Alumni Day

We welcome all our alumni, staff members and students to the most important alumni event of the year on the 26th of April at the campus.

Alumni Day 2024 brings together graduates from different faculties of our university to relive their study moments and spend time with other alumni and the university community. The joint programme is held at Linnanmaa campus at 3 PM. Faculties are organizing their own events either before or after the join event. Please see more information below.

There has been a pre-registration to the event, which has ended.

Programme

At 15.00. Linnanmaa campus, around central lobby, and restaurant Napa (entrance 2T, Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu)
Music, Trio Elisé

• Welcoming words, Rector Jouko Niinimäki
• Alum interview, Alum of the Year 2023 Mika Rämet
• Science Talks
  • Senior Research Fellow Marika Paalanne
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Annaliza Cainglet
  • Professor Pentti Haddington
• Quiz
• Keynote Speech Jari Saario
• Music, Cassiopeia choir

The faculties' own programmes are either before or after the joint event. See below for more information.
• Faculty of Humanities, at 13.00–14.30, lecture hall AT115A & AT115B, Linnanmaa (near 2T entrance)
• Faculty of Education and Psychology, at 13.00–14.30, OLOhuone Café, Linnanmaa
• Oulu Business School, at 13.00–14.30, Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa
• Faculty of Technology, at 17.00–18.30, lecture hall L2, Linnanmaa
• Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at 17.00–18.30, Tellus Stage, Linnanmaa
• Faculty of Science, at 17.00–18.30, Tellus Backstage, Linnanmaa
• Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, at 12.30–14.15, Tellus Stage Kontinkangas, Aapistie 7A, (Bus transportation to Linnanmaa campus at 14.20 from Aapistie 5A and back again at 17.00)
• Faculty of Medicine, at 13.00–14.15, main lobby of the Faculty, Aapistie 5A, (Bus transportation to Linnanmaa campus at 14.20 from Aapistie 5A and back again at 17.00)

Please note that most of the programme is held in Finnish.

The event will be hosted by Simo Kekäläinen.

There is no dresscode so you may arrive straight from work to the event.

UniOulu Shop is open to guests on Alumni Day. In the shop you can buy yourself a college shirt, a T-shirt or embroidered cloth badge. Welcome! You can also shop online: store.oulu.fi

Arrival to campus

Linnanmaa campus: around the central lobby restaurant Napa, Cafe Hub and Juvenes.
Nearest entrance is 2T, Erkki Koiso-Kanttila katu 1, Linnanmaa campus.

Some parking lots on the Linnanmaa campus have a limited parking time and some are chargeable, but from noon onwards you can park in any marked parking lot free of charge. The closest parking options 2T door are in the P1 and P2 parking lots. Please note that if you arrive before noon, parking surveillance is still in effect in the parking lots.

Please note that there is over 350 people arriving to the event. Please notice parking spaces may fill out quickly.

If you arrive in Linnanmaa by public transport, the bus stop near Linnanmaa campus' main entrance 2T is called Yliopisto. See the timetables on the website of city of Oulu's public transport.

If you have graduated from the Faculty of Medicine or from the Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine and you park your car to Kontinkangas, the address to the Faculty of Medicine is at Aapistie 5A. Aapistie has some limited parking spaces. Parking spaces that require a parking fee can be found in Aapistie 3, in the parking lot of the dental clinic Dentopolis.

More information: Henna Rannanpää, Alumni Coordinator, alumni@oulu.fi, +358505243723