Board of Student Union
Student Union's Board
KOEs board is the most visible part of KOE, and it is responsible for all the daily activities. The board's duty is to execute the guidelines written in the plan of action and make decisions related to practice based on decisions and guidelines given by the representative council. Board follows the events in the field of university of applied sciences locally and nationwide, and also informs raptors and takes a stand on topical issues.
In the board there is a Chairperson, two Campus chairpersons and members of the board. All members are students.
The chairpersons are responsible for the board’s and team's actions, maintain the relations between KOE and the student associations working in campuses, to the school's management, to the municipal politicians and providence’s influencers and to national stakeholders.
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The Student Union KOE’s board works in teams.
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The Advocacy team takes care of about the development of students' education, employment, livelihood, and well-being among other things.
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The Guidance and Communications team is responsible for helping LAB University of Applied Sciences with tutoring and to inform about the activities of KOE Student Union.
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The Student Life team is responsible for the events organized by KOE and improves the services of the Student Union.
Read more about the activities of our teams below! You can find the members of the board, their areas of responsibility and contact information on the contact information tab.
Advocacy Team
The Advocacy team’s responsibility is to monitor the interests of LAB University of Applied Sciences students in matters related to studies, quality of education and equality, for example.
We meet different actors both on and off campus and represent students in many different working groups. In addition, coordinating the class representative activities, FSHS things and influencing on a municipal level are within the range of Advocacy teams’ responsibility. We monitor student advocacy also at the national level through our umbrella organization SAMOK.
Big themes in Advocacy, were for example County elections, FSHS, Campus equality, working groups and parliamentary elections.
The roles in advocacy team are:
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Educational politics
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Social politics
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Influencing x2 (Lahti & Lappeenranta)
You can contact whole advocacy team via email edunvalvonta@koe.fi
Guidance & Communications Team
Guidance & Communications team has two different sectors: Tutoring and communications.
Tutor executives are responsible for helping LAB University of Applied Sciences with tutoring. Helping with tutoring means bringing information about KOE in tutor trainings and orientations, as well as familiarizing students with student life. KOE's board will have 2 tutor executives (one in each city). Their main partners are LAB's tutor coordinators.
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The main task of the Communications coordinators is to inform about the activities of KOE Student Union.​ KOE is also an interactive communicator with cities, other higher education institutions, universities, provinces and stakeholders. The communications coordinators design social media posts, produces various graphic materials and writes guides. As a rule, KOE communicates bilingually in Finnish and English.
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In external communication, we prioritise our own posts, but you can also approach us for collaboration. We particularly value our member benefits and events.
The roles in Guidance & Communications team are:
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Tutoring x2 (Lahti & Lappeenranta)
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Communications coordinators x2
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You can contact the team by email:
Tutoring: tutor@koe.fi
Communications: viestinta@koe.fi.
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Student Life Team
The Student Life teams mission is to produce different types of events for all students, develop services related to student well being and community spirit.
Our activities are best seen in large events, such as Aleksanterinkatu Appro and Freshmen Race. We also work closely in cooperation with LAB University of Applied Sciences's student associations. We also organize well-being events and biggest one is well-being weeks in cooperation with LTKY and Moveo. Our wellness and health executives also participate in the events and networks of our member organization The Finnish Student Sports Federation (OLL).
Our goal is to create a communal, open and comfortable study environment for all of our students! KOE is for everybody!
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The roles in Student Life team are:
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Events x2 (Lahti & Lappeenranta)
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Wellness and health x2
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You can contact whole student life team via email opiskelijaelama@koe.fi
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