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.

The LAB has a Welcome Team, consisting of staff from different services and educational areas, the FYE team and the student union KOE. The team assists with the arrival, reception, orientation, tutoring and start of studies of new students, and meets to develop the smooth integration of students into the LAB community.

Before arrival

Admission services - admission@lab.fi
Scholarship - lab.scholarship@lab.fi
Exchange Students' Coordinator - incoming@lab.fi
eLAB - Starting studies pages
Welcome to study letter
LAB@key Degree / Master - digital introduction to your studies
Tuudo
LAB Newcomers Discord-group (see Starting Studies page for joining links)
Fresher's quide
Student customer service: studentservices@lab.fi
Student IT-helpdesk: student.ithelpdesk@lut.fi
LAB.fi webpages

Arrival

Joint orientation programme
Tutor teacher
Other teachers
Developing professional competence -course
Student Union KOE & peer tutors
- 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