Kauppi campus - the home base for medicine and life sciences

Content owner

Tampere University

Phone number

University’s switchboard, +358 294 5211

Address

Arvo (main entrance) Arvo Ylpön katu 34 , 33520 Tampere

Staffed hours

Mon–Fri 7.30 am – 8 pm

More information

Kauppi campus near the Tampere University Hospital is one of the three campuses of Tampere University located in the city of Tampere. It is a centre of medicine, life sciences and health sciences research.

The Kauppi campus of Tampere University is a community of 1,500 bachelor's and master's and doctoral students. It is a workplace of 600 employees. Together with the Tampere University Hospital, the campus forms a hub of the top researchers in Finnish medicine, life sciences and health sciences.

At Kauppi campus, Tampere University operates in Arvo, Finn-Medi 1 and Finn-Medi 3 buildings. In Arvo building there are info, restaurant, library and lecture halls.

Arvo Building

Address:
Arvo Ylpön katu 34
P.O. Box 100
FI-33014 Tampere University
arvo.info [at] tuni.fi ()
+358 294 524 017

Kauppi campus and TAYS map

Finn-medi 1

Biokatu 6
FI-33520 Tampere
University’s switchboard
+358 294 5211

Kauppi campus and TAYS map

Finn-medi 3

Address:
Biokatu 10
FI-33520 Tampere
University’s switchboard
+358 294 5211

Kauppi campus and TAYS map

Restaurant Arvo

Address:
Arvo Ylpön katu 34, 33520 Tampere

arvo [at] juvenes.fi
+358 207 600 372

Restaurant Arvo is located on the leafy Kauppi campus, serving delicious lunches and tasty café products, as well as banquet and conference services.

Restaurant Arvo web page

The campus offers a broad range of venues that accommodate a variety of events and meetings. You can book, for example, a traditional lecture hall, spacious lobbies or facilities for hosting festive events.

Inquiries and reservations

Library and IT Helpdesk

In Arvo library there are materials on medicine and health sciences. From IT helpdesk located at the 1st floor of Arvo, room E106, you'll get assistance for any ICT troubles.

Use our library

Contact IT services

How to reach Tampere and Kauppi campus

Both domestic and international travel connections to Tampere are excellent. Tampere’s public transportation takes you where ever you want go within the city. There is some ten minutes' walk from the Tampere main railway station to our campus.

Arrive by air, by land and even by water!

By train - search timetables and buy train tickets

By bus

By local bus - transport Nysse journey planner

Map of Kauppi campus

Reach buildings of Kauppi campus

Campus accessibility

Parking is chargeable

Parking for visitors at the Kauppi campus and TAYS area is chargeable. Parking spaces intended for handicapped people can be found near the entrances. Only those holding a handicapped person’s parking permit may use these spaces. A permit granted in the EU Member States is valid in all EU Member States. The permit is valid for the holder and is not restricted to a specific vehicle.

See Tays Central Hospital area parking map (in Finnish)

Finding the entrance

The main entrance of Arvo is found on the eastern side of the building. fIf you are coming from the direction of Tampere University Hospital, the main entrance is located behind the Arvo building. If you are coming along Arvo Ylpön katu, the main entrance is on the right side of the building.

Near the main entrance you will find the info desk and the house managers. There are also three other entrances to the building, but there are neither an info desk nor house managers near them.

Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Sciences offer guests wireless internet access across their campuses. As these networks are not available to all, users need to log in either with their home institution’s username and password, if their home institution has joined the roaming service, or through a temporary guest account. At Hervanta campus you can use these wireless networks:

Eduroam: international roaming service. Log in with your home institution’s username and password.
Roam.fi: Finnish wireless access service. Log in with your home institution’s username and password.
Hervanta campus: TUT network. Please, request password from your visit's host or info desks.

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Kauppi campus - the home base for medicine and life sciences