Student’s social benefits

Stu­dents can re­ceive so­cial ben­e­fits on a con­di­tion that they study full time.

Student meals at Herkku

The stu­dents re­ceive one free meal on school days. Morn­ing por­ridge is also free of charge.  In ad­di­tion you can buy break­fast.  The stu­dents have their meals ac­cord­ing to the meal sched­ules, lo­cated in Wilma. If you have a spe­cial diet please in­form your ca­reer coun­sel­lor and she will pass this in­for­ma­tion to Herkku.

If stu­dent has kitchen lessons, meals are pre­pared and con­sumed in a kitchen dur­ing the kitchen lessons, not at Herkku. Be­fore af­ter­noon kitchen lessons, a small af­ter­noon snack is also of­fered in a kitchen.

Student financial aid

KELA (So­cial In­sur­ance In­sti­tu­tion of Fin­land) and the staff at the stu­dent af­fairs of­fice ad­vise stu­dents on stu­dent fi­nan­cial aid is­sues. The stu­dent fi­nan­cial aid is ap­plied for by a KELA form avail­able at the stu­dent af­fairs of­fice. The stu­dent af­fairs of­fice re­ports ab­sences ex­ceed­ing one week or ir­reg­u­lar par­tic­i­pa­tion in the stud­ies to KELA, which de­cides about dis­con­tin­u­ing the pay­ment of fi­nan­cial aid to the stu­dent.

School transport subsidy

Stu­dents are able to re­ceive stu­dent-dis­count prices for trav­el­ing. Stu­dent, who is over sev­en­teen years old, is able to get a HSL (Hel­sinki Re­gion Trans­port), VR-Train Ser­vices or Matkahuolto-Travel Ser­vices dis­count ap­pli­ca­tion form from the stu­dent af­fairs of­fice.

Further information:

• KELA – So­cial In­sur­ance In­sti­tu­tion of Fin­land
• Finnish Rail­way Com­pany VR
• Hel­sinki Re­gion Trans­port HSL
• Long-dis­tance bus trans­port & Travel Ser­vices – Matkahuolto

Housing

The Real Es­tate Com­pany Ki­in­teistö Oy Haaga-Per­hon Asun­not rents shared flats from the dor­mi­tory in Pa­ju­ni­ityn­tie 10, pri­mar­ily to stu­dents of HAAGA-HE­LIA or Perho. Stu­dents are given a place in the dor­mi­tory on grounds of their home town, the length of their jour­ney to school and so­cial fac­tors.

Stu­dents can ap­ply for a hous­ing sup­ple­ment from KELA. In mat­ters con­cern­ing the stu­dent dor­mi­tory please con­tact:  pekka.sa­lo­vaara@haaga.fi (050 302 9173)

Stu­dents can also ap­ply for stu­dent hous­ing from HOAS (Foun­da­tion for Stu­dent Hous­ing in the Hel­sinki Re­gion) by fill­ing in an ap­pli­ca­tion form at http://www.hoas.fi/en/. On the HOAS web pages you will also find fur­ther in­struc­tions for ap­ply­ing and about the ser­vices for ten­ants.

Insurances and accidents

The stu­dents of Perho have been in­sured for ac­ci­dents tak­ing place dur­ing the study term. In ad­di­tion to the statu­tory in­sur­ance the school has in­sured its stu­dents also by a group in­sur­ance which cov­ers ac­ci­dents hap­pen­ing on the jour­ney to and from school. In case of an ac­ci­dent the stu­dent must re­port it im­me­di­ately to the school nurse. The ac­ci­dent in­sur­ance that cov­ers the stu­dents of Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege is valid dur­ing the train­ing or­ga­nized in the work­place pe­riod, in­clud­ing the stu­dent’s jour­ney to and from work. The re­spon­si­bil­ity for pos­si­ble dam­ages done by the stu­dent to a train­ing place­ment com­pany or its cus­tomers lies with the com­pany it­self, as is the case for em­ploy­ees in gen­eral.

In case of any in­ci­dents dur­ing the day of the train­ing pe­riod the stu­dent may go di­rectly to the doc­tor and in­form about his/her stu­dent sta­tus at Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege and tell that he/she is in­sured by Perho (Fen­nia Group In­sur­ance.). The next day stu­dent must fill in the in­sur­ance form with the school nurse, which will be is­sued to doc­tor.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion can be found from the train­ing or­ga­nized in the work­place ac­ci­dent guide (lo­cated in iPerho)

Lataa tiedosto (PDF, 464KB)

In case of any in­ci­dents out­side Fin­land dur­ing the train­ing pe­riod, the stu­dent may go di­rectly to the lo­cal doc­tor and in­form his/her train­ing teacher. Stu­dent may need to pay his med­i­cal bill, which will be re­funded later against the re­ceipt by the school.

The student card & discounts

Ap­pli­ca­tion forms for join­ing the the na­tional union of Finnish vo­ca­tional stu­dents (Sakki or Osku) are avail­able at the stu­dent af­fairs of­fice. The card en­ti­tles the stu­dent to var­i­ous dis­counts. For more in­for­ma­tion, go to https://sakkiry.fi/  ja http://osku.info/.

Photo: Mi­ikka Piri­nen