Membership

In the academic year 2025-2026, the membership fee for Doctoral researchers is 40 euros per academic year or 20 euros per term.

Doctoral researchers may join the Student Union and pay their membership when they register in the Oili system. They can also join the Student Union and pay the fee at any time during the academic year. If you join the Student Union during the semester, you can pay the membership fee directly to the Student Union’s bank account. After joining the Student Union, you can order a green graduate student card indicating your membership (the card for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree students is blue).

Register at Oili

Order the student card

membership payment in kide.app

NB: Doctoral researchers are not entitled to use FSHS services or the student lunch benefit.

Doctoral researchers have been eligible to VR (train) tickets from 1.1.2024 onwards. Doctoral researchers can also receive local benefits such as student-priced tickets to different events, discounted hobby opportunities and discounts in different stores. As an OYY member, Doctoral researchers are entitled to use all of our services. Doctoral researchers may also run or vote in the Student Council election.

The Student Union has a section for Doctoral researchers (Doctoral Researchers Section DRS). DRS aims to make the voices of different Doctoral researchers heard and bring awareness to their needs in the University of Oulu and the Student Union. All Doctoral researchers are welcome to join, but only members of the Student Union can act as official members or Chairs of the section. The section operates in English. General information on Doctoral researcher related matters can be received by joining an email list.

OYY coordinates the selection of Doctoral researchers for Doctoral programme committees and the follow-up group. All Doctoral researchers in University of Oulu who are members of OYY may apply to Doctoral programme committees and the UniOGS follow-up group. You can find the application announcements on our web page.

Doctoral Researchers’ Section

Join the Doctoral researcher email list

The Student Union membership services

You can order the physical student card via the University shop. The cards are delivered to the Student Union office or at Kontinkangas campus service point. You will be notified after your card has been delivered, after which you may retrieve the card. The student card must have a term sticker, proving its validity. When you order the card, it will already have the first sticker on. After that, the sticker must be replaced annually either by retrieving it from the Student Union office or the Academic Affairs Service Point, or by having it delivered to your home by placing an order via kide.app.

Note! New students can only order a student card once their University IDs are active.

Student cards and 24/7 access cards ordered by continuing students during the summer will be delivered in August.

Ordering the Student card

Ordering the membership sticker

OYY members can use the mobile version of the student card on Tuudo, which can be installed free of charge. You’ll receive your Tuudo student verification as soon as you install the app and log in with your University of Oulu student account. Activation of the card may require that you update the app.

Tuudo

The term sticker proves the validity of the student card. The term sticker for the full academic year and the Autumn term sticker become valid at the start of the new academic year from the beginning of August. The Spring term sticker becomes valid at the start of a new year.

E.g., in student restaurants, VR and Matkahuolto, the Autumn term sticker is valid until the end of January the following year, and the Spring and full academic year term stickers are valid until the end of September.

Note that FSHS’s practices deviate from this. You are only entitled to use FSHS services until the end of term or academic year. So, the Autumn term sticker is valid until the end of December, and the Spring and full academic year term stickers are valid until the end of May. Continuing students may use FSHS services during the summer using the previous term’s sticker, but from the beginning of September the card must have a new sticker.

You can get stickers from the Student Union office, Academic Affairs Service Point, and delivered to your home via kide.app.

Ordering the Membership sticker