Get your year tag and student calendar from the City Centre campus, Kumpula or HYY Services Office!

The student union’s logo and the text “service office” on a glass wall.
Bulletin 21.8.2026

If you have already registered for attendance for the new academic term, you can come pick up a new year tag for your plastic student card!

HYY and the University of Helsinki will be setting up year tag distribution points on the City Centre campus and in Kumpula at the end of August and beginning of September. The opening hours of HYY’s Services Office have also been extended.

The year tag is used to check the validity of your student status from the plastic student card. The tag needs to be picked up in person or by using a power of attorney. If your student card has a payment feature, the year tag is only handed over personally to the owner of the card. This means that the card cannot be sent by post either. If you only use the digital student card, you don’t need a year tag.

Year tags are given to students who have registered for attendance and paid HYY’s membership fee. Students of the University of Helsinki can register for the academic year 2026–2027 until Monday 31 August 2026. HYY’s membership fee is paid in connection with the registration. 

Please note that your payment might not be registered immediately!

Year tag collection points on campuses

City Centre campus

Lobby of Kaisa House
Fabianinkatu 30

  • Week 35: Mon–Thu 24–27 August at 12 noon–4 pm
  • Week 36: Mon–Thu 31 August–3 September at 12 noon–4 pm

Kumpula

Lobby of Physicum
Gustaf Hällströmin katu 2

  • Week 35: Mon–Thu 24–27 August at 12 noon–4 pm
  • Week 36: Mon–Thu 31 August–3 September at 12 noon–4 pm

If you cannot make it to the year tag collection points to pick up your year tag, you can also get yours from HYY’s Services Office or the student service points on campuses. You can also pick up the student calendar from the year tag collection points.

Opening hours of HYY’s Services Office

  • Mon 10 am–4 pm
  • Tue–Fri 10 am–3 pm

Exceptional opening hours:

  • 18 August OPEN 10–11.30 am
  • 19 August OPEN 10 am–6 pm
  • 1 September OPEN 10 am–6 pm
  • 14 September OPEN 10 am–6 pm

You can find our Services Office in the glass booth in the lobby of Domus Gaudium at Mechelininkatu 3, 00100 Helsinki. Access to the Services Office is through the entrance facing Leppäsuonkatu!

Text: HYY Communications
Photo: Anniina Sjöblom (University of Helsinki)