The Rotary Club of Vaasa

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2015 – 2016

 

Meeting Time: Tuesday at 11:45 a.m.
Meeting Place: Svenska Klubben
Address: Rantakatu 4 – Strandgatan 4, 65100 Vaasa

 

Program under construction, check your weekly e-mail!

 

Autumn 2015

Spring 2016


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

07.07.

 No meeting

05.01.

 No meeting, Twelfth Day Eve

14.07.

 No meeting

12.01.

 

21.07.

 No meeting

19.01.

 

28.07.

 No meeting

26.01.

 

04.08.

 No meeting

02.02.

 

11.08.

 No meeting

09.02.

 

18.08.

 Teemu Paavola: President’s introduction for the

 new Rotary year

16.02.

 

25.08.

 

23.02.

 

01.09.

 

01.03.

 

08.09.

 

08.03.

 

15.09.

 

15.03.

 

22.09.

 

22.03.

 

29.09.

 

29.03.

 

06.10.

 

05.04.

 

13.10.

 

12.04.

 

20.10.

 

19.04.

 

27.10.

 

26.04.

 

03.11.

 

03.05.

 

10.11.

 

10.05.

 

17.11.

 

17.05.

 

24.11.

 

24.05.

 

01.12.

 

31.05.

 

08.12.

 

07.06.

 

15.12.

 

14.06.

 

22.12.

 Henry Byskata: An hour of devotion for

 Christmas

21.06.

 

29.12.

 No meeting

28.06

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2014 – 2015

 

Meeting Time: Tuesday at 11:45 a.m.
Meeting Place: Radisson Blue Royal Hotel
Address: Hovioikeudenpuistikko 18 – Hovrättsesplanaden 18, 65100 Vaasa

 

 

Autumn 2014

Spring 2015


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

01.07.

 No meeting

06.01.

 No meeting, Twelfth Day

08.07.

 No meeting

13.01.

 Katarina Heikius (Guest Mikaela Pörn: Class

 tandem)

15.07.

 No meeting

20.01.

 Marko Valli (Guest Toni Viljanmaa: Newspaper

 Pohjalainen today)

22.07.

 No meeting

27.01.

 Juha Häkkinen: Competitiveness of Finnish industry

 (slides)

29.07.

 No meeting

03.02.

 Ulla-Maj Jern: The Wireless Money

05.08.

 No meeting

10.02.

 Hannu Halmesmäki (Guest Jani Peräsarka: Private

 investors and investments in premises among public

 service production)

12.08.

 No meeting

17.02.

 Tom Westermark (Guest Mikael Snellman: Vaasa

 Station)

19.08.

 No meeting

22.02.

 Pekka Mäkinen (Guest Aki Puska: Car trade

 yesterday, today and tomorrow)

26.08.

 Starting the new Rotary year, President’s

 introduction

03.03.

 Pekka Haapanen (Guest Mauritz Knuts:

 Development and cooperation with Swedish in

 energy efficient contruction

02.09.

 General discussion about Rotary

10.03.

 Martti Laaksonen: New modes in consuming

09.09.

 Simo Vuorenlinna: A review of investment market

17.03.

 Guest Teuvo Rodén: Membership development

16.09.

 Birgitta Aurén: Building a futures library

24.03.

 Stig Nygård: Parliamentary election

23.09.

 No discourse, general discussion about Rotary

31.03.

 Guest Tuomo Tuuri: Rotary Foundation

30.09.

 Governor’s visit

07.04.

 Riitta Pääjärvi-Myllyaho: School relay carnival

 is progressing                                

07.10.

 Pasi Tuominen: Internet of Things

14.04.

  Håkan Anttila

14.10.

 Tapio Mäki: Advocacy in Finland (meeting rooms:

 Cancun & Cozumel)

21.04.

 Göran Pellfolk (Guest Mikael Snellman:

 Constructing in society

21.10.

 Official annual meeting

28.04.

 Jari Oja (Guest Esa Siltaloppi: Pictorial productions

 all over the world)

28.10.

 Juha Kaksonen (Guest Kaj Sundén: Finvacon, a

 social enterprise)

05.05.

 Arja Rantanen: Club’s summer exchange student

 Maija Laatu (going to USA) and whole year

 exchange student Alina Vuohelainen (South Korea)

 present their plans for the exchange periods.

04.11.

 Marjatta Larimo (Guest Marko Ylimäki: University

 of Vaasa today – an economic point of view)

12.05.

 Heikki Purovirta: Insurance statistics

11.11.

 Olli Alhoniemi: Westenergy and the role of waste

 incineration in Finland and in Europe

19.05.

