Nomination and Application Procedure

Novia University of Applied Sciences welcomes students from partner institutions to apply as exchange students to any of our degree programmes, located at the different campuses. Below you'll find information on:

Nomination for a Study Exchange
Nomination for a Practice Placement in Nursing
Nomination for a European Project Semester (EPS)

Nomination for a study exchange

Nomination deadlines

Our partner universities are requested to send the nomination by email to our international coordinator by:

15 April for the autumn term
15 October for the spring term

The nomination should include the name of the student, date of birth, gender, email address, planned period of stay (Spring/Autumn/whole academic year) and the Degree Programme at Novia in which the exchange student wants to study.

Please note that nominations from the students themselves are not accepted.

General application deadlines

After the student has been nominated we will register the person in the online mobility programme SoleMove and s/he will get an email with a link to the programme and a user name and password.

Exchange student shall submit his/her application via SoleMove by:

1 May for the autumn term
1 November for the spring term

Please note that there are specific deadlines and application procedures for practice placements in Nursing and the European Project Semester, EPS. More information is found below.

Students applying to the degree programme in Fine Arts or Media Culture are requested to send their portfolios (preferably as a link to a website).

Nomination for a Practice Placement in Nursing

Nursing placements are offered in Vaasa and Turku. Students accepted for a practice placement in Nursing need to follow the health regulations in Vaasa and Turku as listed below.

Students from the Nordic countries should read the information (in Swedish) in the document "Hälsokrav för nordiska studerande".

Nomination deadlines

Our partner universities are requested to send the nomination by email to our international coordinator by:

15 February for the autumn term
15 September for the spring term

The nomination should include the name of the student, date of birth, email address and planned period of stay.

Please note that nominations from the students themselves are not accepted.

Application deadlines

After the student has been nominated we will register the student in the online mobility programme SoleMove and s/he will get an email with a link to the programme and a user name and password.

Student who wishes to do a practice placement shall submit his/her application via SoleMove by:

1 March for the autumn term
1 October for the spring term

NB! The forms below should only be filled in and returned when the placement has been confirmed

Health regulations in Vaasa

Health regulations in Turku

Vaccinations, MRSA, Tuberculosis

Nomination for a European Project Semester (EPS)

Novia UAS is a member of the European Project Semester (EPS) network. The European Project Semester is a program offered by ten European universities in eight countries throughout Europe primarily to third year students. EPS is created with engineering students in mind, but students from other fields of study are also welcome.

Novia UAS runs EPS twice a year: during the autumn semester from September-December and during the spring semester from February-May.

The application deadline for EPS is 1 November for the spring term and 1 May for the autumn term. For more information about EPS and the application procedure please visit the following website.