Member benefits

Student discounts

Students get many kinds of discounts by showing their student card. For example, HSL, VR and Matkahuolto usually give undergraduate students a 40–50% discount of their tickets. There are also many student restaurants in the Helsinki area that offer inexpensive lunch; more information on student meals can be found here.

In addition to the essential travel and lunch discounts, many shops, services and cultural institutions offer different discounts to students. Many of these student benefits and offers can be found on the website of the student utility service FrankThere are a few examples below of student discounts, particularly for cultural services, but more benefits and discounts are continuously being updated on the Frank website, so be sure to check out the latest offers!

• All Uniarts Helsinki’s own productions are free of charge for the university’s students (with the exception of some Siba concerts): students are entitled to a free ticket to all Sibelius Academy events and two free tickets to all Theatre Academy events. Academy of Fine Arts exhibitions are always free of charge, and also Siba examinations are open and free for everyone.
• The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Finnish National Opera all give student discounts. HPO’s and FRSO’s rehearsals are free of charge for Siba students.
• Most theatres sell tickets with student discounts.
• Most art museums give student discounts. At least Ateneum, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Sinebrychoff Art Museum and Helsinki Art Museum also have certain times when you can visit the museum free of charge.
• Finnkino movie theatres give a student discount of 10-30 % depending on the screening.
• Sheet music shop Ostinato, which was originally founded by art students, gives a 10 % student discount to all Uniarts students.
• The Finnish Hostel Association offers a discount on the hostel card and other student benefits at its member hostels.
• Franks webpage has hundreds of other student discounts from travel tickets, magazines, clothes, electronics, hotels and restaurants. Go check it out!

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As a new benefit of Uniarts Helsinki, you now have a unique opportunity to download familiar and safe Office tools to your home computer free of charge in the form of an Office 365 ProPlus package.
Office 365 ProPlus includes a useful software package for studies, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook. You can download Office on five of your own devices and activate Office on your smartphone, Mac and iPad with your Office 365 account.

Downloading Office 365 ProPlus is easy:
1. In the browser of your home computer, open the address: https://portal.office.com/OLS/MySoftware.aspx
2. Log in with your O365 account in format account@uniarts.fi (if you have problems logging in, you should try another browser)
3. Click the Install button at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions