Call for applications: Apply for student exchange for the academic year 2025–2026
Application period for student exchange begins on Mon, February 3rd 2025 and ends on Mon, February 17th 2025 (at 3 PM)
Available exchange destinations:
- For the academic year 2025–2026, autumn semester 2025 or spring semester 2026: main call for applications to Europe and Nordic countries
- The supplementary call for applications for remaining exchange opportunities outside Europe: Asia, Australia, North America and Latin America. These destinations are open for spring 2026. Some of the destinations outside Europe concern the calendar year 2026.
- Summer courses 2025
- There will be updates to the list of available destinations until January 20th, with possible final updates until February 3rd.
- Students from all faculties are welcome to apply.
- Applicants are required to have completed at least 30 ECTS credits of university studies prior to the application deadline.
- Most of the exchange placements are open for undergraduate or graduate students. There are also a few placements for PhD students.
- Language skills in the host country’s language are required for some of the universities, but there are possibilities to study in English as well. See the Instructions for proving your language skills for more information.
- Within Europe, exchanges are based on agreements signed on unit level, and the student is expected to study the field of the agreement. Students of the study program/major students of each agreement take precedence in the selection. Placements can also be offered with discretion to students of other fields.
- There are also many university-wide options. Read more from the “Erasmus University-wide" section on the Europe and Nordic countries page.
- For destinations in the Nordics, please read more on the Europe and Nordic countries page.
- Outside Europe there are university-level exchange agreements (these are open to students of all faculties) and unit-level agreements (these are only open to students of the unit/study program in question).
- Host universities have prerequisites for students applying to exchange, for example Faculties of Law and Medicine do not accept applicants from other Faculties.
- NOTE! The Mobility Online system is offline due to maintenance on Tuesday, February 11th between 10-12 AM.
- The last day to supplement your application is the 24th of February.
You can apply to a maximum number of 4 universities for a semester or for an academic year.
In the call for summer courses, you can apply to a maximum of three destinations - this does not affect the amount of exchange destinations you can apply to for a longer period.
If you are not chosen to one of your choices of exchange destinations, you can still be offered the possibility to be selected for an exchange with an offer for available places left over, without having to send a separate application.
The application is done in the Mobility Online system. Check the instructions of the application process and the required attachments here. The attachments must be uploaded to the Mobility Online system by the deadline.
The decisions of placements will be sent to applicants via email by the end of March. Note! If you are offered a place, you must accept it on Mobility Online within 7 days of receiving the offer.
More information
Contact International exchange services.
Would you like to go on exchange? events
You can hear more about exchange opportunities at our Would you like to go on exchange? event (the one with English slides, spoken in Finnish with the possibility to ask questions in English, is held on the 22nd of January)
You are also welcome to visit our exchange info fairs on campus! They will be held in the lobby of Kaisa Library on the Central Campus on 21.1. from 12 to 3 pm, in the lobby of Infotalo in Viikki on 16.1. from 11 am to 2 pm, and in the lobby of Physicum in Kumpula on 22.1. from 11 am to 1 pm.
Application clinics
Come work on your Mobility Online application with the assistance of International Exchange Services specialists. You can ask about questions related to the application at the same time. When you come to the clinic, you should already know which exchange destinations you are applying to. Application clinics (11th and 13th of February)