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Dear future student!

We are happy that you have chosen Oulu University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, to be your place ofeducation in the Degree Programme in Information Technology (abbr. DIN, formerly DPI), for the next 4 years.

We at the School of Engineering will do our best to make your stay pleasant and rewarding both academically and

personally. We would like to help and guide you to start your stay here in Oulu by offering you a Pick Up Service,International Tutoring and Orientation Days, see more below and next page.

After having filled in and submitted the official registration/enrolment form to Oulu UAS Admission Services by postal mail,please send to us at the School of Engineering your arrival and other required information as soon as possible, atthe latest on 15 August, by using the registration form athttp://www.oamk.fi/engineering/din.The registration form ofthe School of Engineering will be available 9 June - 15 August, and it will help us to make arrangements in welcoming you.

In addition, please make swiftly independent efforts concering your travelling, housing/accommodation and, if needed,your residence permit application etc. as soon as possible (see attachments provided by Oulu UAS Admission Services)!

In case of questions and changes of your information before/after youve registered via the aforementioned registrationform, please contact us by e-mail [email protected] to the summer holiday, the e-mails or phone calls will not beanswered 30 June - 4 August. However, all arrived enquiries will be replied again starting 5 August.

With kind regards, and we are looking forward to meeting you in Oulu and at Oulu UAS, School of Engineering.

Mr Bastian Fhnrich Ms Virve Svenstrm
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Mr Bastian Fhnrich Ms Virve Svenstrm


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Travel InstructionsN.B.! Information is directive and subject to change and has been checked last time in May 2014!

By AirFinland and Oulu can be easily reached by air; several airlines fly regularly to the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, the main airport ofFinland. The Oulu Airport is the second busiest airport in Finland with numerous daily connections from/to Helsinki, Riga andTampere. Information about the Oulu Airport (www.finavia.fi/en/oulu)and other airports in Finland and travel connections to

and from the airports is available on the website of Finavia (www.finavia.fi).

It is advisable to ask for student or youth fares to Oulu from travel agencies specialised in student and youth travel. E.g. STATravel and Kilroy Travels have many representatives all around the world. You should also ask for a flight ticket all the wayto Oulu, not only to e.g. Helsinki. This way the connecting flight might be cheaper.

Finnair has up to 10 regular daily air connections from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, SAS/Blue1 has up to 9 daily services fromHelsinki-Vantaa to Oulu and Norwegian Airlines has up to 4 daily flights from Helsinki-Vantaa to Oulu.

Low-cost CarriersSome of the so-called low-fares airlines operate flights to Finland. Ryanair has regular services from Bremen, Frankfurt-Hahn, London-Stansted, Milan-Bergamo and Riga to Tampere Airport (ca 200 km north-west of Helsinki and ca 500 kmsouth of Oulu). Air Finland has direct flights to Helsinki from many holiday destinations especially in the southern Europe.Airberlin flies from Berlin and Dsseldorf to Helsinki and Easyjet has daily services between London-Gatwick and Helsinki.The nearest Easyjet destination is Tallinn in Estonia. Wizz Air flies several times a week from Gdansk in Poland to Turku inSouthwestern Finland.
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By TrainYou can also travel from Helsinki to Oulu by train. In this case you must first take the Finnair City Bus (6.30 EUR), or thepublic regional buses 415, 451 or 615 or 615V (5.00 EUR) will take you from the Helsinki Airport to the Helsinki CentralRailway Station in ca. 30 minutes (buses leave approximately every 15 - 20 minutes). Finnair City Bus arrives on the ElielSquare. The local bus 61 (approx. 3.00 EUR) will take you to the Tikkurila Railway Station in Vantaa (buses leave at peakhours every 10 minutes, at other times with 20 - 60 min intervals). The bus journey to the Tikkurila Railway Station takes ca20 min. All long haul trains towards Oulu will call both at Helsinki Central and Tikkurila Railway Stations. Further informationon bus connections to/from the Helsinki-Vantaa Airport is available on the website of Finavia at

www.finavia.fi/en/helsinki-airport/to-and-from/bus-service/.

If you will arrive by a Ryanair flight to Tampere or Wizz Air flight to Turku a train will be the cheapest option to travel to Oulu.In both Tampere Airport and Turku Airport you must first take a bus or a taxi to the railway station.

There are from ten to twelve trains a day from Helsinki to Oulu. The journey time from Helsinki to Oulu is ca 67 hours and910 hours on the overnight trains. The Oulu Railway Station is in the very centre of the city. For train timetables and fares,please see the VR website atwww.vr.fior call to VRs English phone service, tel. +358 9 2319 2902.

In the table below you can find prices of normal-priced train tickets (a seat reservation is included in all pre-purchasedtickets).

Journey Regional train Express train InterCity PendolinoHelsinki-Oulu Not availableApprox.: 70 EUR 75 EUR 80 EURYou should also check the opening hours of the railway station booking offices on the VR website. In case the ticket office ofthe station is closed before the departure of the train there is no surcharge for purchasing the ticket from the conductor on

the train The normal commission for ticket purchases on board the trains is approx 3 EUR and 6 EUR on Pendolino
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Health Insurance Required from Third-Country Nationals Entering Finland for the Purposes of Studies inan Educational Institution in Finland

The third-country nationals coming to Finland for studies are required to have an insurance that will cover the costs of health care. Third-country nationals are persons who are not citizens of the European Union or citizens of Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or Switzerland (Aliens

Act 301/2004 46, Student directive of the EU 2004/114/EC). For those whose studies will last at least two years an insurance coveringmedicine costs is enough. The insurance has to be valid upon arrival to Finland and should be issued by a reliable and solvent company orinstitution.

