The name of my university is
Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (KAMK), it’s located in the south of
Kajaani (Ketunpolku 3, 87100 Kajaani).
KAMK was founded in 1992 and amongst
the first UAS to be granted permanent status in 1996. It was the best UAS in
Finland in 2011.
The President and & CEO of KAMK is Dr.Turo Kilpeläinen.
Kajaani University of Applied
Sciences proposes several fields of education:
➞ Business
(my field)
➞ Engineering
➞ Tourism and Sports
➞ Nursing
➞ Information
Systems
(Plan of the campus realized
by Kirsi Sievers, International Affairs Planning Coordinator)
The university possesses a
fitness gym with machines (the subscription is of 20euros for the semester) and
proposes various fitness lessons (the price is of 30euros). The fitness gym is
situated in the same building as Fox, it's about the university restaurant or
we can have lunch for 2,60euros. My accommodation is situated on the university
campus (it's lower right on the image). The building in which I have the
majority of my courses is TA2.
There are 210 staff
members and we are approximately 2000 students. The university welcome
approximately between 70 and 90 exchange students yearly from different
countries: Austria, Germany, France, Portugal, Czech Republic, Canada, Japan…
If you want more information
about my university, here is the web site: https://www.kamk.fi/en
The first day when I arrived
on the campus at Kajaani, I was with Laure-Anne and Solenn who are student at
ESDES like me. We were welcomed by 2 students of the "tutoring" who
brought to us and shows our apartment. I share my flatshare with Laure-Anne,
Solenn and Lucie, a Czech student.
I began my university semester
the 12th of January 2017 with 2 days of orientation, they have explain
ourselves the rules of the school but also of the country, the different
activities we can do in Kajaani and in the surroundings. They also organized us
games so that we learnt to know each other more easily and quickly between
international students.
The "tutoring" is a
team compound of voluntary students of the university, they welcome the new
students on the campus and organize numerous events for the students every
month: parties in one of the 2 clubs of the city (club 96), going out bowling,
excursion snowshoe and ice fishing…
At the beginning of the year,
we had the choice between 2 types of course at the university. The on-line
courses, they are courses realized in total autonomy on the site Moodle of the
school, it’s a web site or we can find all the information on our courses, we
can communicate with the professors and the other students. The traditional
courses which I could call "physical courses", they are courses where
we have a professor in front of us. We are rarely no more than twenty students
by course, we are mixed with international and Finnish students and the class
are entirely in English.
We have “lectures” in every
course, the professor is going to make his course and we listen to him, a
little as the courts in France, but here the pupils take no or minimal notes of
what is said in class. The professor will try to interact on numerous occasions
with the pupils to know if they understood well, to have their opinions,… in
every class the pupils are very active current. We also have works of groups to
be realized in various class, or we apply what we saw current. Here, the
pupils, the professors and the Finn generally are not stressed, they have a
philosophy of very cool life. For example, the students can go out of court as
they want to go to have a coffee, to eat, to go to the toilet … without asking
for any authorization, it’s completely normal in Finland. Another difference
between France and Finland is that we call our professors by their first name
(what was a little bit strange at the beginning) and not by their surname as
it’s the case in France.
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