Nations in Finnish universities (original) (raw)

About DBpedia

In Finland, student nations (in Finnish, sg. osakunta, pl. osakunnat; in Swedish (student)nation) are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place. Though membership is not compulsory, the nations provide one of the main nodes of student social life, along with the faculty-based organisations (ainejärjestöt) at the universities.

thumbnail

Property Value
dbo:abstract In Finland, student nations (in Finnish, sg. osakunta, pl. osakunnat; in Swedish (student)nation) are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place. Though membership is not compulsory, the nations provide one of the main nodes of student social life, along with the faculty-based organisations (ainejärjestöt) at the universities. The first Finnish student nations were originally established at The Royal Academy of Turku. When the Academy moved to Helsinki after the Great Fire of Turku taking the name Imperial Alexander University in Finland, the nations moved along with it. Their institutional form is based on the original nation system of the University of Uppsala. After Finland had gained its independence from Russia, the university was renamed as the University of Helsinki. Today there are 15 nations, each one representing a historic region or province of Finland. Four of these nations represent Swedish-speaking regions which overlay some of the remaining 12 regions, which are Finnish-speaking regions. For example, Åbo Nation and Varsinaissuomalainen osakunta ("Finland Proper Nation") both represent a very similar geographic region, though the former is Swedish- and the latter Finnish-Speaking. In addition to the nations at Helsinki University, there is also an association for Swedish-speaking students, Teknologföreningen, at Aalto University, and it is also legally a nation. The 16 nations, those at Helsinki University and Teknologföreningen, have a special legal status as their existence and overall purpose is regulated by the Universities Act. Therefore, organizations termed "nations" at other Finnish universities founded in the 20th century are not nations in the legal sense of the word, but instead associations, regulated by the Associations Act. For example, at the University of Turku, there are four student nations established in the 1920s. (en)
dbo:thumbnail wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Nylands_Nations_hus.jpg?width=300
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink http://asna.abo.fi
dbo:wikiPageID 29823028 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageInterLanguageLink dbpedia-fi:Osakunta
dbo:wikiPageLength 4442 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID 1106299096 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink dbr:Satakuntalainen_Osakunta dbr:Savolainen_osakunta dbr:University_of_Helsinki dbr:Varsinaissuomalainen_osakunta dbr:Vasa_nation dbr:Nation_(university) dbr:Åbo_Nation dbr:Östra_Finlands_Nation dbr:Teknologföreningen dbr:Wiipurilainen_Osakunta dbr:University_of_Turku dbr:Aalto_University dbr:Etelä-Pohjalainen_Osakunta dbr:Eteläsuomalainen_osakunta dbr:Finland dbc:Student_societies_in_Finland dbr:Finland_Proper dbc:Universities_and_colleges_in_Finland dbr:Karjalainen_Osakunta dbr:Keskisuomalainen_Osakunta dbr:Pohjois-Pohjalainen_Osakunta dbr:Great_Fire_of_Turku dbr:Hämäläis-Osakunta dbr:Kymenlaakson_Osakunta dbr:Nylands_Nation dbr:The_Royal_Academy_of_Turku dbr:University_of_Uppsala dbr:File:Nylands_Nations_hus.jpg dbr:Student_nation dbr:Swedish-speaking_Finns dbr:Österbottniska_Nationen
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description
dcterms:subject dbc:Student_societies_in_Finland dbc:Universities_and_colleges_in_Finland
gold:hypernym dbr:Organisations
rdf:type yago:WikicatUniversitiesInFinland yago:Abstraction100002137 yago:EducationalInstitution108276342 yago:Group100031264 yago:Institution108053576 yago:Organization108008335 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:Organisation yago:SocialGroup107950920 yago:University108286569
rdfs:comment In Finland, student nations (in Finnish, sg. osakunta, pl. osakunnat; in Swedish (student)nation) are student organisations within which a large proportion of extra-curricular student activity takes place. Though membership is not compulsory, the nations provide one of the main nodes of student social life, along with the faculty-based organisations (ainejärjestöt) at the universities. (en)
rdfs:label Nations in Finnish universities (en)
owl:sameAs freebase:Nations in Finnish universities yago-res:Nations in Finnish universities wikidata:Nations in Finnish universities https://global.dbpedia.org/id/bmGW
prov:wasDerivedFrom wikipedia-en:Nations_in_Finnish_universities?oldid=1106299096&ns=0
foaf:depiction wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Nylands_Nations_hus.jpg
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf wikipedia-en:Nations_in_Finnish_universities
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of dbr:Nations_at_Finnish_universities dbr:Student_Nations_of_Helsinki_University
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of dbr:University_of_Helsinki dbr:Östra_Finlands_Nation dbr:Landsmannschaft_(Studentenverbindung) dbr:Hämäläis-Osakunta dbr:Nations_at_Finnish_universities dbr:Student_Nations_of_Helsinki_University
is foaf:primaryTopic of wikipedia-en:Nations_in_Finnish_universities