 Guest Tommi Kaunisto: Investment in fonds

18.11.

 Heikki Kouhi: Plans for everyman’s golf course in

 Vaasa

26.05.

 Reijo Malkamäki

25.11.

 Tom Eriksson (Guest Niko Sirola: New architecture

 in Vaasa and in Helsinki)

02.06.

 Hannu Kuokkanen

02.12.

 Hans Bertell

09.06.

 No meeting

09.12.

 Election meeting

16.06.

 No regular meeting. Meeting for presidents’ chain

 exchange together with the other clubs in Vaasa and

 Mustasaari, time and place to be announced later.

16.12.

 Henry Byskata: An hour of devotion for

 Christmas

23.06.

 No meeting

23.12.

 No meeting

30.06

 No meeting

30.12.

 No meeting

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2013 – 2014

 

 

Autumn 2013

Spring 2014


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

02.07.

 No meeting

07.01.

 No meeting

09.07.

 No meeting

14.01.

 Marko Valli: Media in change

16.07.

 No meeting

21.01.

 Guest speaker Marko Honko: GSE group in Brasil

23.07.

 No meeting

28.01.

 Juha Häkkinen: Competitiveness of Vaasa Region

30.07.

 No meeting

04.02.

 Ulla-Maj Jern (Guest Olav Jern: Ostrobothnia Region

 today)

06.08.

 No meeting

11.02.

 Assistant governor Teuvo Rodén: Membership care

 taking

13.08.

 No meeting

18.02.

 Hannu Halmesmäki (Guest Jukka Auranen: ABB

 2013; result and prospects)

20.08.

 Starting the new Rotary year, President’s

 introduction

25.02.

 Discussion about women’s role in Rotary;

 moderators Maj-Britt Höglund and Håkan Anttila

27.08.

 Harry Swanljung: AG’s information concerning the

 objectives and challenges of the District for the

 new Rotary year.

04.03.

 Guest Roland Leimbacher (Einsiedeln, Switzerland):

 Information about Einsiedeln and Einsiedeln Rotary

 Club

03.09.

 Brittany Dorland, Club’s exchange student

11.03.

 Martti Laaksonen: World as a ramping field of

 cultures

10.09.

 Reijo Malkamäki (guest Eevi-Kaisa Yrjölä:

 residential safety of ageing people)

18.03.

 Pekka Haapanen (Guest Anna Måtts: Infrastructure

 over border)

17.09.

 Birgitta Aurén (guest Jari Karjalainen: contribution

 of the City of Vaasa in culture, slides)

25.03.

 Teijo Seppelin: Incorporation of Vaasa Port

24.09.

 Governor’s visit

01.04.

 Guest Lasse Pohjala: VASEK’s internationalization

 services, especially case Norway

01.10.

 Katarina Heikius (guest Margareta Wihersaari: Åbo

 Akademi’s education in energy technology in

 Vaasa)

08.04.

 Jari Oja (Guest Harri Suokko: ITC Company Anvia)

08.10.

 Pasi Tuominen: Recruiting in Wapice

15.04.

 Göran Pellfolk: Renovation of apartment building

15.10.

 Official annual meeting, agenda for the meeting

22.04.

 Heikki Purovirta (Guest Seija Purovirta: Alko –

 responsible and willing to help)

22.10.

 Hannu Kuokkanen (Guest Esko Korpi: Housing

 development in the Theatre quarter)

29.04.

 Håkan Nordman: Ostrobothnian relay carnival, the

 second year

29.10.

 Juha Kaksonen (Guest Kaj Sunden: Labour bank)

06.05.

 Arja Rantanen (Guest Barbro Nedermo: What do I

 have to offer for my summer guests in Vaasa region?

 http://events.osterbotten.fi/events/)

05.11.

 Teemu Paavola: Experiences in Management of

 change and its IT applications.

13.05.

 Jukka Rautakorpi (Guest Riku Asukas: VPS 90 years:

 today and tomorrow)

12.11.

 Discussion about the Port of Vaasa

20.05.

 Maj-Britt Höglund: Moodle, supporting tool for

 university education

19.11.

 Håkan Nordman: Experiences from the time as a

 member of the Parliament

27.05.

 Simo Vuorenlinna: OP-Pohjola, Vaasa Co-operative

 Bank and an overwiev on investment market

26.11.

 Hans Bertell (Guest Jani Peräsarka: WasaGroup

 Fund, a new way to invest in real estates)

03.06.

 Juha-Pekka Lehmus (Guest Sami Piilikangas: Skill

 training and the lion path for young ice hockey

 players)

03.12.

