Sports and Leisure Activities

The Academic Sports of Jyväskylä offers sports services to higher education students and staff in the Jyväskylä region. uMove offers group fitness, ball games, gym services, courses and events! Choose the ones you like the best and join the fun!

Cuckoo is a wellness app featuring more than 400 micro-break exercise videos and mindfulness exercises designed by a physiotherapist to promote wellbeing.

Cuckoo has been researched to help change usage and make active micro-breaks a wellness-enhancing routine during the study day. Active use of Cuckoo:

• Has a positive effect on social, mental and physical coping
• Reduces musculoskeletal pain
• Reduces sick leaves by 2 days / person / year
• Reduces sitting and standing 30 min / day
• Enhances a sense of community

Note! Cuckoo is also available to students in Open Studies and Professional Teacher Education students.