Hi all,

The wellbeing group wants to remind you about various wellbeing services offered by the department!

The Department of Computer Science offers its employees various services to promote their wellbeing, and organises different recreational events every year. The annual recreational events for employees include the Christmas party, the winter sports day, and the two-day strategy seminar.

This year, the winter sports day will be held in Curling hall Oulunkylä on 4 March. Please register by Thursday, 25. February using the e-form.

The strategy seminar will be held in on 24-25 May. Further information about the seminar will follow.

In addition, the department organises a monthly meetings and morning coffees for the staff where current affairs are discussed. The next monthly meeting will be on this Friday, 12 Feb at 14:00 in C222. Next morning coffees will be on 29 Feb and 4 April starting at 9 am.

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At the department, employees have the following at their service:

• A massaging chair: room C209. Turn the sign on the door so it says varattu (occupied) while you are using the chair, and turn it back to vapaa (unoccupied) when you leave.
• Massaging seats: there are two massaging seats in the break room (B225) that anyone can use.
• SAD lamps: three lamps, available for loan in office D243.

Swimming tickets

The department has bought swimming tickets for the staff to "Urheiluhallit" Sport Centers at Helsinki (Kallio, Kontula, Malmi, Mäkelänrinne, Siltamäki, Töölö, Vuosaari). You can fetch swimming tickets in office D238. Please note that Mäkelänrinne is closed between 22.3. - 1.10 because of renovation.

The CS Department's sports turns

• Mondays, 13-14: Floorball: Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B field
• Tuesdays, 9.30-10.30: Indoor football: Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B and C fields. Tuesdays turn is shared with staff of the finnish meteorological institute (FMI).
• Thursdays, 9.15-10.15: Various sports: Circuit training (3 March, leaded by Jani Jaakkola), later either futsal, circuit training or something else. Kumpula sports center, 2. floor, B field.

You don't need to pay the sports fee to participate, but you need to have your staff or student id with you. You need indoor shoes and also a floorball stick for floorball turns. Floorball sticks can be rented from the sports center. We are playing only for fun, so anyone is welcome to participate, regardless of sports skills. You don't need to speak or understand finnish.

Please, register your participation to floorball turns using Doodle. For indoor and outdoor football turn registration we use FMI's registration system with user account tktl and password potkii. The registration is only needed for cancelling turns when there is not enough players, so feel free to participate even when you forgot to register.

The university's sports services

The university's sports services offers its services on all four of the Helsinki University campuses. The sports centre at the Kumpula campus is located centrally on the campus. Its specialities are good and varied facilities for ball games, as well as a wall for climbing. The website of the university's sports services contains more information on what is on offer, and a system for making reservations.

Paying the sports fee

The department will pay 50 % of the sports fee for full time employees of the department (with contract 6 months at least), i.e. including employees who are contracted to work at least 20 hours a week. The sports fee gives you access to the gym, exercise classes, and reserved ball games in all of the University Sports Services centers. In addition, the sports fee will gain you reduced prices for other services that the University Sports Services offers for additional fees and for the services of its cooperation partners. The sports fee is personal, and cannot be transferred to another person. Activate your sports fee in person (by fetching a sports sticker) at one of the University Sports centers. The 'sports period' must start inside 30 days of activating the sports fee.

The updated list with the names of employees who have the right to 50 % subsidized sports fees during this contract period is now delivered to the university's sports centers. Any questions please contact Inka Kujala D237 (inka.kujala(at)cs.helsinki.fi).

Have a sporty year :)

Wishes the well-being team

Antti-Pekka, Inka, Jani, Pauliina, Teija & Tiina

ps. Suggestions and all kinds of feedback are welcome at hyvinvointi-list(at)cs.helsinki.fi.