Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education is the highest education authority in Finland, supervising publicly subsidised education and training provision, from primary and secondary general education and vocational training to polytechnic, university and adult education.

Finnish education and science policy stresses quality, efficiency, equity and internationalism. It is geared to promote the competitiveness of Finnish welfare society. In Finland, the basic right to education and culture is recorded in the Constitution.

The University Admissions service is mainly financed by the Ministry of Education.

CIMO - Centre for International Mobility

CIMO administers scholarship and exchange programmes and is responsible for implementing nearly all EU education, training, culture and youth programmes at national level. CIMO also promotes and organises international trainee exchanges and advances teaching of Finnish language and culture in universities abroad and arranges summer courses in Finnish language and culture for international students.

CIMO was established in 1991 and it operates under the Finnish Ministry of Education.