The Lisbon Recognition Convention, a convention on the recognition of higher education qualifications in the European region, is in force in Finland. The Lisbon Convention is in force in nearly all European countries. It aims at facilitating academic recognition of qualifications by improving the recognition procedures and increasing transparency.
In Finland, the universities and universities of applied sciences, the National Defence University, and the Åland University of Applied Sciences come within the scope of the Lisbon Convention.
Recommendations on among others the use of qualifications frameworks as tools in recognition, the criteria and procedures for the assessment on foreign qualifications, transnational education, joint degrees, and recognition of qualifications held by refugees have been accepted as appendices to the Lisbon Convention.
Academic recognition refers to
• admitting someone to studies based on a foreign education, and
• crediting of studies completed abroad towards a Finnish qualification.
• admitting someone to studies based on a foreign education, and
• crediting of studies completed abroad towards a Finnish qualification.
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Satu Haavisto
In Finland, education providers and higher education institutions are responsible for academic recognition. They decide on the admission of applicants who have completed their studies abroad and on the crediting of studies and other learning towards a Finnish qualification.
Upon request, the Finnish National Agency for Education provides information to education providers and higher education institutions to support academic recognition.