Dear Social and Health Care Student! Are you stuck with your studies? Are your studies not progressing, and do you feel you need special guidance to move forward?
Who is LiftUp guidance intended for?
- You want to study purposefully and need support with progressing in your studies and graduating.
- Your studies are delayed compared to your groups schedule.
- For students who need support when guidance from their teacher tutor is insufficient.
- You have planned your studies with your teacher tutor, but despite that your studies are not progressing.
What does LiftUp guidance include?
- You will create a time-limited plan for progressing in your studies together with a counselor.
- Bring with you your ideas for completing missing studies and/or the PSP made with your teacher tutor or the Head of Student Affairs.
- You will regularly monitor with your counselor the plan and the achievement of its goals.
- You will receive support to implement your study plan.
- You will receive guidance to develop your study skills.
How can you access LiftUp guidance?
- Through the guidance of your teacher tutor or the Head of Student Affairs.
- By contacting the LiftUp guidance contact person.
- By coming to LiftUp park sessions.
When does guidance end in LiftUp?
- Guidance is time-limited and agreed individually with the student.
- The student has reached the set goals and found their own agency in their studies.
Guidance continues with your teacher tutor after LiftUp guidance.
LiftUp park – come study together
Who is it for?
- For those who want to come study together and perhaps inquire about LiftUp guidance in an informal, low-threshold way.
- For those already in LiftUp guidance
What to expect?
- Working together and peer support
- Discussion about study skills
- Concrete help with your own challenges, e.g. “Where do I start this assignment?”
- No teaching or remedial tutoring
- LiftUp counselor on site to support you
- The meetings also serve as a walk-in drop-in for those interested in joining LiftUp guidance
When?
- At Otaniemi campus: 1 Dec, 9:00–12:00, Lab.life/122.2 and Zoom
- At Tikkurila campus: Tuesdays 9:00–11:00 (1 Sep 2026–8 Dec 2026), sofa area in the 3rd-floor lobby
- Online (Zoom): 19 Nov and 17 Dec
LiftUp guidance contacts
- Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Counselling: Elina Jääskeläinen
- Nursing: Kaija Marttila
- Nursing: Aila Peippo
- Social Services and Criminal Sanctions: Sonja Kukkonen
- Public Health Nursing (Nursing): Marja Vellonen