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The Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland
30.01.2026
ISYY is giving out grants for student associations (UEF), campus associations and ISYY clubs for international activities in spring 2026! The grant is for events and projects that promote internationalisation and are organised in the spring semester 2026. Examples of such projects can be new means to better include international students in student association activities, language exchange or how to get international and Finnish students to interact more. You can use creativity in the planning process! Please note that you cannot receive this grant for projects that have already received this grant in the past. ISYY will organise a separate call for this grant for autumn semester’s international activities.
The project should include some if not all of the qualities mentioned below in addition to promoting internationalisation:
Two best applications will receive a grant of 300 € each for implementing the planned project. ISYY reserves the right to withhold the grant(s) if ISYY does not receive applications that are deemed to be acceptable. Please note that the grant cannot be used to buy alcohol.
If ISYY awards the grant, the organiser is required to enhance ISYY’s visibility during the execution of the project. For example, the event ticket and marketing text should mention ISYY as a funder of the event. ISYY’s logo must be visible in the marketing material. The ISYY logo can be downloaded from the Documents webpage under the “Logos” folder.
Associations or clubs that receive the grant for their internationalisation project are required to file a report to ISYY evaluating the project's success and achieved results. The report has to be sent to ISYY by 18 June 2026. ISYY will give instructions and a report model based on which the association or club can write their report. The reports will be published on ISYY’s website, where they will be available as models and frameworks for other associations or clubs to use.
The grants are paid in March. If the whole grant is not used by 18 June, the rest of the money must be returned to ISYY. In addition to the report, the receiver of the grant must give ISYY a copy of the receipts of all the purchases made for the project with ISYY’s grant.
Application period for the grant is from 30 January till 22 February. Applications must be left online via the application form. The application form closes on Sunday 22.2.2026 at 23:59. Applications are reviewed from Monday 23 February onwards. Cooperating with another association or club to create the project is possible, but the grant is paid to the association or club that sends the application.
A project plan with the estimate of expenses must be attached to the application. All the attachments must be sent by email according to campus, so either to kv.kuopio(at)isyy.fi (KUOPIO) OR kv.joensuu(at)isyy.fi (JOENSUU). Title your email as ‘Internationalisation grant attachments *association name/club name*’. The attachments should be named as ‘Internationalisation grant_attachment_NameoftheAssociation/Club’. The attachments have to be sent during the application period. Late applications will not be processed.
NB! This is a separate grant from ISYY’s general and activity grants! This grant is meant only for projects that promote internationalisation.
Elina Pitkänen, Coordinator of International Affairs and Administration, Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY), kv.kuopio(at)isyy.fi, tel. + 358 44 576 8413
Joona Rantala, Coordinator of International Affairs, Student Union of the University of Eastern Finland (ISYY), kv.joensuu(at)isyy.fi, tel. +358 44 576 8456