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Principles of a safer space

All events and leisure activities organised by JYY follow the Safer Space Principles to ensure that everyone can participate in a respectful and welcoming environment. If you experience harassment, you can reach out to JYY’s harassment contact persons.

Events follow the principles of a safer space

The purpose of these principles is to make JYY’s activities safer for everyone. Everyone has the right to feel safe and free from discrimination and harassment. The following principles bind all participants of JYY’s activities and events. Please contact the harassment contact persons if you feel that these principles have been breached.

JYY’s principles of a safer space

  1. Be open and strive to understand each other. Face new subjects and persons without prejudice. Let’s take new situations as an opportunity to learn something new and let’s encourage each other to grow and improve. Assume that others have good intentions.
  2. Aim to avoid assumptions and to recognize our own presumptions, so they wouldn’t affect how we meet other people. Let’s also recognize our privileges and social positions.
  3. Avoid discriminative and excluding language. Everyone has the right to be treated equally and not to be discriminated against. Don’t mock, defame or exclude with your speech, behaviour or actions.
  4. Respect each other and everyone’s personal psychical and physical space. Ask more space for yourself if needed. Don’t harass others verbally, with physical touch or for example by staring.
  5. Bring up difficult subjects and situations. If you see harassment or other kind of inappropriate behaviour, try to intervene. Be open to listen and to grow. Apologize, if you have offended others. Let’s also remember that it’s human nature to make mistakes.
  6. Let’s be aware of physical and psychological accessibility in our activities, so everyone has the same opportunity to take part in JYY’s activities. Let’s strive to find the best possible space for events with this in mind. Let’s support and make possible for everyone to participate and be heard for example by clearing up difficult terms and concepts.

Harassment contact persons

Suvi Liukkonen

Event Producer

+358 45 137 1961

Event Producer is responsible for Jyrock festival and other cultural events of the Student Union. She also works as one of JYY’s harassment contact persons.

Karri Kekkonen

Specialist in Social Affairs

+358 50 307 0540

The Specialist in Social Affairs is in charge of trusteeship work regarding students’ well-being. His responsibilities include the FSHS, students’ livelihood, equality and accessibility. He also works as one of JYY’s harassment contact persons.

Petro Pitkänen

Specialist in Member and Association Affairs

+358 50 430 6747

The Member Services Secretary is your closest contact as a member of the Student Union. He is available during office opening hours and responds to queries. You can contact him by phone, email, Telegram or Whatsapp! He also works as one of JYY’s harassment contact persons.

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