Lappia

Vocational Program Application

✨Congratulations✨ on finishing your Finnish Language Program. In this article, we will show you how to:

Apply for your dream school
Prepare and submit the required documents

Where are you on the journey?

After qualifying for the Finnish Certification, now it’s time to choose your study program and apply for your dream schools before getting the verification from the school’s principal.

School Application Timeline

Most Vocational Schools will have their own application period. After you've achieved your suitable certification (B1.1 or B1.2 depending on the programs), please inform your partner for further support at this stage.

Access to Wilma

Here’s where you access Wilma, a Finland national vocational schools application platform, to fill in your information and program choice.

Please be noted that you can only apply once you reach the required Finnish Level Certification. If you need further information on the criteria and requirements of each program, please find it HERE.

Step 1. Access the Wilma application system

Your partner will provide you with the suitable application link for your school.

Step 2. Website translation and navigation

From here, you can utilize Google Translate function on your laptop/PC browser to translate to your language for easier navigation. There are 2 ways to do this, by either clicking on the translate button on the right of your address bar or right-clicking anywhere on the website and clicking on 'Translate to...'. An example can be seen in the below video. Even though the Google Translation tool is not 100% accurate, it will help you to navigate the website

(if the video does not autoplay, please click on it)

Translating the website

We advise you NOT TO click on the below button to change the language to English, as sometimes the Wilma portal does not fully support English for the application.

✨ Or you can follow our instructions below ✨

Applying to Wilma

Now that you know how to access and navigate the Wilma website, it's time to start the application process.

Again, please be noted that you can only apply once you reach the required Finnish Level Certification. If you need further information on the criteria and requirements of each program, please find it HERE.

Step 1. Terms & Conditions

On the very first page, you will encounter the Terms step. Simply click ' Hyväksyn, jatka ' on the bottom right to continue to the form.

Step 2. Personal Information

Here, you will fill in your application details and information, including your name, sex, etc.:

For your Surname, Given name, and Preferred name (can be the same as given name).
Social Security, please tick on the box next to it as shown below.
Sex: by clicking on the button with the blue circle, you can choose either 'Nainen'/'Female' or 'Mies'/'Male'.

Step 3. Personal Information (continue)

Moving on to the next part, you can fill in the information such as Citizenship, Motherland, etc..

Citizenship: please browse the list by clicking on the button and look for your country's name. If you have duo-citizenship, you can pick the second one in Citizenship 2
Mother Tongue: please browse the list by clicking on the button, if you cannot find your language, you can simply choose 'englanti'/'english'.
Country: please browse the list by clicking on the button and look for your country's name.
Residence permit/Residence permit valid until: you can leave this blank.

Step 4. Means of Communication

Here you will need to fill in some further personal information, such as:

Street/Address: please fill in your home address in your country.
Postal Code: please select ' 00000 Ulkomaat ' from the list.
Municipality of residence: please choose ' Ulkomaat ' from the list.
Phone number: enter your mobile phone number including your country code
Email Address: please make sure your email address is correct, as school will use this to send announcements and further instructions.
Guardian info: you can leave this blank.

Step 5. Background & Motivation

In this section, you will write a brief paragraph answering the questions stated. For the first question, you can state your strengths, competencies, and skills in relate to the program that you are choosing.

For the second question, answer whether you have any factors that may affect your study at Lappia.

Tick the first box to let the school knows that you are applying as a Finest Future student.

For the second, third, fourth, and fifth boxes, please choose if you feel comfortable with sharing your information with the school.

DO NOT tick the last box ' Haluan opiskelijavalintapäätöksen kirjepostina ' as you are living in foreign countries.

Step 6. Previous Education

With Previous Education, you will have to input your degrees here.

For education 'Pohjakoulutus', always choose '0 Ulkomainen todistus', which can be found when you click on the options button.

Then in 'Other Education' section, you can input the name of your degree, whether it is Bachelor's, High School, or Lower Secondary School Degree, and fill in your Graduating Year and Study Period (an example can be seen below).

Remember you can input your Finest Future Finnish Language Certificate as shown below, and specify whether it is B1.1 or B1.2

Step 7. Working Experience

For this section, you will fill in your relevant working experience to your chosen program. For example, if you are choosing Practical Nurse program, you can fill in experiences working as a nurse or in relevant hospitals, etc.

For:

Employer: please fill in your company name.
Job Function & type of work: please fill in your job title, as well as the type of work alongside with some short description of your job.
Employment Start/End Date: please select the date using dd.mm.yyyy format.
If you have any further relevant activities, please describe it in the ' Competence gained through other activities ' section.

Step 8. Almost There

After you have filled in all the information, click on Seuraava to enter the final step.

Reviewing Your Application

Here, you will have the chance to review all your information.

Please make sure that you have attached and filled in all the required information. And double check your email and personal info.

After you are done with reviewing, simply click on 'Tallenna' to bubmit.