 Pekka Mäkinen (Guest Leena Ollila: Co-operation of

 municipalities and its future)

10.06.

 No regular meeting (meeting for chain exchange

 together with the other clubs in Vaasa and

 Mustasaari takes place on Thursday 12.6. at Svenska

 Klubben at 7.00  p.m.)

10.12.

 Election meeting

17.06.

 Club’s Exchange student Brittany Dorland: My year

 in Finland

17.12.

 Henry Byskata: An hour of devotion for

 Christmas

24.06.

 No meeting

24.12.

 No meeting, Christmas Eve

 

 

31.12.

 No meeting, New Year’s Eve

 

 

 

 

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2012 – 2013

 

Autumn 2012

Spring 2013


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

03.07.

 No meeting

01.01.

 No meeting, New Year’s Day

 

10.07.

 

No meeting

08.01.

 Hannu Halmesmäki (Guest Mauri Blomberg:

 Vaasa gasification plant project – from the use of

 coal towards domestic bio fuel).

17.07.

 No meeting

15.01.

 Virpi Viitala (Guest: Miia Äkkinen: Prospects of

 social media in entrepreneurship and business)

24.07.

 No meeting

22.01.

 Jari Oja: Technical documentation

31.07.

 No meeting

29.01.

 Juha Häkkinen: Chamber of Commerce and  the

 region’s ability to compete

 Meeting at Central´s Cocktail Lounge (on the

 opposite side of the street)

07.08.

 No meeting

05.02.

 Ulla- Maj Jern (Guest Merja Tyynelä: Vaasa City

 Orchestra)

14.08.

 No meeting

12.02.

 Sannasirkku Autio: National Being Involved in

 Finland Education programme.

21.08.

 AG Harry Swanljung: Assistant Governor’s role

 and tasks

19.02.

 Jorma Koivusipilä (Guest  Jorma Mykkänen:

 ABB Motors and its energy efficient motors) 

28.08.

 DG Håkan Anttila: Governor’s visit

26.02.

 Guest Ulla Mäki-Lohiluoma: From the perspective

 of Vaasa Parks

04.09.

 Håkan Nordman: Ostrobothnian relay carnival

05.03.

 Hannu Kuokkanen (Guest Mika Lindén: Human

 trafficking and the crime victim duty)

11.09.

 Raine Vasanoja: VASEK’s Investment marketing

 and establishing service

12.03.

 Martti Laaksonen (Guest Ari Huntus: Creativeness

 and economy)

18.09.

 Guest Mikko Komi (Finavia): Vaasa Airport

19.03.

 Johan Lidsle

25.09.

 Katarina Heikius (Guest Kaj Björkqvist: PEACE

 master programme)

26.03.

 Club visit to Westenergy

02.10.

 Hellevi Lampimäki: Adult education in the

 University of Vaasa

 At 6 pm (Nordea): Training programme for new

 Club members

02.04.

 Stig Nygård (Guest Mikael Appel: Police in Internet)

09.10.

 Erkki Antila: Faculty of Technology of the

 University of Vaasa; towards the triple helix model

09.04.

 Göran Pellfolk: Grey economy in building trade

16.10.

 Official annual meeting; agenda for the meeting

16.04.

 GSE Group from Brasil visiting the Club

23.10.

 Jukka Vainio

23.04.

 Tom Eriksson (Guest Päivi Korkealaakso: Planning

 and cityscape in Vaasa)

30.10.

 Marjatta Larimo (Guest Matti Jakobsson:

 University of Vaasa and the Society)

30.04.

 Riitta Pääjärvi-Myllyaho: Towads the First of May

06.11.

 Guest Tommi Virkama: Startia, Vaasa Region

 Enterprise Agency

07.05.

 Arja Rantanen (Guest Marko Laukas: Jupiter

 Foundation)

13.11.

 Birgitta Aurén (Guests Terhi Piikkilä and Lena

 Sågfors: Bedtime stories home – cooperation

 between the City library and prison)

14.05.

 Jukka Rautakorpi: Present state of football in Vaasa

 and the circumstance programme of the Finnish

 Football Federation

20.11.

 Guest Susanna Kultalahti: GSE Group’s visit to

 Kansas, USA

21.05.

 PDG Olavi Wetterstrand’s information about RI’s

 plans for new legislation

27.11.

 Hans Bertell: Experiences about tax inspections

28.05.

 Päivi Kaarniemi: Youth exchange programmes.

 Clubs next years’ outgoing exchange student Maria

 Varonen visits the Club.

