Speak, Shine & Stand Out – Inspiration from Finland
Are you a high-school student or a university student in ICT or engineering?
Join this free 90-minute workshop to learn how to communicate your strengths, experiences, interests, and future ambitions with confidence and authenticity.
Whether you are applying for a university programme, seeking a traineeship, exchange opportunity, or project collaboration, your ability to make a lasting impression matters.
Don't Freeze. Innovate as You Talk.
- The goal is not to find the perfect answer. It is to become more comfortable expressing ideas, sharing experiences, thinking aloud, and communicating your potential. Often, the most memorable conversations are those that reveal how a person thinks, learns, and approaches challenges rather than what they already know.
Turn Activities into Assets
- Your experiences tell a story that goes well beyond the classroom and your grades. Personal interests, hobbies, projects, and volunteer activities can showcase valuable strengths, initiative, creativity, and problem-solving ability. Learn how to turn these experiences into compelling examples that help you stand out in university admissions, recruitment processes, and collaboration opportunities.
Speak with Confidence
Practise speaking English with confidence, learn a few useful Finnish expressions, and gain insights into how Finnish universities and employers identify promising candidates through their interests, experiences, communication skills, creativity, problem-solving ability, and potential for future growth.
In this hands-on workshop, you will:
- identify your strengths and personal assets
- learn how hobbies, volunteer work, and projects can help you stand out
- practise introducing yourself confidently
- demonstrate creativity and problem-solving in realistic scenarios
- formulate career preferences and future study plans
- discover exciting ICT-related study and career opportunities
- learn from the experiences of Vietnamese students currently studying in Oulu, Finland
Just for fun, you'll discover that Finnish is not always as difficult as people think.
Many technology and innovation words are surprisingly familiar:
- electronics → elektroniikka
ICT Excellence in Oulu
- Oulu is a leading ICT hub in Northern Europe with a highly dynamic and innovation-driven environment.
- ~3 billion People worldwide use daily technologies developed in Oulu
- The Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at the University of Oulu is a global pioneer in ICT technologies, shaping a sustainable and secure digital future.
- 550+ International students
- ≤100 Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects 2025: Telecommunication, Electrical and electronic engineering
