HELP
HELP is an independent big-tent RepCo group and coalition with a background in the professional disciplines. In HYY, we advocate for spending adjustments instead of hikes in membership dues, as well as for campus, language, economic and other equality among students. Instead of engaging in general politics, HYY should do effective advocacy centered on students’ wellbeing. A successful HYY focuses on its core functions.
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HYAL
Genuinely on students’ side! HYAL is an independent, cross-disciplinary group. We have candidates from all campuses. Values that HYAL considers important include communality, student wellbeing and equality. We help ensure that students’ voice can be heard at the University and in society. Supporting organisations and communities operating under HYY is very close to our heart!
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Keskeiset
Keskeiset is a centrist Representative Council group operating in HYY. Our candidates share the ideology and values of the Centre Party, although it is possible to run as an independent candidate on our list, too. In the Representative Council elections, we especially emphasise the importance of responsible financial management to ensure that future generations will still have a student union.
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Murros – Conservative Students
The goal of the ‘Murros – Conservative Students’ electoral coalition is to offer students a consistently conservative, independent option in the Representative Council elections. We value traditions, classical education and Christian ethics. We want to promote students’ freedom of speech and association by, for instance, abolishing mandatory membership in student unions.
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National Coalition Party
Our goal is a student union that genuinely serves all its members and focuses on its core duties. We want to increase the flexibility of studies, promote student wellbeing, support organisational activities and foster the conditions for meaningful student life. HYY’s financial situation is worrying, and our financial management needs a course correction. We oppose raising the membership fee and are prepared to find the required savings from somewhere else than students’ wallets.
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Osakuntalaiset
The Representative Council group of student nations (Osakuntalaiset) and its background organisation Osakuntalainen Unioni represent the Finnish-language student nations at the University of Helsinki. Themes our group considers important in the Representative Council include the status of individual students, looking after the operating conditions of organisations through continuity in facilities, for instance, the financial sustainability of HYY’s operations and maintaining a good atmosphere for debate.
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OSY
The Social Democratic Students’ Association, or OSY, has been taking care of social democratic student life at the University of Helsinki and in the Capital Region since 1905! During the next Representative Council term, we want to continue our work for a more communal student union where decisions are well thought-out during difficult times and where responsible employer policy prevails even when times are tough.
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Swedish-speaking Student’s Associations (SNÄf)
Swedish-speaking Student Associations (SNÄf) is an umbrella organisation for 23 student nations and organisations operating at the University of Helsinki. The core of SNÄF’s advocacy work consists of safeguarding the operating conditions of student nations and organisations operating under HYY while also protecting the Swedish-language element within the Student Union, the University and student advocacy work conducted at the national level.
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The Independent Left
The Independent Left is an independent, intersectionally feminist student organisation that bases its activities on ecological values and solidarity. In the Representative Council elections, we want to promote a student union that dares to defend students against austerity measures, looks after our broad organisational field and helps lay the foundation for student life that does not burn people out.
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UH Greens
UH Greens is an independent green organisation established in 1983 in response to the environmental crisis. It is important to us that HYY works boldly and actively against the climate catastrophe, austerity policies and reactionary forces. Social justice and equality form a key part of our decision-making processes.
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