Enrolment for courses

Enrolment is binding. If you enrol on a course, you commit to pay the course fee. Students are accepted to the course in the order of enrolment, and it is also recommended to enrol on a waiting-list. If you enrol through ilmonet.fi, please remember to verify your contact information.

Enrolment on the courses spanning over a whole year is binding for both semesters. If you want to participate only in one of the semesters, please contact the customer support before the start of the semester.

Please note! Any changes in contact information are not automatically updated in the register of the Adult Education Centre. You can change your contact information in the ilmonet.fi or through our customer support.

Read more about the enrolment for the courses at the Adult Education Centre.

Upon registration you commit to pay the course fee. Please read our cancellation terms. The course fee is specified for each course in the ilmonet.fi service.

Read more about the course fees and discounts at the Adult Education Centre.

• You may cancel your enrolment for free 7 days prior to the start of the course at the latest.
• If 1 to 6 days are left until the course starts, 50% of the course fee and 100% of the materials fee will be charged.
• If the enrolment is cancelled on the start day of the course or later, the course and materials fee have to be paid in full.
• If you do not appear for the course or fail to pay the course fee, this will not be considered cancellation.
• The terms of cancellation also apply to those who have been accepted from the waiting-list.
• Enrolment for the courses spanning over a whole year is binding for both semesters. If you want to participate only in one of the semesters, please contact the customer support before the start of the semester.
• You cannot cancel your enrolment by notifying your course teacher.
• The terms of cancelling trips and tours are specified in the information about the relevant course. 

You may cancel your enrolment based on the terms of cancellation specified above through ilmonet.fi or by contacting the customer support of the Education Centre. If there are less than 7 days to the start of the course, cancel your enrolment through the customer support. 

The Vantaa Adult Education Centre offers a discount of 50 % from the course fee to unemployed job seekers.

Read more about discounts offered by the Adult Education Centre to unemployed job seekers.

We might cancel a course or introduce changes to the information provided. The registered students will be notified of such changes by e-mail or text message. During a semester, one teaching session may be cancelled, if necessary, for a course that has assembled at least 11 times, without arranging a compensating teaching session or reducing the course fee. If more teaching sessions are cancelled, only the amounts exceeding 15.00 EUR will be refunded.

• We will notify the students about the cancellation of a teaching session, where possible, by a text message, e-mail or phone.
• If the entire course is cancelled due to an insufficient number of participants, we will notify the students about such cancellation.
• You can pre-apply for the next semester of certain courses (e.g., languages, arts, exercise) before the course opens for everyone. The teacher will inform you about that during the last classes.
• Generally, there are no classes during week 8 as well as on national holidays and the days preceding the holidays.
• The Education Centre does not insure students against accidents. We recommend that our students also take care of sufficient insurance cover for the period of activity spent at the Education Centre
• The minimum age limit for courses is 15 years, excluding family courses.
• The minimum age limit for participants in technical craft courses is 18 years.

For each course, information will be posted on the web in case learning is changed to distance learning in exceptional circumstances. Thus, the participant can take this into account already upon registration, in which case this will not affect billing for the course. If the information about the course does not specify distance learning, the course will not transfer to the web, but it will terminate completely or the teaching sessions will be carried over. If teaching sessions are not held, this will be taken into account in billing.

The first invoice is always sent as a hard copy. If you want to receive the following invoices electronically, you can make an e-billing contract in your online bank. Specify the City of Vantaa as the billing party and the Adult Education Centre in the payment details. In the hard copy of the wire transfer form you will find information needed for making an e-billing contract in the online bank.

For further instructions regarding e-billing, please contact your online bank and bank customer service.

You cannot pay for the courses at the Vantaa Adult Education Centre by the vouchers offered by your employer, such as Smartum or ePassi.

If you are an unemployed job seeker, you will be offered a discount of 50 % from the course fees that are EUR 21.00 or more (except for the courses marked with *). The discount does not apply to the course material fees.

Upon completion of the course, you can request a study certificate from the study secretary. The study certificate fee is EUR 10.00 and it will be sent to you by post.

The Vantaa Adult Education Centre only accepts the certificate obtained from the employment agency services or municipal experiment e-service proving the validity of job seeking. The discount is intended for unemployed job seekers, and granting the discount depends on the code specifying the unemployment status. If necessary, we may request the most recent receipt of unemployment benefit as additional proof. Please note that the certificate must be issued at least 30 days ago when delivered to the Vantaa Adult Education Centre.

You can obtain the certificate by signing in with your online bank credentials to Oma asiointi (e-service) at the address tyomarkkinatori.fi. (Kaikki asiointi -> Oma työnhaku -> Katsele omia työnhakutietoja ->). If you do not have online bank credentials, ask the employment agency or employment services to issue you one.

Send the certificate as an attachment to the address aikuisopisto@vantaa.fi or bring it to the office of the Vantaa Adult Education Centre.

Please remember that unemployment has to be proven once a semester (autumn semester from 01.08 to 31.12 and spring semester from 01.01 to 31.07). If you are attending a course that lasts a whole year, please remember to submit the certificate of unemployment for both the autumn and spring semesters. Please submit the certificate of unemployment to the Vantaa Adult Education Centre not later than by the day when the course starts. After the course has started, no discount will be granted.

• courses marked with *
• material fees
• study tours
• language Tests 
• exams
• course certificates
• Open University Studies
• lectures