This was presented to FUAS students who had a desire to do an exchange through Eramus or complete a work placement. The venue was Laurea in Tikkurila 25 April 2014.

1. Meeting Different Cultures
2014
Brian Joyce

2.  The Melissa Vanha-Majamaa Story
 How to better your exchange
 The Samuli Ylisalo Story
 The Hanne Tyyni Story
 Life after exchange and UAS
 How to enhance your exchange

3. Beach in Miramar, Vila Nova de Gaia Foz, Porto Winter 2013-14
Color Run Porto Summer 2013
Portugal

4.  language course
 faculty of accounting and administration
 distance between the center of the city and
the faculty
 Portuguese culture and language still
surprises me
 last semester there was more than 2000
Erasmus students here

5. 1. Use the contacts and support she had at her
university: collect emails and phone numbers.
 Listened to safety issues etc
 Listened to health issues
 Participated in discussion on mobility experiences in
country groups
Asked the question early enough: "What happens if..."?
SEE WHAT SAMULI DID.....

6. Firenze Genova
Lago di Como

8.  The basics
 Before going: health insurance, Italian,
Sairasvakutuskortti, henkilökortti, snacks, credit
card check
 When there: records experiences = pictures, video
clips; some students blog but not me

9. “Special thanks for the student Dea Mulolli
and the teacher Jane Everett for contributing” April 2014

10. Hanne Tyyni (HAMK UAS)
IB student now graduated
Went to Malaysia early 2010

11. “Go, especially
if the local
students ask
you.”

12. “But exchange
is for gaining
experiences
besides
studying”
“ Make sure you study too!”

13. “The course
transcript and
getting the grades
accepted in your
own university.”
“It may take a while
for the exchange
university to provide
you with your
grades.”
Transcript and grades

14. “Understanding a different lifestyle
-Malaysian/Islamic”
“I pick some of the best things and try to
apply them in my own life”
“More independent and more confident”
“ My CV includes the exchange
• cultural training
• adaptability
• social networking
• more open in my thinking”
It helps in my professional career

15. April 2014
Four years after
exchange
“I reckon that the biggest changes the
exchange had on me, are still there,
they have become a part of me so I
don't acknowledge them as often as
maybe other people who had known
me before my exchange.” April 2014

16. Research your exchange destination
Services Social Studies
Transport Entertaining University map
Accommodation Clubs/societies Web site
Shops/shopping Sports/leisure Schedules
Bureaucracy Clothing Punctuality
Formality/informality Assignments
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

18. Archiving your experiences for the future.
 For your university
 For future students
 For your portfolio
 For your future employers
 IDEA
 Make a presentation of your uni and Finland
before you go

19. And my personal thanks to
 Melissa
 Samuli
 Hanne
Enjoy lunch and don’t forget your
student card.