EESTEC LC Tampere

What's going on?

EESTEC LC Tampere is gathering it's strengths after the awesome Kyykkae Exchange. The spring's program consists of visting the EESTEC Congress, a general meeting, a local sauna party and of course visiting as many international events as possible. You can see the invitations to eestec events from our blog.

What is EESTEC?

The Electrical Engineering STudents European assoCiation is an organization of and for electrical engineering and computer science students from universities, institutes or technical schools in Europe that award an engineering degree. It was founded in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 1986. Since 1995 it is a recognized association seated in Zürich, Switzerland. From year 2002 the EESTEC seat returned to the Netherlands, but now in Delft. A Local Committee is a local branch of EESTEC International. Currently there are 39 LCs in more than 20 countries with over 1700 members.

The primary aim of EESTEC is to promote and develop international contacts between students and professionals. The sharing of ideas and experience among electrical engineering and computer science students is made possible through workshops, exchanges and other activities. EESTEC is also promoting international career and job opportunities. For example, one of the ongoing projects in that field is to make a database of electrical engineering and computer science students so that the companies can easily find and recruit professionals throughout Europe. [http://eestec.org/what-is-eestec] Read more about EESTEC from EESTEC's official website

What is LC Tampere?

LC Tampere is one of the first members in EESTEC - since 1986. LC Tampere used to be a part of the electric engineering guild Skilta. But in 2001 it separated from Skilta and became an own organisation. LC Tampere is working under Tampere University of Technology, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering. The yearly schedule mostly consists of participating in exchanges and naturally organizing them, participating in EESTEC's congress and keeping in contact with other LC's.