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Mid September announcement!
The Finnish universities are finally open for business! We've been toiling away for a couple of weeks now. Are you settling in and finding your way around? I hope you've managed to find your way to the soda dispenser, and taken a note of your favourite tea and the cafeteria coffee is to your liking as well!So let's see what is going on!
To begin with some future events, don't miss the Erasmus+ Days bash from October 9-14! Get your groove on and follow the fun at #erasmusdays. Erasmus+ Days celebrate the EU's flagship program for education, training, youth, and sport with global events. Read more at the forum › Europe Days 2023.
European Heritage days have been going on since September 9, until today, this has been the official week. However, In case you missed the major celebrations, you can get familiar with The Heritage days by checking out the videos on their Youtube channel and finding nearby events, as some of them are still going on, throughout the coming months. Here's the forum post about it, › European Heritage Days.
In other Finnish news, › EUR 10.4 million was awarded to Finnish organisations for Erasmus+ cooperation.
In the future, all the EU/Erasmus+ related news will be published under the same thread, in an effort to keep the forum a bit more organised. Heres a link to › EU / Erasmus News in our forum.
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New forum news threads!
There is also a new thread for › News in Finland - Uutisia Suomesta! We will collect funny, interesting, quirky news about Finland, or something we may think you might be interested in. So we start with the newly established › Roaring competition. Yes, you read it right! RAWR!
The other article in this thread is about Iranian Sana who spent her mobility exchange in Helsinki. Read about her experiences in the ESN Blog, › through this link.
And to the end, I just want to remind you to read › The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Sauna, so you can immerse yourself in the Finnish sauna culture right now! While the sauna is heating up, you can ponder the wonders of Finnish words and their double meanings with this forum post called › Kuusi palaa. There is a new forum thread for › Finnish memes now too!
While you are cooling off from your splendid sauna session, you can listen to the latest › Mobility and Intercultural Podcast!
Enjoy!
Minna, OLS Community Manager – Finnish