Karelia is preparing for possible power cuts related to national energy saving measures. These outages may be pre-announced, lasting approximately two hours, or unannounced outages of varying lengths.
Staff and students will work as long as possible on campus according to normal practice. The President will decide on a case-by-case basis whether to move to full distance working/teaching. This decision will be communicated separately where appropriate.
At this stage, we do not restrict the use of our facilities. Karelia’s security team is actively monitoring the situation and will take action if necessary.
Information on power cuts
Where possible, staff, students and other campus stakeholders are informed of power cuts in advance, usually at least 24 hours before the outage. Our information channels are:
- Students: Pakki, Tuudo, announcements, info TV and email
- Staff: intra, announcements, Secapp mobile app, infotv and email
For questions and further information, please contact the Karelia Security Team: [email protected], Security Team phone number 013 260 6112.
Impact of the power cut on Karelia’s operations
1) Disruption to premises during a power cut
- For lighting, emergency lighting will display green symbols on exit routes for about 1 hour
The external doors will lock, but you will be able to exit normally. However, during a power cut, you can only enter with a PIN code. During a power cut, we recommend using the door next to the automatic sliding door in Building A on Tikkarinne campus. On the Wärtsilä campus, we recommend using the door on the Ollinkatu side. During a power outage, each person passing through the door must ensure that the doors are closed when leaving the building.
- Do not use the lift when a power cut is expected. This will ensure that you don’t get stuck in the lift. Alarm systems in lifts will also work during a power cut. Lifts will not operate during a power failure.
- Cold water is available.
- Try to avoid using the toilet during a power cut.
- The heating is not working, so avoid opening windows and doors unnecessarily.
- Air conditioning is not working
- The fire alarm system will work also during a power cut.
- In laboratories and other special areas with machinery and equipment, more detailed instructions are available in case of power cuts.
- Borrowing and renewing library materials is not possible during a power outage. Library materials can be returned to the return shelf inside the library or to the return box outside the entrance. Returns will be processed when the power outage is over. Library customer service phone Mon-Fri 8:30-15:00: 050 311 9545.
- The use of EXAM examination facility is interrupted.
| In the event of a disruption, please contact: On weekdays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. to the campus caretakers: Tikkarinne tel. 050 592 8138 and Wärtsilä tel. 050 326 8462Evenings after 16:00 and weekends: Property Maintenance tel. 050 017 6500 |
2) Impact of power cuts on the services of Student and Admission Services
During power cuts, both the customer service of Student Services on Tikkarinne campus and the remote service are closed. Phone service (013 260 6412) is available on Mon-Tue and Thu-Fri at 11.00-14.00.
The following services are not available during power cuts:
- Peppi system
- Certificates printed out through the Atomi service (transcript of records, study certificate)
- Graduation applications through the graduation system VALO
- Pakki student portal
- Information on Peppi and Pakki will not be updated and transferred to Tuudo
- Chat service
- Outlook email
- Use of Webropol forms (transfer of CampusOnline studies)
As regards the Admission Services, power cuts also have on impact on the management of information on joint and separate applications and student selections, if the national application systems cannot be logged into via mobile network or home network connections.
3) Impact of power cuts on EXAM electronic exams
EXAM electronic exams cannot be taken during power cuts. If information on becoming power cuts is received beforehand, the exams can be cancelled for that period of time. The enrolled students will be informed about this by email, and they can book a new exam immediately after the exam has been cancelled.
If the power cut takes place while the student is taking the exam, the exam must be discontinued as the lights will go off and the network connection will stop working. In this case, the student closes the exam and the computer and exits the EXAM room immediately.
The interruption of an exam due to a power cut does not cause the student to lose an exam attempt. The student should contact both the examiner and the EXAM support ([email protected]) about the situation and provide them with information on the discontinued exam (name and time of the exam). After this, the examiner will allow a new exam to be taken by the student.
If necessary, the examiner can ask for help from the EXAM support.
4) IT services and telecommunications disruptions during a power outage
The following services will not be available during power cuts:
- IT and AV equipment in classrooms
- Internal communication network (including wireless Wifi/WLAN – including Eduroam)
- Information system services in the school’s own data centre
- home directories and shared online directories (“Luna”), Dynasty, PowerBI, … some cloud computing services:
- Pakki, Moodle, Peppi, Dynamics CRM, Reportronic, M2, Webropol, Wihi, etc.
- Pakki, Moodle, Peppi, Dynamics CRM, Reportronic, M2, Webropol, Wihi, etc.
- home directories and shared online directories (“Luna”), Dynasty, PowerBI, … some cloud computing services:
The following services may be available during power outages:
- Mobile network and home network connections provided by operators
- Cloud services:
- Microsoft 365 services (Outlook, Teams, Intra), Karelia website (www.karelia.fi), Karelia Sign, Personec F ESS, Rondo, Cloudia Kilpailutus, Intro, Sympa, Trail, Dreambroker, Howspace, …
- Not all functions of Karelia-Finna are in use
- These can be accessed from home or on a laptop using a mobile connection, for example. However, functionality depends on factors external to Karelia.
| In the event of a problem, please contact the Karelia Helpdesk tel. 013 260 6116 |