Open search

Who can participate in the Theatre Academy’s productions

What you need to remember when participating in a production or when hiring members to a working group. In certain cases, students from other academies and people from outside the Uniarts Helsinki community can also participate in the Theatre Academy’s productions.

|

For the most part, productions at Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy are created by the academy’s students and permanent staff. Participation in productions is part of students’ studies, and no remuneration is paid. Production teams can also have members from outside of the student community and permanent staff of the Theatre Academy. 

Students of other academies at Uniarts Helsinki 

Students of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Sibelius Academy: 

  • Students are compensated for their participation through ECTS credits for studies included in their degree. The student must agree upon their participation with their own professor or study advisor. No remuneration is paid for participation.  
  • The number of awarded credits is defined by the student’s home academy with consideration to the duties, duration and scope connected to the participation. Credits are awarded by the student’s home academy after the production is over.   
  • The student must have a discussion at their home academy about the supervision and teaching that they will receive in connection with their duties. The student’s home academy is responsible for the expenses caused by providing this supervision and teaching. 

Students of another school or higher education institution

Other schools and higher education institutions 

  • Students are compensated for their participation through ECTS credits for studies. Participation is agreed upon between the participating student and their coordinating teacher or study advisor. No remuneration is paid for participation. 
  • The number of awarded credits is defined by the student’s home institution with consideration to the duties, duration and scope connected to the participation. Credits are awarded by the student’s school after the production is over.   
  • The student has a discussion at their home institution about the supervision and teaching that they will receive in connection with their duties. The student’s home institution is responsible for the expenses caused by providing this supervision and teaching.  

Students of the Open University 

  • Students can participate in productions and earn credits by attending a course at the Open University. No remuneration is paid for participation. 
  • Students can participate in a production either based on an application process organised by the Open University or by taking part in a specifically designed and tailored study unit (a production) approved by the degree programmes responsible for the production. The study unit must be approved before the start of the planning period and/or training period of the production.    
  • As a student, you will have to pay a course fee to the Open University, unless you have a continued right to study granted by the university. Course fees cannot be paid from the production budget or other funds of Uniarts Helsinki.   
  • Supervision and teaching: the degree programmes agree upon the payment of expenses related to supervision and teaching, if the production is not part of the general course selection of the Open University.  

Volunteers

Non-professionals and those interested in the field as a hobby can participate in productions as volunteers.   

  • No ECTS credits or other compensation is awarded to production participants. 
  • Volunteering is not allowed in the person’s professional field of work. For example, a lighting designer who has completed a degree cannot volunteer in the role of a lighting designer in a production. 
  • A person who works on the basis of an artist grant can volunteer in a production if they consider that the work they do is covered by the purpose of use of the grant.  
  • Unemployed jobseekers cannot work as a volunteer in duties that fall under their own professional field. 
  • Volunteers are insured by the university’s accident insurance. 

Professionals 

In this context, the word professionals refers to anyone who works in duties of their own professional field.  

Professionals can participate in productions as paid employees. Hiring of professionals is always agreed upon with the professor and planning officer of the degree programme in good time before the start of production. 

In employment matters, the university follows the General Collective Agreement for Universities as concerns positions that are covered by it. These positions include lighting, sound and costume designers, for example. As for other positions, the university follows the applicable parts of collective agreements related to the position in question.   

Remunerations are paid in accordance with Uniarts Helsinki’s remuneration guidelines.  

Work can be compensated based on a monthly salary, a remuneration or a commission agreement. The person can also invoice the artistic work that they have done (does not apply to teaching).  

Producers, planning officers of the degree programmes or coordinators are responsible for compiling employment contracts and fee arrangements. 

Persons who take part in a supported employment scheme offered by the Employment and Economic Development Offices  

  • Work try-outs are agreed upon with the person completing the try-out and with the Theatre Academy and TE Office. The Theatre Academy is responsible for providing guidance and supervision for the person.   
  • A work try-out is possible for example for a person working in technical duties for a specific period of time.   
  • The person does not have an employment relationship with Uniarts Helsinki, and the person is not paid salary. 
  • The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment insures the person against occupational illnesses and accidents as well as damages caused to the organiser of the work try-out for the duration of the work try-out.