APPLICATION
Application
Who can apply for Turku Åbo Summer School?
In most cases you are welcome to apply if you are at least 18 years old and have fluent English language skills. You don’t have to be presently enrolled in any university to apply. Some courses, however, have additional prerequisites on earlier education that are stated in the course descriptions.
The application period for Turku Åbo Summer School 2025 is now closed.
Apply by 17 APRIL 2025
Application process
1. Choose the course and tentatively plan your stay
Check out the course selection and choose the course that sounds the most tempting. Make sure that you meet the requirements for previous studies, if there are any. Choose also a plan B course, if possible, in case you’re not selected to the course of your first choice.
Familiarize yourself with practical matters regarding the summer school schedule, arriving and staying in Turku etc. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact summerschool@utu.fi. Check out our In Turku page for more information about accommodation, travel and visa matters.
Enrollment to the social programme will be opened later for the accepted participants.
2. Fill in the application form
The application form is now closed for 2025.
Please prepare a motivation letter and attach it to the application form. You should describe in the letter, why you wish to come to Turku Åbo Summer School and take the course(s) you have selected. The motivation letter is an important selection criteria and should be 1-2 pages long. (When attaching the motivation letter note that after you have uploaded the file to the application form, you still need to click ”attach file”.)
3. Wait for a confirmation e-mail and pay the course fee
We will send you an e-mail regarding the acceptance on the course. We will begin sending acceptance confirmations as soon as we can, when we have received a sufficient number of registrations for the course. After you have received the confirmation letter, the host institution that organises the course will send you information about how to pay the course fee. This information may come several days later than the confirmation e-mail.
After receiving the course payment instructions from the host institution, you will have two weeks to pay the course fee in order to secure your place on the course.
You will receive the confirmation letter at the end of April or early May at the very latest, if not already earlier during the registration period. You will have two weeks to pay the course fee after receiving the payment instructions in this case as well.
NB! As we will begin accepting students already during the application period, it is naturally possible that a course becomes fully booked already before the application period has ended. We therefore encourage you to send your application in good time. If a course is fully booked, we will mark this information clearly in the course page and on the application form.
4. Ask for a Letter of Acceptance if needed
After paying the course fee we can send you a Letter of Acceptance but we won’t do it automatically. If you need one for your home institution or visa application, please ask for it by e-mail.
5. What if you have to cancel your participation?
You can cancel your participation at any time. Whether you get your money back or not depends on when you cancel. Read more about our cancellation and refund policy.