The Association of the Finnish History Students (Historian Opiskelijain Liitto, abbreviation HOL), is the central organization of history students in Finland, most of history student societies as acting members. Nowadays there are eleven student societies belonging to the HOL from six different cities: Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Joensuu and Oulu.<\/p>\n
In Finland student societies are founded by students themselves. Their main objective is to take care of the student\u2019s interests in their own universities. They bring forward students\u2019 opinions, for example when new exam requirements and teaching methods are planned. They also offer students all kinds of get-togethers to spend their free time; some even think this is student society\u2019s main objective.<\/p>\n
The Idea of co-operation between student societies from different universities was put forward in the mid 1960\u2019s when Finland\u2019s university-network was expanding. The HOL was founded in 1966 and it\u2019s run by an executive committee, in which every student society has one representative. For every term there is always so-called host-student society that has three seats in the executive committee: president, secretary and treasurer. Nevertheless the host-student society has only one vote. The duty of host-student society changes between members every year in beforehand agreed order and this change happens at the annual HOL spring seminar. Besides the spring seminar there is also every year a fall seminars and they are the ma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Association of the Finnish History Students (Historian Opiskelijain Liitto, abbreviation HOL), is the central organization of history students in Finland, most of history student societies as acting members. Nowadays there are eleven student societies belonging to the HOL from six different cities: Helsinki, Turku, Tampere, Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, Joensuu and Oulu. In Finland student societies are … <\/p>\n