04.12.

 Tom Eriksson (Guest Päivi Korkealaakso: Topical

  issues in town planning)

04.06.

 Anne Volama (Guest Susanna Slotte-Kock: Current

 issues in the City’s industrial and commercial

 activity)

11.12.

 Election meeting, agenda for the meeting

11.06.

 No regular meeting. Meeting for presidents’ chain

 exchange together with the other clubs in Vaasa and

 Mustasaari takes place in restaurant Seglis at 6.30

 p.m. See the programme.

18.12.

 Henry Byskata: An hour of devotion for

 Christmas

18.06.

 No discourse

25.12.

 No meeting, Christmas Day

25.06.

 No meeting

 

 

 

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2011 – 2012

 

Autumn 2011

Spring 2012


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

05.07.

 No meeting

03.01.

 No meeting

12.07.

 No meeting

10.01.

 Pasi Tuominen: Wapice Remote Management

 (WRM)

19.07.

 No meeting

17.01.

 Antti Varheenmaa: Nordea Coastal Ostrobothnia

26.07.

 No meeting

24.01.

 Tom Westermark (Guest Joakim Träskelin: Botnia

 Games)

02.08.

 No meeting

31.01.

 Pekka Haapanen: Vaasa Region’s imago

 campaign

09.08.

 No meeting

07.02.

 Anne Volama (Guest Hilkka Vuorensivu: UN

 Women)

16.08.

 President’s information for the new Rotary year

14.02.

 Discussion about planned changes in Rotary district

 organisation

23.08.

 Tero Mäki: Fire safety info

21.02.

 Håkan Anttila: Westenergy’s waste-to-energy-plant

30.08.

 Cindy Reyes, Club’s exchange student from the

 USA

28.02.

 Hans Bertell: Corporate acquisitions (in Finnish:

 Yrityskaupoista)

06.09.

 Guest Veli-Pekka Nurmi, Chief of the Accident

 Investigation Board of Finland: Investigation of

 serious accidents in Finland

06.03.

 Henry Byskata: The role of Church in the

 Kauhajoki School shooting tragedy

13.09.

 Stig Nygård (Guest photographer Gunnar

 Bäckman: “Do you remember your City – Does

 anyone?”)

13.03.

 Tom Eriksson (Guest Heikki Aitoaho: Vaasa

 Equestrian Centre)

20.09.

 Jari Oja (Guest Kaj Rönlund: There Corporation)

20.03.

 Hannu Halmesmäki

27.09.

 Göran Pellfolk: Organising a project for rebuilding

 a summer house

27.03.

 GSE Group Team Kansas D5710 visiting our Club,

 read the team’s blog.

04.10.

 Heikki Purovirta (Guest Ari Ahonen, Varma

 Mutual Pension Insurance Company: How does

 the employment pension accumulate?)

03.04.

 Juha Häkkinen: Industry and commerce promotion

 by the Ostrobothnia Chamber of Commerce

11.10.

 Official annual meeting

10.04.

 Ulrica Karp: Story SÖFUK

18.10.

 Rotary seminar, University of Vaasa. Seminar in

 press: art1, art2

17.04.

 Ulla-Maj Jern: “I wonder what did she do with our

 money far away in Tanzania”

25.10.

 Johan Lidsle

24.04.

 Juha Kaksonen: Enterprise called Finvacon Oy

01.11.

 Jukka Rautakorpi (Guest Eero Karhumäki,

 Vaasan Palloseura)

01.05.

 No meeting (the first of May)

08.11.

 Rotary information, e.g. about conducting Rotary

 e-business

08.05.

 Juha Knuuttila

15.11.

 Päivi Sairo (Guest Editor-in-chief Kalle Heiskanen,

 newspaper Pohjalainen)

15.05.

 Cindy Reyes, Club’s exchange student from the

 USA

22.11.

 District Governor’s visit

22.05.

 Jorma Koivusipilä (Guest Usko Uusipaikka: Our

 extraordinary brains)

29.11.

 Harry Swanljung: Immigrant children’s study path

 in Vaasa

29.05.

 Riitta Pääjärvi-Myllyaho: Get children to train

 themselves physically; creating a new primary

 school relay carnival program

06.12.

 No meeting (Independence Day)

05.06.

 Martti Laaksonen

13.12.

 Election meeting

12.06.

 No meeting (meeting for chain exchange together

 with the other clubs in Vaasa and Mustasaari

 during the week 24)

20.12.

 Club President’s Christmas greetings

19.06.

 No discourse

27.12.

 No meeting

26.06.

