Stakeholder interaction

Our key stakeholders are customers, owners, personnel, decision-makers, partners and funding providers.

Customers

Our customers are Finnish universities outside the Greater Helsinki region, higher education institutes, businesses and public corporations operating on our campuses, and the users of their premises. Universities and higher education institutes are increasing their spatial efficiency, which has freed up premises for non-university users. This has led to an expansion of our customer base. This trend will continue in the coming years.

Customer relationship management is a strategically important aspect of SYK’s operations. It is aimed at ensuring that we correctly understand the campus and spatial needs of each customer, and that the customers have access to a campus, premises and services that meet their needs.

Responsibility to the customer particularly concerns always maintaining the premises in an appropriate condition, and developing the premises in response to our customers’ changing needs. We support the success of our customers by developing our properties into attractive campuses.

We survey our customers’ satisfaction with our operations annually. In the customer survey conducted in late 2017, the respondents awarded the company the average score of 3.7 on a scale of 1–5. Some 20 per cent of the respondents indicated that SYK’s operations have improved over the past six months, while 98 per cent consider the company’s role in campus development to be very important or quite important.

Customer satisfaction survey result release for 2017

Owners

SYK is owned by the ten Finnish universities outside the Greater Helsinki region (University of Eastern Finland, University of Jyväskylä, University of Oulu, University of Lapland, University of Tampere, University of Turku, University of Vaasa, Åbo Akademi University, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology) and the Finnish government, represented by Senate Properties Ltd.

The owners exercise control over the company at General Meetings and elect the members of the Board of Directors. The owners are influential organisations in their respective regions, giving University Properties of Finland Ltd significant regional influence. In addition to being the company’s owners, the universities are its customers, which means that communication between the company and the universities is very active.

We survey customer satisfaction annually.

Communication with stakeholders

We engaged in close cooperation with partners, influencers and decision-makers in 2017. At the Campuses of the Century seminar, we discussed topics such as protecting cultural heritage sites and preserving the vitality of campus areas with representatives of cities, the National Board of Antiquities and local museums.

Active dialogue with partners and decision-makers is part of our day-to-day operations.

Our communication channels include our website and social media accounts as well as one-on-one meetings and local media conferences. We also aim to engage in close cooperation in the area of communication with our partners and the media.

In early 2018, we will conduct stakeholder interviews among our closest stakeholders to survey their satisfaction with our operations and their wishes with regard to our responsibility.

Stakeholder map

 

  • Universities
  • Universities of applied sciences
  • Businesses
  • Service companies
  • Schools and day-care centres
  • The Finnish government, represented by Senate Properties
  • Construction and property maintenance companies
  • Other stakeholders in the construction and property sector
  • Other service providers
  • International networks
  • Funding providers
  • Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of the Environment
  • European Union
  • Members of Parliament
  • Museum authorities
  • Municipal building control authorities