Student card

The student card is a proof of membership for Student Union members. A student card carrier gets all student discounts, both locally and nationally.
As a member of VYY, you are entitled to a digital Slice student card, which you can use to redeem thousands of valuable student benefits across Finland by Finland’s largest student benefit service.

The student card is used as identification when visiting the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS) offices and in lunch restaurants for obtaining the Kela meal subsidy for students. In addition to that, students receive significant national discounts including VR railway and Matkahuolto bus tickets. In addition, VYY offers its own local benefits, which can be found via Slice application.

The digital student card Slice is available on iOS and Android smartphones. In order to use the app, please make sure you are registered as “attending” for this term in the university registry. Please note, that Slice will stop working after your graduation and if you are not registered as an attending student, regardless of what the app would say on the length of how long the card would work

New students can access the student cardfrom 1.8.2024 onward.To access the card, the student must register for attendance and pay the student union membership fee. The student card can be activated once the student's information has been transferred to the university's systems. This may take a few days after the payment of the membership fee.

How to set up Slice student card?

1. Download the Slice app from Google Play or App Store.
2. Use your browser to visit slice.fi/vyy and order your digital student card by filling in the form with your information and photo. You will receive an email shortly after.
3. You can now log in to the Slice app with the login information received in your email.

Note! Please use your student email provided by the university of Vaasa. You need to have access to the email to activate the card.

You can find help with any problems on the Slice website or by contacting the Student Union at ylioppilaskunta@vyy.fi or calling 044 324 8980. If you are experiencing technical issues, please contact info@slice.fi.

Resetting your student card

If you change your phone, you will need to update your Slice student card to the new phone by resetting it. Resetting can also be used to solve occasional problems.

Go to slice.fi/resetoi and enter your email address known to Slice. After a few moments, you will receive a link in your email, which you can click on to receive the new application activation details in your email. With these credentials, you can log in to the Slice.fi application.

How can I access the ISIC international student card?

You can download the ISIC app on your phone and order the card for € 10/year. For more information, visit isic.fi. However, we recommend using slice app as the student card since it is more reliable and trustworthy student card in finland.

Plastic student card

Plastic student cards are ordered and paid online.

Before the arrival of newly ordered student cards in autumn, the receipt for Student Union membership fee payment will be used as a temporary student ID on campus and should therefore be kept.

The plastic student card is valid for the entire period of study and it is updated annually with a valid academic year sticker.

We only give out academic year stickers to student cards with the VYY logo or University of Vaasa-text on it, not to the student cards of other universities or institutes of higher education.

If you have any questions related to student cards and academic year stickers, please contact us via ylioppilaskunta@vyy.fi.

What if my student card goes missing?

You may order a new one. Once the card has arrived, remember to collect a new academic year sticker!

Please read the instructions carefully before ordering the card!

In order to get the student card:

• all the new students will be registered as University students at the beginning of each academic year (1st of August and 1st of January). Ordering the student card is not possible before that date.
• you need to register yourself as attending to the university and pay the student union membership fee.
• you have either a credit card or a possibility to use online banking. The card costs 10 euros.
• you have an appropriate photo of yourself. Make sure the photo is a face photo resembling a passport photo: well-lit and clear, preferably with a light and neutral background. If you don’t have such a photo, you can take one with your phone.

Please remember that

• if you are studying for a Master's degree, you are entitled to blue student card
• if you are a post-graduate (=doctoral) student, you are entitled to green student card
• blue and green student cards have significant differences in discounts, so make sure you'll order the right one! In case you're unsure which card is the right one for you, please contact us ylioppilaskunta@vyy.fi and state your student number
• if you have ordered a wrong card type or a card with a photo that does not meet the criteria, you will have to order a new card that meets the criteria. The payments for false orders will not be refunded.
• if the card is not collected within 2 years, the card will become the student union’s property and it will be destroyed.

When you have ordered the card

• The order will go directly to the card manufacturer. The estimated manufacturing time is 1-2 weeks.
• You don't get an arrival notice when the card is ready to be picked up. Come by the service office and ask if it has arrived.
• When collecting your card, you must have a valid photo identification (passport, driver’s license or an official ID card).
• The student card can be collected from VYY service office in Domus Bothnica. Please check the opening hours.

If you are unable to collect your card from VYY service office, the student card can be sent to you via mail. In order to get your student card via mail, the applicant should mail a photo copy of your picture ID and a return envelope with postage paid and the return address written on it to the VYY Service Office address:

Vaasan yliopiston ylioppilaskunta/ opiskelijakortit
PL 700, 65101 Vaasa
65200 VAASA

Please note that VYY is not responsible for any lost mail containing student cards, so the safest and quickest way is to pick up the student card in person.

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Distribution of stickers starts on on  August each year. Spring semester stickers are available starting on the 1st of January. The academic year sticker can be picked up at the Konttori building, where the VYY service office is located.

Service office contact info and opening hours

The autumn semester sticker is valid until the end of January of the following year, while the spring semester and full academic year stickers are valid until the end of September of that year. Please note that FSHS services require a paid membership fee already from 1.8. onwards! The autumn membership fee must be paid before going to an FSHS appointment after the 1st of August.

The academic year sticker is always attached directly to the student card by a Student Union employee. We do not hand out the stickers separately. If the sticker is picked up by someone other than the student themselves, the person picking up the sticker must have a power of attorney. The academic year sticker will only be given out to a student card that has the VYY logo on it, and only after the Student Union membership fee has been paid and the membership is registered as ‘attending’ in Peppi.

NOTE! Stickers to student cards equipped with the payment feature can be received only in person by picking them up at the VYY office! If you cannot visit Vaasa before the expiration date of the sticker, please contact the us at ylioppilaskunta@vyy.fi.

If you are unable to retrieve your sticker from Vaasa yourself

There are two different options for obtaining the academic year sticker from outside Vaasa:

1) Via mail

All holders of student cards without the payment feature (even if the payment feature of a payment feature card has not been activated, it must not be mailed) can get an academic year sticker via mail.

In order to change an academic year sticker via mail, the applicant should mail a valid student card, a photo copy of your picture ID and a return envelope with postage paid and the return address written on it to the VYY Service Office address:

Vaasan yliopiston ylioppilaskunta/ opiskelijakortit
PL 700
65101 VAASA

Please note that all semester stickers are issued only directly to a student card. Sending stickers alone by mail is not possible. VYY is not responsible for any lost mail containing student cards, so the safest and quickest way is to pick up the academic year sticker in person. At peak times the processing and returning of the card may take up to few weeks.

2) Pick-up from another student union

If mail delivery is not possible, another option is to pick up a sticker for the card from the student union of another university.

Before you begin, please contact VYY. The easiest way is to send an email to the Student Union at ylioppilaskunta@vyy.fi and tell us what is the most suitable location / student union for you to pick up your sticker. Please include your student number in your email. VYY will check your enrolment status and pass on the necessary information to the student union in question.

The sticker must be picked up from the student union in question during office hours on weekdays. Below is a list of participating student unions and links to office hours of their student union offices. When picking up a sticker, you will need a student card and an identity card. Picking up a sticker from another student union requires a payment of service fee of EUR 5 to cover the cost of the additional work.

Participating student unions:

AYY (Espoo)
ISYY (Joensuu, Kuopio)
JYY (Jyväskylä)
LTKY (Lappeenranta)
LYY (Rovaniemi)
OYY (Oulu)
TaiYo (Helsinki)
TREY (Tampere)
TYY (Turku)
ÅAS (Turku)