University of Helsinki Student Ambassadors

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Are you interested in sharing your student experiences with current and future students? Apply to become a student ambassador of the University of Helsinki and join the community of student influencers.

We will recruit new student ambassadors between 5 and 18 February. See the dates for trainings in spring below in the Training section.

We offer you diverse tasks in content production as well as peer and influencer marketing:

  • writing blogs and social media entries (e.g. Instagram takeovers)
  • chatting with prospective students
  • working at events
  • modelling at photo shoots and taking part in video shoots

Student ambassadors studying in our international degree programmes play an important part in working at the Check-In Events for new international students, creating content on social media and chatting with prospective students online. When working as an ambassador, you gain valuable work experience, working life skills, networking opportunities and training. In addition, you can easily earn alongside studying, and you will also receive a University of Helsinki t-shirt, a certificate of employment and a LinkedIn recommendation.

Ambassadors studying in Bachelor’s Programmes (Finnish, Swedish and Bachelor's programme in Science in English) also have a chance to work at Finnish student fairs and give presentations at Finnish upper secondary schools.

Please contact studentambassadors(at)helsinki.fi for more information.

Training

The upcoming trainings and other events will be announced on this page when actual.

Note! There has been changes to the training dates.

Trainings for new student ambassadors in the spring term 2024:

  • Training on the network’s activities and practices: Mon 4.3. at 16.15-17.45 (Zoom)
  • Social Media: Mon 11.3 at 16.15-17.30 (Zoom)

Joint meetings and trainings with all ambassadors (English, Finnish, Swedish) are held mainly in English. Student ambassadors have a trilingual common Teams workspace. The Teams workspace contains instructions and guidelines for all student ambassador tasks.

Fees

  • Chatting with prospective students online on University of Helsinki Chat with our students service: 0 minutes -> €15​, 1-60 minutes -> €15 +15​, 60+ minutes -> €15+15+20​, 150+ minutes -> €15+15+20+20 (for a period of six months).
  • Writing a blog (400–1,200 words): €20 per blog entry 
  • Instagram takeover (feed picture + roughly 10–30 entries for a story in a day): €50
  • Individual presentation as a webinar (including preparation and testing, if any), in a upper secondary school or at University premises (independent of the duration and location, including preparation): €50. 
  • Individual presentation at an upper secondary school requiring travel costs in Southern Finland (Uusimaa, Varsinais-Suomi, Kanta-Häme, Päijät-Häme ja Kymenlaakso): €80. 
  • If you give several presentations at the same location on the same day, the fee for each presentation following the first one is €30.
  • Working at events (trade fairs, etc. commissioned by the Admission Services or other UH admins), training new representatives and, for example, giving a walking tour: €14/h
  • NB! Student Ambassadors have a choice to also arrange unprompted events such as museum visits, mingles etc. but these are considered volunteer work.
  • Preparing training sessions for new representatives, or walking tours: €20 per training session/walking tour
  • Taking part in photo shoots can be rewarded, on a case-by-case basis, with, for example, admission tickets, but as a rule no fees are paid for photo shoots.
  • For all student ambassadors: UH t-shirt
  • Additionally, for student ambassadors taking part in photo shoots: UH hoodie (max. 1 hoodie per student ambassador)

Travel expenses

  • Travel expenses according to ticket prices (based on the most inexpensive mode of transport) -> ticket/receipt must be attached to the travel reimbursement application.
  • Kilometre allowance €0.53/km -> statement of kilometres driven is sufficient

More information: studentambassadors@helsinki.fi