
Swedish-speaking
- Nylands Nation (NN)
- Vasa nation (VN)
- Åbo Nation (ÅN)
- Östra Finlands Nation (ÖFN)
Student nations at Åbo Akademi University
- Nyländska Nationen (NN)
- Åbolands Nation (ÅSNA)
- Åländska Studentlaget (ÅSL)
- Österbottniska Nationen (ÖN)
- Östra Finlands Nation (Öffen)
Student nations at Aalto University
- Teknologföreningen (TF)
Student nations at the University of Turku
- Satakuntalais-Hämäläinen Osakunta (SHO)
- Savokarjalainen Osakunta (SKO)
- Varsinaissuomalainen Osakunta (TVO)
- Pohjalainen Osakunta (TPO)
See also
- University of Helsinki
- Nation (university)
- The Royal Academy of Turku
References
- ^ http://www.finlex.fi/en/laki/kaannokset/2009/en20090558.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "PRH -- Associations Act". Archived from the original on 2013-03-01. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
- ^ Rules of Satakuntalainen Osakunta at Turku University in Finnish