Teknologföreningen

Teknologföreningen

Teknologföreningen is the only nation, a kind of Finnish student corporation, at the Helsinki University of Technology. The only other University in Finland hosting corporations is the University of Helsinki.

Teknologföreningen was founded in 1872, making it older than the University's student union. Teknologföreningen's primary purpose is to unite students interested in speaking the Swedish language and to guarantee equal rights to Swedish-speaking students at the bilingual HUT.

Teknologföreningen has its own peculiar building named "Urdsgjallar" - a building that resembles the shape of a drinking horn seen from an aerial perspective, that according to legend has no two perpendicular walls. The name of the building derives from Gjallarhorn of norse mythology. The building hosts a lunch restaurant for students as well as rooms intended for work and recreational purpouses. The building also hosts a semicircular sauna called "Pi" with a radius of 3.14 meters.


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