Membership

Membership includes for example:

Student ID: Slice

Activating your digital student ID - Slice:

  1. Buy your Student Union´s membership. Your membership information will transfer between service fastest during the same day and slowest in two working days.

  2. Go to slice.fi/upload

  3. Select Haaga-Helia

  4. Fill the form to receive the activation code (your information needs to match the information you’ve given in the form to join Helga, which you can check from Helga’s web store in the “Memberships” -section of your profile)

  5. Download the Slice app from Google Play or App Store

  6. Open the app and log in

  7. Enter the username and password you received via email (activation code)

  8. Accept the terms, the app can’t be used before that You can also check your phone´s settings to give the app permissions.

Student ID: Pivo

Pivo is a versatile mobile payment app with which you can easily pay your friend, online and in store, without account numbers, bank user identifiers, card numbers or any other hassle. Pivo requires Finnish online bank service credentials.

Activating your digital student ID - Pivo:

1. Buy membership and wait 2-3 working days
2. Download Pivo on your phone and deploy it by login in with your online bank service credentials.
3. Open Pivo, go choose the Student-ID and select Helga.
4. Start using it by following the instructions on the app.

Kela meal subsidy card – Pivo

Helga offers all Haaga-Helia students the opportunity to start using a digital Kela meal subsidy card in Pivo.

The card entitles you to meal support in student restaurants. The card does not offer other benefits of the student union and does not serve as a student ID for HSL, Matkahuolto or VR.

Zone-Sports pass (value 69€)

With Sports pass you get to move around the capital city area! The sports pass has been made to support students and staff of Universities of Applied Sciences to move and be more active in day to day basics. With sports pass you have access to nine (9) different gyms, around 50 hours of instucted classes per week, discount from sports courses, free ball game and badminton reservations and discount from Rush trampoline park.

You can activate your sports pass from the closest member service point! Before doing this please visit www.zonesports.fi and click on the yellow “Log In” button on the right top corner of the page and create yourself a profile!

NB! If you have had a zone sports pass or a zone gym pass before, please don’t make a new profile! New sports pass can be activated for your previous profile instead!

Online training

Our online training platform offer many different online trainings!

Currently all videos are in Finnish, but we will add videos in other languages in the future.

Do the following in order to gain access to online training platform:
1. Make sure you have a valid student union membership
2. Create a Vimeo profile at http://vimeo.com from the Join Free button.
3. Go to the Settings of your profile from the top right corner from the expanding menu.
4. On top of the setting menu on the left you will find your profile details. Copy your User ID number.
5. Go to http://bit.ly/2Mu4yvH and fill the form.

We will add your account to the platform, and in the future you can watch the videos i.e. using a mobile app.


Yogobe, yoga services online
(value 199€)

Together with many of the leading professionals within yoga, health and wellness Yogobe offers on-demand video streaming online. Practice on your own terms based on your individual daily needs. Yogobe lowers the threshold in managing to create a healthy and sustainable routine in your life!

You can activate Yogobe online yoga services by sending a message to your student unions memberservices via customer service chat or email!

Member price from events and products

As a member of Helga you will get all events and products for half the price both from the web store and customer service points. This applies not only to the events and products of Helga, but those of all six student unions in the metropolitan area as well.

Helga has products like student coveralls, coverall patches, shot- and champagne glasses with ribbons and Helga canvas bags! You can learn more about our products from our web store.

You can also see all events through the web store!

Member democracy

In Student Union everything is done from students to students. The ultimate authority in the Student Union uses The Representative Council whis is elected yearly by a election. The council consists of 20 members and 20 deputies.

Any member of Helga has the right to attend and right to speak in the meetings of the board of representatives.

Member initiative

Do you have ideas how Helga could improve it’s activity? Is there something that your Student Union could organize, offer or carry out? As a Helga member you can make a straight member initiative to Helga!

This is how you can proceed:

1) Write your idea and send it by e-mail to Helga Board’s Chairperson puheenjohtaja@helga.fi

a) The Board will make a statement concerning your initiative at its’ Board Meeting – you have the right to speak and to be present during the discussion

b) The Board will pass the statement to Helga’s Representative Council which will make the decision concerning the initiative

2) Come to the Representative Councils’ Meeting – as a Helga member you have the right to speak and to be present

Note! With more ordinary ideas and propositions, you can always be in contact with Helga Board members! If the idea is good and executable (budget/action plan) the Board is able to function without too many formalities.

