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I decided to join. Not to kill time, but to invest it in learning more about sustainability with bright minds from different parts of the world. Those two weeks were busy, lectures were composed of discussions and case studies which introduced us to new concepts, and the group brought together students from institutions as far as UC Davis.
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As a supply management student, I could have stayed within my field, but the summer school offered me a chance to explore the world beyond it. I signed up for the three-credit course Electric Mobility for Sustainable Grids, Cities and Society and got a chance to learn how we can make our cities smarter with the integration of electric vehicles.
The electric mobility course took us on a journey from Lappeenranta to Lahti to visit Kempower’s facility on LUT’s Lahti campus. During the visit, we saw firsthand how our university works hand in hand with Kempower.
"New Trends in Management" (3 ECTS credits) is another course that I attended, and it introduced me to the concept of degrowth. None of us had heard of it before. The idea is simple but radical: instead of trying to grow our way out of environmental problems, we should deliberately scale back production and consumption, measuring success by planetary health rather than economic output.
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Each day’s learning was balanced with fun social activities like sauna evenings, bar crawls, city explorations, and a chance to try authentic Finnish games including kyykkä. As with everyone else, it was also my first time playing kyykkä, and we were all instantly hooked. The game was so captivating that we played for hours in the Finnish summer with the wind rustling through the trees and cooling my sweaty forehead.
Then came a sauna evening by the lake, and everyone else was in the water in no time. I was standing on the shore when my new friend Alan asked me to join the group in the water, but I didn’t know how to swim. He didn’t make a big thing out of it – just asked me to walk into the water with him and started explaining what to do with my arms, how to breathe and when to kick. By the time the setting sun had turned the sky from blue to amber, I was already swimming.
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I started my summer with the goal to use my time productively but left with life-long memories made learning things I would not have learned otherwise, with people I would not have met anywhere else. I would definitely do it again without hesitation.
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