Services

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  • Personal coaching

    Service

    Personal coaching is meant for 18 - 29-year-old Vantaa residents without a job or a study place.

  • Preparatory teaching for basic education

    Service

    Preparatory teaching is provided for children and young people who are not proficient enough in Finnish language to study in a group taught in Finnish.

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  • School meals

    Service

    A school meal is served every day, and it is free of charge.

  • School travel and school transportation

    Service

    School transportation is primarily arranged by public modes of transport, in which case the student receives a free-of-charge schoolchild's travel card. The travelcard can be downloaded at Vantaa Infos. In exceptional cases, however, taxi transportation can be arranged, if it is not possible for the

  • Schools on the Move

    Service

    The aim of the Schools on the Move programme is to promote a culture of physical activity in basic education and support the expertise and well-being of school personnel.

  • Services that promote the employment of international clients

    Service

    In the services that promote the employment of international clients, each person is assigned a personal employment advisor who provides support in choosing services and addressing employment-related matters.

  • Sports services for young people

    Service

    Vantaa motivates young people to adopt an active lifestyle through a variety of sports services.

  • Student body

    Service

    During their general upper secondary school studies, students can participate in and influence the school's and also the City of Vantaa's operations by becoming active in their school's student board, for example.

  • Student office opens in new window, links to another website

    Service

    In the student affairs office, you can take care of practical matters related to your studies.

  • Student sports

    Service

    Student sports mean competitive sports between comprehensive schools in Vantaa.

  • Students on the Move

    Service

    The aim of the Students on the Move programme is to promote physical activity and study ability among upper secondary students.

  • Studying in a distance general upper secondary school

    Service

    Instead of a whole degree, studying remotely also allows for completing individual courses or subject units, improving one's grades and supplementing a previous matriculation examination with new subjects.

  • Summer-job voucher for the young

    Service

    The City of Vantaa supports 15-18-year-old Vantaa young people with a summer-job voucher worth 300 euros. A young person may get one summer-job voucher per year. You can apply for the 2026 summer-job voucher as of February 2026.

  • Swedish language immersion

    Service

    Swedish language immersion begins in early childhood education or pre-primary education and lasts until the end of basic education.

  • Syllabus of Finnish as a second language (S2)

    Service

    Teaching of Finnish as a second language (S2) is available to students who do not have native-level Finnish language skills.

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  • Teaching for disabled students

    Service

    Due to the student's intellectual disability or autism, their teaching will be held in city-level special support groups.

  • Teaching of the student's native tongue

    Service

    Vantaa provides teaching of a student's own native tongue, home language and maintained language for two hours per week.

  • TUVA education

    Service

    TUVA education aims to attain such learning skills with which the student performs education leading to an upper secondary education degree.

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  • University of Applied Sciences Studies in Varia

    Service

    Students of Varia have the opportunity to study at a university of applied sciences level already during their vocational education studies in collaboration with Haaga-Helia, Laurea or Metropolia.

  • Upper secondary education with a special duty

    Service

    Studies can be specialised in the City of Vantaa's general upper secondary schools.

  • Urhea activities

    Service

    Urhea activities in Vantaa lower secondary schools and Sotunki Upper Secondary School support the coordination of schooling and athletics of children and young people that take part in goal-oriented athletic operations.

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  • Weighted-curriculum education in music for 3rd-9th grades

    Service

    Weighted-curriculum education in music starts in the third grade and continues throughout basic education even if the school changes in between. Students in weighted-curriculum are interested in music and have the prerequisites to study music.