We develop education, early childhood education and care and continuous learning and promote internationalisation together with our customers and partners. On our website, you can find information about the National core curricula and qualification requirements as well as the services we provide in our role as a government authority.

If you cannot find the information you are looking for on our website, our experts will help you. To help us provide services smoothly, the best way of contacting us is sending an e-mail to one of our service addresses, which we monitor during the office hours. 

  • Early childhood education and care: varhaiskasvatus [at] oph.fi
  • Basic education: perusopetus [at] oph.fi
  • General upper secondary education: lukio [at] oph.fi
  • Vocational education and training: ammatillinenkoulutus [at] oph.fi
  • Studyinfo: info [at] studieinfo.fi (info[at]studieinfo[dot]fi)
  • Application fee to higher education in Studyinfo: applicationfee [at] oph.fi
  • Recognition and international comparability of qualifications: recognition [at] oph.fi
  • Publications and learning materials: julkaisut [at] oph.fi (julkaisut[at]oph[dot]fi)
  • National Certificates of Language Proficiency (YKI) tests: kielitutkinnot [at] oph.fi

 

Please note! The Finnish National Agency for Education and the Institute for the Languages of Finland will be merged on 1 January 2026.

Our e-mail address will not change, but there may be interruptions when receiving and sending messages from 31 December 2025 until 2 January 2026. 
The service addresses ending with oph.fi will be handled starting on Jan 8 in most cases.
There may be interruptions in handling the Studyinfo/Opintopolku.fi service addresses from 31 December 2025 to 2 January 2026.

Registry and archive

If you do not know whom your question should be addressed to, send an e-mail to our Registry. The Registry will forward your enquiry to the relevant unit.
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If your question concerns the activities of an individual school, educational institution or education provider, teaching arrangements or learning materials used in schools, contact your school, educational institution or education provider, such as the municipality.

Questions about the supervision of schools and educational institutions are answered by municipalities and regional administrative authorities (the Regional State Administrative Agencies).

Questions about such matters as higher education and education policy can be addressed to the Ministry of Education and Culture. 

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On the Contact us page you can find such information as the telephone number of our switchboard and the invoicing and visiting addresses of the Finnish National Agency for Education.

Use the Accessibility feedback form if you wish to give feedback on the accessibility of the site or if you would like to obtain some of its content in an accessible format.

You can search the EDUFI Phonebook for our experts’ contact information by name, title or keywords. Please note that our experts are not on call to answer telephone contacts or e-mails immediately. The fastest and most reliable way of getting an answer to your question is sending an e-mail to one of our service addresses listed above, which we monitor continuously.

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