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Union membership will ensure you support and security throughout your career. As a member of an Akava affiliate union, you have access to guidance and assistance, for example, when seeking a job or making an employment contract. We offer you security in different phases of life – you don’t need to master everything yourself.

The union serves as a professional and working life community for you. It promotes the interests of its members at workplaces, on the labour market and in society at large. It also provides you with individual services and useful information.

Our service is intended for those who actively seek information about trade unions. The service enables you to search for a suitable Akava union by your field of education or degree. If you cannot find a suitable union by using the search function, don’t hesitate to contact us!


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Akava is comprised of 36 affiliate unions representing individuals with higher education. There are two ways of searching information: by field of education or by degree.


The Union of Professional Engineers in Finland

Union of Professional Engineers in Finland safeguards its members’ interests. It has 70,000 members in its 30 regional and 6 national membership organizations.

The union's members are engineers, engineering students as well as other experts in the engineering and the information sector. Union of Professional Engineers in Finland safeguards its members’ interests on the labour market and influences the labour market.

Union of Professional Engineers in Finland offers its members expert services related to working life, e.g. advice on employment and pay issues, support for career planning and extensive membership benefits.

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Who can join

Engineers, other professionals in the technical branch as well as employees in the information sector are eligible to join affiliates of Union of Professional Engineers in Finland.

Student membership is possible since the Finnish Union of Engineering Students IOL, which protects the interests of engineering students and students in other technical fields at universities of applied sciences. IOL belongs to Union of Professional Engineers in Finland.

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