Amount of the membership fee

For the whole academic year 2024-2025, the fee is 65 euros. For students coming for one semester only, the fee is 32,5 euros for autumn semester and 32,5 euros for spring semester. The FSHS fee is paid seperately to Kela if you are a degree student. Read the instructions on paying the FSHS fee on Kela website. The exchange students receive health care services from public health care in Tampere and do not have to pay the FSHS fee.

The membership fee for doctoral students for the whole academic year is 35 euros. Students enrolling only for one semester pay half of the fee (17,50 euros). Unfortunately doctoral students are not entitled to the services of FSHS, so they do not pay health care fee either.

The funds collected from the membership fees are used to fund the advocacy work of the student and to maintain member services, including funding for student associations.

If you wish to use the sport facilities of SportUni, you must pay their fee separately. The SportUni fee for the whole academic year 2024-2025 is 88 euros. The fee for the autumn semester is 50 euros, and for the spring semester 60 euros. Please check SportUni webpage for instructions how you get access to their services. You need to be present for the year / semester to use the sports services.

Distribution of the membership fee

Visualization of TREY's membership fee.

TREY’s membership fee is divided by theme according to the pie chart above. The figures in the chart are calculated by finances and activities in 2023.

  • Advocacy 16%
  • Office and IT expenses 15% (includes, for example, rents for the Student Union office, available working equipment and IT administration)
  • Visiiri magazine 12%
  • Administration and finances 12%
  • Cooperation agreements and memberships elsewhere 11%
  • Position of trust expenses 10% (includes the expenses of the Board, the Representative Council and the Committees)
  • Association activities and grants 10%
  • Member services 7%
  • Events 7%

The Student Union carries out tutoring with a cooperation agreement with Tampere University, so it is not included in the chart above. The Student Union also has other income than membership fees, but they are not included in this visualization.

How to pay the membership fee?

The deadline for payments is 5 September 2024 in the autumn semester and 7 January 2025 in the spring semester.

Card payments are possible at our city centre  and Hervanta Service Office starting in August 2024, but we strogly recommend paying the fee beforehand. Students who have a bank account in a SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) country may use online banking, since additional fees will not be charged. Additionally, students can pay the membership fee at some Finnish banks, but this requires a Finnish personal identity code and ensuring that the bank office in question accepts payments. The payment slip with a reference number can be collected from the Student Affairs Office. Keep the receipt from the payment, as you will need it until you have your student card in your hands. Degree students can enroll and pay the membership fee on OILI -service.

I paid even though I’ve enrolled as absent / I paid too much / I made some other mistake.

Please contact the student union (help@trey.fi) or Student Affairs Office. If you contact us by email, be sure to include your bank account information and student number. If you’ve enrolled as absent, a requirement for the refund is that you do not have a valid annual registration sticker on your student card. In case you have paid too much or paid when you did not need to, the money will be refunded to you. If you have already paid the student union memberhip fee, but decide to enrol as absent for the semester the last day for refund is 5 September in the autumn semester and 7 January in the spring semester.

Why hasn’t my membership fee been processed yet?

There might be at least two different reasons. First, electronic payments have a short delay due to the refreshing interval of the databases. Second, TREY receives the information about bank transfers on the next day. As the banks remain closed on Saturday and Sunday, money paid on the account on Friday will not reach us until Monday morning at the earliest. Once the student union receives the information about the payment, it will be logged into the student register during the same day.

If even after several days your payment doens’t show, please contact us help@trey.fi or Student Affairs Office. Attach your membership fee receipt to your message.

Student benefits and enrolling as present

To take advantage of student benefits, you must be registered as present at the Tampere University and pay the membership fee to the student union. A student of Tampere University doing exchange studies elsewhere must also enroll as present in Tampere for the duration of their exchange in order to receive the annual registration sticker on the student card. Please note that if you enroll as absent, you will not receive the annual registration sticker and the student benefits will not apply to you. Exchange students and new students in the degree programmes in English need to register at Tampere University in person.

I can’t come to TREY’s office to get the sticker

There are couple of ways you can get the sticker without visiting TREY Service Office or Student Affairs Office:

The membership fee and graduating at the beginning of the term

To graduate in August, you have to enrol as present for the autumn semester and pay the student union membership fee. If graduate in August, you can apply for a membership fee refund (if you wish) until end of September 2024. Students who graduate in September must enroll for the new academic year and pay the membership fee of the student union for the autumn term.

If you have paid the fee for the spring term unnecessarily and graduate in January 2025, you can get a refund until end of February. Students who graduate in February or later must pay the membership fee for the spring term. The fee for the spring term can be paid in December and enrolment for the spring term can be done until 7 January 2025.

Please apply the refund from Student Affairs Office: studentservices.tau@tuni.fi or call 0294 520 200 or contact help@trey.fi.

How do I get the payment information if I’ve temporarily suspended my studies?

You will get the payment information from the university’s Student Affairs Office.

I’m studying in two different study programmes in Tampere University. What whould I do with my enrolment and membership fee?

If you have two different study programmes in Tampere University and have enrolled as present to both, the enrolment might ask you to pay the membership fee twice. However the membership fee should be paid only once, so contact Student Affairs Office about your enrolment. If you’ve already paid the membership fee twice, contact help@trey.fi for a refund.