 No meeting

 

 

 

 

Meeting Calendar for the Rotary Year 2010 – 2011

 

Autumn 2010

Spring 2011


 Date

 

 Speaker / Programme

 Date

 Speaker / Programme

06.07.

 No meeting

04.01.

 No meeting

13.07.

 No meeting

11.01.

 Martti Laaksonen: Universities in turbulence; How

 can the changes be seen in the University of Vaasa?

20.07.

 No meeting

18.01.

 Marjatta Larimo (Guest Jouko Havunen: Fund-

 raising of the University of Vaasa)

27.07.

 No meeting

25.01.

 Johan Lidsle: Focus areas in the economy of the

 City of Vaasa during 2011-2013

03.08.

 No meeting

01.02.

 Anne Volama (Guest Tauno Kekäle: Vaasa Uni-

 versity of Applied Sciences today)

10.08.

 No discourse

08.02.

 Stig Nygård (Guest Claus Stolpe: The most stable

 electoral district in Finland)

17.08.

 President’s information about forthcoming club

 activities

15.02.

 Tero Mäki: The Ostrobothnian Rescue service

 today

24.08.

 Tom Westermark: Botnia Print

22.02.

 Gretel Ristiluoma (Guest Robert Olander:

 EnergyVaasa, the most outstanding Nordic center

 in energy cluster)

31.08.

 Ivy Ferguson, Club’s exchange student from USA

01.03.

 Göran Pellfolk: The new law for housing companies

07.09.

 Julia Nieminen, Club’s own exchange student

08.03.

 Ilkka Virtanen: Visiting Vaasa War Veteran

 Museum and its special exhibition on medals of

 honour

14.09.

 Håkan Anttila (Guest Karl-Rune Sundelin: Red

 Cross in Ostrobothnia)

15.03.

 Jukka Rautakorpi: Football in Vaasa and Vaasa

 District; discourse material in Att 1, Att 2, Att 3

21.09.

 Erkki Antila: Sustainable energy production and

 distribution

22.03.

 Jari Oja (Guest Jarno Saaranen: The wind power

 plant of Mervento)

28.09.

 Juha Häkkinen: Competitiveness of the Vaasa

 region

29.03.

 Päivi Sairo (Guest Piia-Pauliina Majamäki: Web

 and mobile business in Ilkka-Yhtymä and new

 channels for a newspaper)

05.10.

 District Governor’s visit

05.04.

 Pekka Haapanen (Guest Sari Saarikoski: Regional

 service voucher)

12.10.

 Juhana Herttua (Guest Tapio Mesikämmen:

 Enoteca Fennia and Italian wines)

12.04.

 Riitta Pääjärvi-Myllyaho: Physical exercise and the

 youth

19.10.

 Official annual meeting

19.04.

 Pasi Tuominen: Wapice remote management

26.10.

 Tuomo Tuuri: Rotary Foundation seminar

26.04.

 Antti Varhenmaa: Assets and liabilities of Finnish

 households

02.11.

 Kalevi Häyry: Nautor’s Swan

03.05.

 Ivy Ferguson, Club’s exchange student from USA

09.11.

 Ulla-Maj Jern (Guest Mika Jylhä)

10.05.

 Virpi Viitala (Guest Ari Nortamo: Drain renovation

 without pulling down the constructions)

16.11.

 Markus Jussila (Guest Maija Aarnio, Coastal

 Ostrobothnian Entrepreneurs: Company patronage

 in the Vaasa Region)

17.05.

 Oliver Vasanoja, Club’s outgoing exchange

 student for the coming Rotary year

23.11.

 Presentation of and discussion about the results of

 the membership poll

24.05.

 Tapio Ivakko: Visiting the private general practice

 Promedi (Kiillekuja 1, Kivihaka)

30.11.

 Juha Knuuttila: Debt crisis of the EU member

 states

31.05.

 Gunilla Lång-Kivilinna (Guest Tuulia Taanila:

 Woodwork and sustainable development)

03.12.

 75-years Anniversary of the Club

07.06.

 Hans Bertel (Guest Sari Hakapää: Reversed value

 added tax in building services)

07.12.

 Election meeting

14.06.

 Jorma Koivusipilä (Guest Jukka Hakala: Fair in

 Ostrobothnia)

14.12.

 Tom Eriksson (Guest Björn Schauman: Wasa

 Race Park project)

15.06.

at 6.30 p.m.

 Meeting for chain exchange (together with the other

 clubs in Vaasa and Mustasaari)

21.12.

 Eino Perälä

21.06.

 No discourse

28.12.

 No meeting

28.06.

 No meeting