Helga Kitchen & Lounge

Helga Kitchen – cook at the campus

Can’t find anything you like at cafeteria? No worries! If you like to cook or warm up your snacks you are free to use Helga Kitchen. Kitchen is in all associations’ and Helga’s use so please clean up after yourself!

At Helga Kitchen you can find stove and oven, dishwasher, microwave oven, coffee maker and water boiler, tableware etc.

Helga Kitchen is located at Haaga-Helia Pasila campus next to Helga’s and associations’ offices (K1 floor, 1K004).


Helga Lounge – your livingroom

Helga Lounge is students’ livingroom – a place where you can take it easy. Helga Lounge is located at Haaga-Helia Pasila campus right next to Helga office (K1 floor).

At Helga Lounge you can for example play board and social games – you can also lend them from Helga. You can also connect e.g. Playstation, dvd-player etc. to the tv.

You will find the following games at the Lounge: Menolippu, Trivial Pursuit master, Monopoly, 7 wonders, Bezzerwizzer, Alias , Trivial Pursuit, Compatibility, Miun Mikkeli, Pictionary, new Alias, Catch Phrase, Scrabble, Ubongo, Twister, Balderdash, Kymppitonni, Trivial Pursuit family, Tumble, Domino, Magic words, Pane miljoona menemään, Operation, Genial, Huhupuheita, Penguins, Tatun ja Patun Suomi and Libretto.

Helga Lounge is for everybody in Haaga-Helia, so behave accordingly!


Reserving Helga Kitchen and Lounge

You can reserve the Helga Kitchen or Lounge, or both, for your use. The premises can be reserved from Monday to Friday from 17.30 to 23.00.

Reservation for the Kitchen is behind the link after the instructions.

When you reserve the Helga Kitchen, please remember to write down what your event name / reservation’s subject is (meaning what are you using the space for) and how many people are estimated to be at the Kitchen to the reservation description. All the reservations need to be confirmed by Helga’s boards so send a message to chairperson@helga.fi after your booking. If you need to also use the Helga Lounge, please mention that in the email.

As your booking is confirmed you are responsible for the premises and liable to compensate for any damages caused. Your responsibility expires after someone from Helga’s office has inspected the premises after the event. As the responsible person you must see to it that you are the first to enter and last to leave the premises. Furthermore, you are responsible for the supervision of the event and cleaning up afterwards (dishes, trash, chairs and sofas to their original places).

Remember that Helga Kitchen and Lounge are on school premises and everyone who attends the event needs to act accordingly. This means that no alcohol is consumed and you won’t make too much noise (there are people trying to study in the classroom nearby).

Reservation calendar here.


Lounges on other campuses

These days every campus has a Lounge coordinated by the local association, which furniture Student Union has supported.

Resignation

There is no right of cancellation in student union membership.

It is possible to resign from the membership of the Student Union at any time by notifying the Student Union in writing. Membership also ends at the end of paid membership periods. Upon leaving the student union, the student also loses their membership and the rights attached to the membership, such as their right to vote in the student union's representative council elections. The notice of resignation must be sent by e-mail to jasenpalvelu@helga.fi

Membership fee refund

The membership fee will not be refunded if the conditions of membership are still met. Unused membership fees can only be refunded if the student no longer studies at Haaga-Helia, ie he or she has either left the university or graduated. The student union charges a processing fee of five (5) euros for all membership fee refunds.

Any application for a refund of membership fees must be submitted to the student union in writing to jasenpalvelu@helga.fi. The membership fee refund is calculated according to the membership and other fees for each year. If the student so wishes and upon separate request, a calculation of the formation of the membership fee refund will be provided to the student. Payments of less than ten (10) Euros will not be refunded.

If a student has inadvertently acquired a double membership of the student union, the additional membership fee will be refunded to them in full without a processing fee. However, the student union is not responsible for refunding any separate service fees charged by the e-commerce service provider. Double membership refers to two overlapping student union memberships, but not a situation where a student renews their membership shortly before the end of the previous membership.

Membership fees are non-refundable afterwards.

Transfer of membership

It is possible to transfer the membership periods of the student union if the member has registered as an absent student for the semester or academic year. The transfer request for the membership period must be addressed to the student union in writing to jasenpalvelu@helga.fi.

In the absence of the autumn semester or academic year, the transfer request for membership must be submitted to the student union by 31.5. For the spring semester, by 30.11.

Requests for transfer of membership periods based on reasons other than absence from studies - such as exchange studies - are handled by the student union board on a case-by-case basis.