Health insurance as a requirement for issuing a temporary residence permit

A foreign national who has been accepted into an educational institution in Finland as a student may be issued with a temporary residencepermit for the purposes of studies leading to a degree. Issuing a temporary residence permit requires that the foreign national has validinsurance with a solvent and reliable company or institution covering medical treatment in Finland. A student must have insurancecover when applying for a residence permit, as without it a residence permit cannot be granted.

Where the duration of the studies is two years or more, a student will usually be given a home municipality in Finland and is therefore entitledto municipal health care services. The student must, however, have a private insurance to cover primarily the cost of medicines (in practice thecover extends to doctors fees and costs of treatment and examination), up to 30,000 euro.

For studies of less than two yearsin duration, a student must have private insurance which primarily covers the costs of medical treatment upto 100,000 euro.

Taking out insurance abroad

A foreign student applying for a residence permit for studies in Finland must have health insurance. The authorities cannot issue a permitunless the person filing an application produces evidence that he or she has taken out insurance.

Insurance companies in many countries offer a range of insurances, varying in price and content and covering costs of medical treatment inFinland. Prices for insurances that are valid for a year vary from a few hundred euros to over one thousand euros. The insurances available are

usually travel insurances


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Housing for Degree Students in Oulu

Accommodation cannot be arranged for the degree students by the Oulu University of Applied Sciences.Accommodation is available either in the student dormitories or on the private housing market. Admitted students shoulddirectly contact the student accommodation services. Inexpensive self-catering student accommodation in single or twin

rooms is usually offered in the student dormitories. Most of the rooms have a communal kitchenette, a toilet and a shower.Flats and family housing are also available in some dormitories.

The price of accommodation varies depending on the type of the accommodation. The monthly rent for a room in astudent hostel or dormitory is around 150260 euros, for a one-room flat 210500 euros and for a family flat 360740 euros.

Please, find sources for finding housing in Oulu in the following pages. We recommend that you start looking for

an apartment as soon as possible!

If you will be studying at the School of Business and Information Management, you may look for apartments withregard to their proximity to the campus (Teuvo Pakkalan katu 19): Raksila & Keskusta City Centre (1-2 km), Karjasilta (1km), Peltola (1-2 km), Kontinkangas (1.5 km), Inti (2 km), Hyhty (3 km).

If you will be studying at the School of Engineering, you may look for apartments with regard to their proximity to thecampus (Kotkantie 1):Kaukovainio (0.5 km), Hyhty (1.5 km), Karjasilta (1.5 km), Kontinkangas (2 km), Hiironen (2 km), Lintula (2 km), Peltola

(2 5 km) Mntyl (3 km) Raksila Keskusta City Centre (3 km) Inti (3 km)


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1.2 PRIVATE HOUSING AGENCIES

OVV Asuntopalvelutwww.ovv.com/oulu(in Finnish)Kansankatu 47, 90100 OULUMobile +358 (0)40 591 8677, +358 (0)40 197 [email protected]

Vuokratalo HeinkulmaUusikatu 76Mobile +358 (0) 40 5600 584

Takuuvlitys - OULUwww.asuntoja.net(in Finnish)Kirkkokatu 19, 90100 Oulu

Tel. +358 (0)8 562 5700 Fax +358 (0)8 562 [email protected]

Kiinteisttahkolawww.kiinteistotahkola.fi/fi/vuokraus(in Finnish)Kempeleentie 7, 90400 OULUTel. +358 (0)207 480200 Fax +358 (0)207 480201http://tahkola-temp.web1.foral.info/Sivut/Asunnot.aspx
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Sivakka-yhtym Oywww.oulunsivakka.fi/en/Myllytullinkatu 4, 90130 OuluTel. +358 (0)8 3148 190Fax. +358 (0)8 3148 [email protected]

Habitawww.habita.fi/en/contact-usTel. +358 (0)10 5855 010

Vuokramaailmawww.vuokramaailma.comRautatienkatu 30, 90100 OuluTel. +358 (0)50 377 6938

[email protected]

1.3 PORTALS FOR PRIVATE HOUSING

Vuokraovi.comhttp://www.vuokraovi.com/?locale=en

Oikotie.fi (in Finnish)f /
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2. TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION (if need be and permanent accommodation is not available)

2.1 COMPANIES RENTING FLATS/COTTAGES

Omena Hotels Ouluwww.omenahotels.com/our-hotels/finland/ouluUusikatu 26, 90100 Oulu

+358 20 7716 555N.B.! Provides also permanent accommodation, at least 1 month, room price starting 550 EUR/month (max 2persons/room), incl. water, electricity, internet connection and cleaning 2 times/month.When reserving, mentiond the codePohjois-Suomen opiskelija via [email protected] or by phone to+358 20 771 6555

Forenom Ouluwww.forenom.fi/en/

Rautatienkatu 9, 90100 OuluTel. +358 (0) 20 198 [email protected]

Oulu Apartmentswww.ouluapartments.com/etusivu-engTel. +358 (0) 44 351 [email protected]

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LOCATION OFOULU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

After arriving in Oulu you can go to the School of Engineering (Tekniikan yksikk on the map) by bus or by taxi.

From the Oulu city centre to the School of Engineering it takes ca 10

20 minutes by bus.The timetables and the routes are available atwww.koskilinjat.fi/

Oulu UASSchool of Engineering

Kotkantie
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