The IT Center will introduce the new Laptop Lender service to all campuses during April 2025. The first Laptop Lender will launch at the Kaisa House lobby at the City Centre Campus on 9 April 2025. Lenders will become available on other University campuses during April – we will release the exact schedule in this bulletin during April.
- University degree students and staff can borrow a Lenovo laptop for studying or work for four or eight hours at a time from the Laptop Lenders.
- The Laptop Lender service replaces IT stations with desktop computers, which allows flexible use of loan laptops at University campuses. The Lenovo laptops of the Laptop Lender are shared computers and they correspond to the current IT station computers in terms of their software – for example, electronic examinations can be easily completed with a loan laptop.
- The Laptop Lenders are part of the Study computer service for students, which renews IT services for students. The purpose of the change is to improve the services and ensure that service can be provided in a uniform quality across different campuses. The change will also better support the multi-purpose use of the University’s premises. See our previous bulletin on the changes to student IT services in 2025.
Starting in 2021, the IT Center piloted the Laptop Lender service first at the City Centre Campus and then at the Viikki Info Centre. The pilot Laptop Lender is still in operation in the Info Centre.
How to use Laptop Lenders
- Laptop Lenders can be used by University of Helsinki degree students and staff.
- Laptop Lenders allow you to reserve a laptop for the current or next day.
- The loan period for a laptop is 1, 4 or 8 hours.
- The borrowed laptop can be used in University buildings within the HelsinkiUni wireless network range.
- The laptop to be borrowed is a shared Windows computer to which you log in with your University username.
IT Helpdesk instructions for using Laptop Lenders are coming soon – we will update this bulletin once the instructions are available. You can also find the QR code for instructions on booking, borrowing and returning the laptop next to the Laptop Lender screen.
Laptop Lender locations and launch schedule
The Laptop Lender service will be available at the following buildings on University campuses.
- City Centre: Kaisa House lobby – available from 9 April 2025 onward
The following Laptop Lenders will become available later in the spring – we will update the launch schedule in this bulletin soon:
- City Centre: Porthania lobby
- Kumpula: Physicum lobby
- Meilahti: Meilahti Campus Library Terkko lobby
- Viikki: Forest Sciences Building lobby
If you need any support in the use of the Laptop Lender, please contact IT Helpdesk
- Chat (weekdays 9 AM–3 PM, chatbot 24/7): helsinki.fi/helpdesk
- Tel.: +358 29 415 5555 (weekdays 9 a.m.–3 p.m., local network charge/mobile call charge)
- Email: helpdesk@helsinki.fi
Welcome to borrowing laptops!