Welcome to Summer University!

Summer University Courses

The aim of Pohjois-Pohjanmaan kesäyliopisto (Summer University of Northern Ostrobothnia) is to offer open university courses and other courses around the Pohjois-Pohjanmaa region, including Finnish language courses for foreigners. Some of the language courses are carried out online so you can participate where ever you are, given that you have the technics that are needed on the courses.

Find the courses by selecting from the categories. If you don't find what you are looking for, please contact our offices in Oulu, Kuusamo, Pyhäjärvi, Raahe or Ylivieska: Contacts

The registration on the courses is binding. If the student wishes to cancel his/her registration after the registration time, he/she will be charged half the price of the course. If the student does not make a cancellation at all, the total price will be charged. Some of the courses are free from charge.

On the Finnish language online courses we use Adobe Connect (AC) -conference room (virtual classroom). Learn more about AC by clicking the AC-link on the right.

All the Finnish language online courses are delivered by the Oulu office of  the Summer University.

What is Summer University

Our Summer University has five regional offices: in Oulu, Kuusamo, Pyhäjärvi, Raahe and Ylivieska.  The Summer University caters to the regional need of assisting its people to develop both their own professional know-how and their general knowledge by providing them with the opportunity to partake in lifelong learning.

The aims of all of the activity is that it should take place regionally, and that the course selection should be both versatile and modern as well as arise from a regional need.

In 1951, the Summer University began to organise higher education (university level) instruction in Oulu. This helped realise the need for a proper university in the area, and the University of Oulu opened its doors seven years later.

Of the 20 various summer universities that function all around Finland, the Summer University of Northern Ostrobothnia is one of the largest, and its annual intake of students is approximately 6000 students.