Finnish National Agency for Education collects and publishes annually statistics on mobility of students and staff in vocational education. Data collection concerns all students and staff who study or work among vocational upper secondary qualification. Data collection of mobility in VET has been ongoing since 2008.

Mobility of students as infographics

 

The number of mobility periods of students in VET, from Finland increased in 2025, and the number of people going abroad already exceeded 4,000.
9,5 % of those who started their studies in the same year left Finland for a period abroad.
2 500 teachers and other staff in VET left Finland and 4 100 people arrived in Finland in 2025.
Erasmus+ for VET funded 91 % of students' mobility periods in 2025.
Proportion of blended mobility in mobility periods was 16 % from and 15 % in mobility to Finland.
Work-based learning under a training agreement is the most common purpose of students’ periods abroad.
Over 90 % of student and staff mobility is directed towards Erasmus+ program countries.
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