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How to join?

Any individual engaged in working life or studying within higher education is welcome to join an Akava affiliate union. The unions welcome students, employees, self-employed professionals and entrepreneurs. The jaseneksi.fi service will help you in finding a suitable union on the basis of your field of education or your degree.

If you are in working life, you can contact the shop steward or representative of Akava unions at your workplace and they will assist you in selecting a suitable union.


DIFF – Ingenjörerna i Finland

DIFF – Ingenjörerna i Finland is an independent, nationwide organisation for engineers and students of technology that offers labour market services and other activities in Swedish. DIFF is politically neutral. We have approx. 3,300 members of whom over 1100 are students of technology. We have regional chapters in the Åbo (Turku) region and the provinces of Nyland (Uusimaa) and Österbotten (Pohjanmaa) and a joint chapter with TFIF in Åland.

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Tehtävä ja toiminta

DIFF is an Akava affiliate, being the only Swedish-language union within Akava.
The minimum requirement for membership is a degree in engineering/technology from a university of applied sciences.

Who can join

We offer our members supervision of interests in Swedish, in collaboration with the Finnish-language union Insinööriliitto and Akava. We also provide work-related services, such as career services, legal assistance, salary statistics and a “job marketplace”. Other member benefits include liability and legal expense insurance, magazines, for example, DIFFerens and Forum, as well as benefits available through the Member+ service.

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