It all began when Riku Aho was elected as an international responsible of Tampere University of Technology (TUT) board. The co-operation between Technical Universities was quite significant at that time and so Riku got to know international responsible Anne Nummila and international secretary Laura Heikkuri from Helsinki University of Technology. After that it wasn't long that Riku got invited to participate in a Workshop organized by LBG Helsinki in January of 1994. It was quite cold outside, at least minus 20 degrees centigrade but the atmosphere inside was warm. The same year Riku got invited to GA in Turin and there Tampere became a baby member of BEST and Helsinki agreed to be the Nurse for just born LBG Tampere. After the GA Riku returned to Tampere and told what had happened and that the LBG Tampere would have to be organized.

Working as an LBG

In the beginning it was a small group consisting of a few people. LBG Tampere participated also the GA 1994 in Timisoara and organized the first summer course on it?s own in August of 1995. The Course was about Digital Media. LBG Tampere became a full member in that same year in PM that was held in Trondheim. The weather wasn't the most pleasant in PM but Tampere had a lot to celebrate and a little rain wasn't going to stop that. After that LBG Tampere has arranged summer courses when it could and at the same time tried to maintain high academic level for courses. LBG Tampere has also arranged internal BEST events such as TrainShops, Cultural Exchanges and Regional Meetings. In recent years LBG Tampere has tried to offer more events to TUT students as well. The Snow Football tournament is one of these and it has been arranged in the past three years.

Picture from Summer Course arranged in 2007

The Snow Football Tournament in 2007

Character of BEST Tampere

We are quite an active group but not a very large one.(Maybe about 20 active members) In addition to the previous we are also very proud members of BEST Nordic region also know as the Nordic Kingdom.:-|