Services for integration

The Vantaa Skills Centre provides advice and guidance to immigrants living in Vantaa. You can get help, for example, in identifying your skills. In addition, the Vantaa Skills Centre will help you with job search and improving your skills and education. 

Read more here.

Have you just moved to Finland? Do you want to know more about your new hometown? Do you need information about Vantaa's services in your own language? The Neuvova Vantaa project’s multilingual guidance will help you!

The service languages of the multilingual guidance are

• Finnish,
• English,
• Estonian,
• Russian,
• Somali,
• Dari,
• Farsi, and
• Arabic.

You can find more information on the Neuvova Vantaa project here.

You can study Finnish in many different places in Vantaa and elsewhere in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. Some of the courses are free and some have a course fee.

You can search for Finnish language courses in the Finnishcourses.fi service. Courses are held in several different cities and also online. You can find the service here. 

You can also find information about studying Finnish on the Vantaa Adult Education Centre website. You can find the page here.

Yle Kielikoulu – Yle Språkskolan  is a service enabling you to study Finnish or Swedish by watching Yle’s media content in an application or a browser. Kielikoulu is aimed at immigrants and other Finnish and Swedish language learners. You can find it here.

Involving parents in school and working life is a project in Vantaa aimed at immigrant parents living in Vantaa.

The parents participating in the project study Finnish language and mathematics. They also learn about Finnish society and the school system. The aim is for the parents to get a foothold in studies and working life. 

You can read more about the project (in Finnish) here. You can also find more information (in Finnish) on Facebook and Instagram.

The City of Vantaa offers a wide range of services for immigrants.

Read more about the services and support here. 

 

Rehabilitative work is a service intended for Vantaa residents who have been unemployed for a long time.The rehabilitative work activities are organised by the Wellbeing Services County of Vantaa and Kerava.

Read more about rehabilitative work activities (in Finnish) here.

You can register as an unemployed jobseeker in person at the TE Office. You will need to bring your passport and residence permit. If you are an EU citizen, bring your EU citizen’s registration certificate. You can find the Vantaa TE Office’s contact information here (available in Finnish and Swedish).

If you have online banking credentials, you can register as a jobseeker on the TE Office’s website in the E-services (available in Finnish and Swedish).

The ‘Help in job search’ page contains information that jobseekers should know. You can find the page here.

If you want to ask questions about finding employment, you can contact employment services. 

Employment services provide guidance on job search, studies and registering for unemployment through guidance offices, telephone services and email. You can also get answers to other questions related to finding employment.

You can find the contact information of employment services here.