Faculty Councils are a central location for the promotion of student interest and the highest executive organ of the faculties.
The remit of the Faculty Councils includes developing education and research in the faculty, drafting proposals for plans of action and financial plans and annual budgets as well as deciding on the guidelines for the distribution of the resources allocated to the faculty; adopting the curricula; as well as drafting the proposal for the number of new students to be admitted annually into the faculty and deciding on the admission criteria. A third of the members consist of students.
The application period for the student representatives begins on Monday, 1st of Sep 2025. You can stand as a candidate for the Faculty Council by filling in an electronic form found on the TYY website (www.tyy.fi) by Sunday, 21st of Sep 2025 at 23.59. The Student Union’s Election Committee will prepare a proposal to the TYY’s Executive Board on who is to be elected. In addition, a statement on the applicants from the subject-specific or faculty student organizations representing the faculties and departments will be requested. TYY’s Executive Board will make the decisions on student representatives in October and November after the proposal preparation and circulation of statements.
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In the election of student representatives to the Faculty Councils, attention is paid to factors such as previous experience on organizations, university administration and advocacy work, motivation and commitment to the task, statements from the faculty or subject-specific student organizations of filling the position, on balanced representation of departments or subjects of the faculty, and balanced gender distribution for student representatives in the council.
According to TYY’s regulation on the election of student representatives, eligibility is limited to individuals with the right to complete a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, licentiate degree, or doctoral degree, or a specialist degree in medicine or in dentistry at the University of Turku. In addition, a prerequisite for eligibility is that the student has registered as attending. However, persons who are full-time employees of the university as defined by the University Regulations on Elections are not eligible.
According to the aforementioned TYY regulation, the number of student representative posts in the university’s administration is limited to three posts per person. This entry is intended to ensure a balanced distribution of the posts.
TYY emphasizes transparency and equality in its activities. We hope to receive applications from many people with different backgrounds.
For more information, please contact:
Specialist in Academic Affairs, Tero Ahlgren, tyy-kopoasiantuntija@utu.fi, tel. +358 44 796 1064.
The number of student representatives to be elected to the Faculty Councils (members + personal deputy members):
Faculty of Humanities (6+6)
Faculty of Education (5+5)
Faculty of Medicine (5+5)
Faculty of Science (6+6)
Faculty of Law (4+4)
Faculty of Technology (4+4)
Turku School of Economics (4+4)
Faculty of Social Sciences (4+4)