Employees may participate free of charge in language courses tailored to the staff.
For information on the courses, please go to HENKKA training calendar. Choose Course Programme, choose Kielipalvelut for the organizer, and you will get a list of all personnel language courses. Click the name of the course and a new page will open; at the bottom of the page you will find a link for registration. If you cannot access HENKKA, please contact your supervisor or our course secretary at kielikeskus-kielipalvelut@helsinki.fi. Registration ends two weeks before the course in question starts. If there are less than 10 registrations for a course, the course will be cancelled.
Please note that there are also two beginners’ Finnish courses and one beginners’ Swedish course tailored for international personnel, one in the centre campus and one in Viikki.
AUTUMN 2013 LANGUAGE COURSES
International staff especially
09.09. - 02.12.2013 Work with Finnish! A beginners' course in Finnish (Centre)
12.09. - 05.12.2013 Work with Finnish! A beginners' course in Finnish (Viikki)
09.09. - 02.12.2013 Work with Swedish! A beginners' course in Swedish
ENGLISH
20.08. - 30.08.2013 Teaching through English
17.09. - 03.12.2013 English @ Work, basic level (Viikki)
18.09. - 23.10.2013 Academic Editing, advanced level
19.09. - 12.12.2013 Brush up your Conversation, upper-intermediate level
19.09. - 28.11.2013 English for Fluency, upper-intermediate to advanced level
24.09. - 10.12.2013 Advanced English (Viikki)
30.10. - 04.12.2013 Conference Presentation, advanced level
FRENCH
18.09. - 04.12.2013 Advanced discussion course
SWEDISH
13.09. - 29.11.2013 Aktivera din svenska! Basic to intermediate level
Language Services also offers open-enrolment Finnish for foreigners courses. Please see more information here. If you are unable to attend a course or if you could not be placed in a course, you are welcome to take advantage of the study opportunities offered by the Self-Access Centre of the Aleksandria Learning Centre (Fabianinkatu 28).