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The main principles have not changed in the policies valid from 1 October. Safety must still be promoted primarily by keeping safe distances, taking care of hand hygiene and participating in contact teaching only when you are healthy. Each individual’s actions and personal choices are crucial for controlling the epidemic situation. Please minimise the risk of spreading the virus. This way we will be able to ensure the continuity of the university’s operations on the campus as well as possible. The university recommends staff and students to download the voluntary Koronavilkku app.

Please find below a summary of the instructions. Read the full instructions here.

Safety on the campus

• Come to campus only when you are healthy.
• Remember to wash hands and keep safe distances!
• Use a mask if it is not possible to keep a safe distance when working for a longer time (over 15 minutes).
• When it is not possible to keep a safe distance in contact teaching, the teacher will provide masks at the beginning of the session. Otherwise, the use of personally acquired masks is recommended when operating on the campus.
• The university observes national and regional mask recommendations and will update its instructions on the use of masks flexibly.
• Everyone who receives a Koronavilkku alarm is recommended to self-quarantine for two weeks. In that time, it is not allowed to participate in contact teaching.
• Health authorities will contact all exposed persons. Up-to-date information on all known coronavirus infections and exposures on the campus are available in student news, the MyJYU news listing, the Intranet Uno and internal newsletters. The staff and students of the unit are informed by email. In case of larger exposures, the whole university community is also informed by email.

Teaching and student mobility

• JYU will open, in a controlled manner and following the travel and entry regulations of Finnish authorities, international student and intern mobility in the spring term 2021 for both leaving and arriving students. More specific policies and guidelines for student mobility will be confirmed on 9 October.
• It is not recommended for risk group members to participate in contact teaching (recommendation of the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) and the Ministry of Education and Culture on 4 August 2020). If teaching in a study unit can, considering the achievement of learning outcomes, be arranged only as contact teaching and it is not possible to complete the study unit through distance learning (e.g. laboratory courses), the student in the risk group should complete the study unit after the end of the exceptional circumstances. Possible delay in the progress of studies will be taken into account when making a decision on continuing the study right (subsections 4 and 5, added to Section 40 of the Universities Act with act 515/2020, which are temporarily valid from 1 July 2020 to 31 July 2021).

Events

• No events that are external to the university community are arranged in JYU facilities and premises.
• Small internal events of less than 50 people are implemented paying attention to these instructions.
• Meetings related to the necessary operations of the University can still be arranged with participants from outside the University in compliance with the principles of these instructions (contact information is collected from the participants, the maximum occupancy and general safety instructions are observed).
• The maximum number of 50 people is applied to events in outdoor areas, considering safe distances.

Hobbies

• The sport sessions of students and staff will not be opened in the autumn. Gyms are still available only for teaching purposes.
• Evening events of subject associations as well as choir and hobby group activities are not arranged in JYU facilities during the rest of period 1. During period 2, decisions will be made case-specifically based on the coronavirus situation.
• As for the evening events of subject associations, gyms, sport sessions and hobby clubs, the situation will be reviewed in week 43 and decisions will be made at the latest on 23 October based on the epidemic situation.

More information:

Jarkko Pirkkalainen
Chair of the coronavirus monitoring group
jarkko.pirkkalainen@jyu.fi
tel. 040 737 3364

Coronavirus instructions for students

corona.information@jyu.fi