Tampereen TietoTeekkarikilta ry or TiTe is the Guild of Information Technology at Tampere University - an organisation which supports the interests of all IT students at the university and organises events and services for its members. Any member of the student union (TREY) can join the guild, regardless of their study programme.
TiTe was founded in 1991 by members of Tampereen TietoTeekkarit, a club for students of the then brand new Information Technology study programme. Our guild's colour, black, was inherited from that club and we display it proudly on our overalls. Nowadays, we are one of the largest guilds at the Hervanta campus with about 500 members.
TiTe has its own guild room in the basement of Tietotalo in Hervanta campus. The room number is TA015. At the guild room, we offer many services, among them a television, a PlayStation 5 with several games, computer for our members to use (see here for more information), board games and the guild's official mascot, the wooden teekkari cap wearing dog Ruffe. We also sell overall badges, school supplies, IT study books and printed course handouts. Find out more about our sales items on the sales page .
You can easily join the guild's activities by spending time at our guild room, where you can get to know our active members. Stopping by at our events also helps! To become an official member of the guild you need to pay the guild fee, 5,00 euros, at the sales desk at our guild room when a member of the board is present or submit your information in this form .
If you want to stay informed about our activities, you should follow the guild's official information channels: this website, TiTe's Telegram-channel, TiTe's Instagram page , our mascot Ruffe's tweets (unfortunately mostly only in Finnish due to character limit) and our mailing lists. All important information about guild matters ends up on our official e-mail lists, which are as follows:
Alumnit - A list intended for our alumni, who only want to receive information about alumni activities. You shall be a member of TiTTu (our alumni organization) before joining the list.
Fury - This list is intended for our fuksis. In addition to regular announcements, it also receives emails about fuksi events.
Jäsenet - The general members' list, which receives information about guild activities, as well as the weekly newsletter with news from elsewhere on the campus.
Joining the mailing lists has been disabled due to spam. If you want to join a list, please send a message to atk (at) tietoteekkarikilta.fi.
To participate in unofficial discussion you can join the channel #tite on IRCnet. Rules for the channel exist but are currently only in Finnish. In short: set your real name in your IRC client, do not post away messages to the channel and use /lastlog before pasting a more or less funny URL to check that it has not been posted recently.
As the guild of information technology students, TiTe also seeks to help its members in their studies. We sell school supplies, IT study books and other miscellaneous items at the guild room.
The guild also works closely with the Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering to provide its members with information about different study choices at the university. If you have suggestions to improve the guild's services in this field, please contact the board members responsible for studies either via this form or by using the contact details given in the board section further down on this page.
You can peruse the guild's exam archive in digital form at tite.cs.tut.fi/tenttiarkisto (the page itself is only in Finnish but exams can also be found in English).
You can submit more exams either to the physical red box at the guild room or digitally to kopo at tietoteekkarikilta.fi (better return box coming soon ™)
Do you need peer support when studying? You can come ask for advice, study together, or just enjoy the learning atmosphere. Our encouraging instructors will be present throughout the study group sessions, and you can ask them (or other study group attendees) for help with exercises or topics you're having trouble with. Please remember that our voluntary study group instructors do not replace course teaching assistants, so in more challenging cases, don't forget to use course resources.
When course deadlines are coming up, there will also be "project nights" where you can work on course projects together. More information about these later!
Where: TB223, Tietotalo
When: Tuesdays at 16-19
Our members are encouraged to contact the information technology study counsellor if they have any problems or questions relating to their studies at TAU. The study counsellor is also a student at TAU who works part-time to help other students with their studies.
Sami Harmaala
email: tite.opiskelu.tau@tuni.fi
room: TD204
You can find the study counsellor's office hours here.
The following committees are operating under the board this year:
IT committee
Educational and social affairs committee
Nibble committee
Investment committee
Events committee
Corporate affairs committee
GFX committee
TiTe organizes alumni activities in collaboration with their alumni associatio TiTTu ry. If you are a TiTe alumnus looking to meet up with other alumni or if you have ideas for the improvement of the alumni activities, you can join by visitig TiTTu's website .
As a TiTTu member you are allowed to join our Alumni mailing list, where we inform about alumni events organized by the guild, or by other alumni organizations (TTY-alumni, Tampere-Alumni). You can join the list here. We also have a Telegram channel, Facebook group and LinkedIn group for alumni.
TREY is the Student Union of Tampere University and it represents all students in the university. TREY also facilitates the work of student associations, provides services for its members, and much more. More information here . Current board members:
No TiTe representatives at the moment
TREY's Council of Representatives is the highest decision-making body in the union. They decide on the outlines of TREY's policies, such as strategy, budget and plan of action. More info here . Current TiTe representatives in the council:
Kyltyrböndet : Sami Harmaala
Oikeisto-Opiskelijat : Emma Sjöholm
Kahden Tähden Teekkarit : Mika Pajala, (Anniina Honkasaari)
The Teekkari Union of Tampere (Tampereen teekkarit ry) is an association formed by the guilds of Hervanta campus. It maintains and develops teekkari culture in Tampere. The teekkari union manages, for example, the teekkari sauna Mörrimöykky. More information can be found here . TiTe's general assembly elects representatives to the council which is the highest authority of the teekkari union. Listed below are TiTe's current representatives in the union and in the council.
Board:
Master of Public Relations: Juho Kangas
Master of Teekkaris: Wilhelm Tcheng
Employees:
Hiski Hämäläinen, Wappu secretary
Representatives
Ville Niemi, Juho Kangas, Wilhelm Tcheng
Substitutes
Kasperi Kouri, Matias Aitolahti, Joona Syrjämäki
Teekkari Section is responsible for activities and events, and maintaining and developing the teekkari culture in Tampere.
Mika Pajala, vice-chairman
Emilia Rantonen, event coordinator
Viivi Mustonen, anniversary gala assistant
Tuuli Silvennoinen, Teekkari culture coordinator
Tapio Yli-Soini, event coordinator
Reettamari Lohvansuu, communications and social media coordinator
Onni Merilä, song coordinator
TiTe has a representation in multiple university boards and councils and seeks to benefit its members studies, affect changes in our study programs and bring a student voice to relevant discussions.
Current hallopeds and their substitutes:
Name | Member of | Telegram | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Valhe Kouneli | ITC Studies steering group | @ValheK | ||
Sourav Chowdhury | CSEE Master's level steering group | @sourav4m | ||
Reettamari Lohvansuu | Deputy member in the appeals board and education council | @repasorsa | ||
Saskia “Tupsu” Simisker | TST-steering group & TEK Halloped | @tupsut | ||
Mika Pajala | Consistor | @kamerakerho | ||
Samuel Ahopelto | ITC faculty council | @sahaaja | ||
You can contact all members of the board by using the email list address below. If you have a matter related to a specific area of the guild's activities, you can contact the relevant board member(s) by using their personal contact details in the board section .
Not all CS students are members of our guild, so you should contact the university if you need to contact all students of our degree program.
Tampereen TietoTeekkarikilta
Email: hallitus@tietoteekkarikilta.fi
Website: https://tietoteekkarikilta.fi
Telephone: 045 120 7348 (mostly during sales service )
Tampereen TietoTeekkarikilta ry
PL 553
33101 Tampere
Finland
Tampereen TietoTeekkarikilta
TA015, Tietotalo, A Wing Cellar Section
Korkeakoulunkatu 1
33720 Tampere
Finland