Exchange agreements and funding from the International Exchange Services and Education Cooperation unit

You can apply for funding for international exchange, which lasts up to one year from the International Exchange Services and Education Cooperation unit.

Your chances of receiving funding from the International Exchange Services and Education Cooperation unit depend on your employment status at the University of Helsinki. Tax authorities do not allow an institution to pay a salary and a scholarship to the same person for the same time period. 

If you are working on your doctoral dissertation under an employment contract with the University of Helsinki, you can apply for

• Erasmus+ teacher exchange (business trip of up to one week)
• guidance about teacher exchange: staffexchange@helsinki.fi

If you are not employed by the University of Helsinki, you can apply for

• Erasmus+ traineeships abroad, duration 5-30 days or 2-6 months
• short course scholarships for Erasmus+ blended intensive programme participants and freemover short courses
• student exchange of 2-12 months with a grant from the International Exchange Services and Education Cooperation unit. You can find more information via the links below:
  • Erasmus+ exchange destinations
  • funding
  • application instructions and application periods
  • language requirements
  • instructions for those chosen for student exchange
• freemover scholarships, duration 2-12 months
• guidance: studentexchange@helsinki.fi, and on the page International exchange services and education cooperation

Most of the international visits of doctoral researchers take place with other funding mechanisms than funding from the International Exchange Services and Education Cooperation unit, i.e. for example, travel grants from the doctoral school or with funding from scholarship foundations.