LAB First-Year Experience

First-year Experience (FYE) is to help newcomers’ arrival, adaptation and integration to LAB, new city of living and Finland. In practice it means arranging services to newcomers to ease their first steps in their new environment.

Student integration to university and student life has been shown to affect learning, motivation, persistence, and finally graduation.

Integration should be done from the beginning of studies in a new university, new study program or new level of study. First experiences are critical in shaping the student’s opinion of the new environment and future academic development.

By providing students' support services, we are trying to help to improve students’ integration and sense of belonging.

Before arrival

Admission services - admission@lab.fi
Scholarship - lab.scholarship@lab.fi
Exchange Students' Coordinator - incoming@lab.fi
Student customer service: studentservices@lab.fi
Student IT-helpdesk: student.ithelpdesk@lut.fi
eLAB - Starting studies pages
Important instructions for new students - letter
Welcome to study letter
LAB@key Degree / Master - digital introduction to your studies
Pre-orientationTuudoLAB Newcomers Discord-group
Fresher's quide
LAB.fi webpages

Arrival

Joint orientation programme
Tutor teacher & other teachers
Developing professional competence -course
Peer tutors
Student Union KOE
- free time social programme organized by Student Union KOE and Student Associations
Student customer service: studentservices@lab.fi
Student IT-helpdesk: student.ithelpdesk@lut.fi
LAB Welcome Team

Adaptation and integration