- Teknologföreningen
Teknologföreningen is the only nation, a kind of Finnish student corporation, at the
Helsinki University of Technology . The only other University in Finland hosting corporations is theUniversity of Helsinki .Teknologföreningen was founded in
1872 , making it older than the University'sstudent union . Teknologföreningen's primary purpose is to unite students interested in speaking the Swedish language and to guarantee equal rights to Swedish-speaking students at the bilingual HUT.Teknologföreningen has its own peculiar building named "Urdsgjallar" - a building that resembles the shape of a
drinking horn seen from an aerial perspective, that according to legend has no two perpendicular walls. The name of the building derives fromGjallarhorn ofnorse mythology . The building hosts a lunch restaurant for students as well as rooms intended for work and recreational purpouses. The building also hosts a semicircular sauna called "Pi" with a radius of 3.14 meters.
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