Year tags are now available
All students who have paid their AYY membership fee for the academic year 2019–2020 can pick up a year tag from August 1st, 2019 on. The year tags can be picked in following locations:
Harald Herlin Learning Centre, temporary service point (Otaniementie 9)
Open: August 19th – September 6th 2019, Mon – Fri 12:00 noon – 18:00
Otaniemi services office (Otakaari 11)
Opening hours: Mon – Fri 12:00 noon – 16:00
Read the payment instructions for AYY membership fee here. Please note that all year tags will only be applied directly on student cards to avoid any misuse.
Digital student card
Frank has renewed the student card pricing and the digital student card is now free. If you don’t have the app yet, join the tens of thousands of other students and download the Frank App here: www.frank.fi/lataa!
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