Special Status Associations
To ensure close cooperation between AYY and special status associations in advocacy matters, certain subject organisations are offered special benefits.
You can find all sorts of activities within AYY! Continue an old hobby or start a completely new one, find like-minded friends, learn and gain experiences! There are more than 200 associations operating within AYY, so the range of activities is huge. There are hobbies from choir singing to climbing and from card games to sailing and the Finnish baseball.
If you cannot find an interesting association from among the existing associations, you can always establish your own association!
To ensure close cooperation between AYY and special status associations in advocacy matters, certain subject organisations are offered special benefits.
Subject associations are each field’s own associations that offer their members events, advocacy and networks for their working life and studies.
Sports associations offer their members a wide variety of sports from orienteering to diving and from horseback riding to skiing.
Hobby clubs bring together like-minded people to spend time together.
Among AYY's music associations, you are sure to find a choir, club or orchestra that suits your taste.
Let your creativity blossom in different types of cultural associations.
The social associations under AYY offer opportunities for the development of networks and working life skills, social influence, and political and spiritual activities.
Whether you are an exchange student, international degree student, or Finnish all the way, you can meet people from all over the world in the international associations.