Our education

Vocational education for
individuals and companies

We have license to offer vocational and professional training in many vocational qualifications, license for apprenticeship training, employment training, athlete training and education export. We also offer further training and education for personnel of different companies as well as a wide range of different authorisation card trainings for the needs of working life.

Ekami’s objective is to be able to respond to main competence and labour needs of region’s working life. As a local actor, we focus our operation and training at the same important fields of work in which investments are being made through the region’s labour and commercial policies. The task of vocational education and training is to offer working-life-oriented vocational education and training meeting the needs of working life.

Ekami offers educational and development services meeting the needs of enterprises, communities, and private persons. Every year over 9000 individuals study at Ekami.

Ekami arranges adult education and training as a form of self-reliant vocational basic education and training and as vocational further education, labour-force training, apprenticeship training, and personnel training.

In Finland, vocational education is mainly free of charge.

Based on national legislation, tuition fees will be introduced from 1 August 2026 for some students coming from outside the EU and EEA.

Tuition fees mainly apply to students who:

are citizens of a country outside the EU and EEA
start their studies on or after 1 August 2026
resident in Finland with a residence permit granted for the purpose of studies.

Tuition fees do not apply to all applicants. Whether a tuition fee is required depends, for example, on the applicant’s nationality, the basis of the residence permit and whether the student is subject to compulsory education.

Institution-specific practices, the amount of tuition fees and detailed payment conditions are still under preparation.

We will provide more information at a later stage.

Our education fields

Building maintenance technology
Business and administration
Construction
Electrical engineering and automation technology
Food production
Hairdressing and beauty care
Hotel, restaurant and catering services
Information and communications technology
Language and culture training
Logistics, storage & transport services
Maritime and port industry

Metalwork and machinery
Nature and environment
Process industry
Property maintenance services
Safety and security
Social and healthcare
Surface treatment technology
Tourism industry
Vehicle technology

We also have TUVA – preparatory education for vocational training, integration training for migrants, qualification and further education, as well as labour market training. In addition, we organize National Certificates of Language Proficiency (YKI) tests.