Course fees
- Course fees are determined based on the number of teaching hours and the number of credits at the Open University. The duration of one lesson is 45 minutes.
- Depending on the course, we may also charge fees for material and language tests.
- In family courses, the course fee includes one adult and one child.
- If you enrol on a course that lasts for a term or academic year halfway through, you will receive a 50% discount on the course fee.
- If one lesson is cancelled on a course that lasts for the whole term, students are not entitled to deductions from the course fee or a compensation lesson.
- The €13 language test included in the Finnish language YKI certificate studies will only be invoiced if the test is passed successfully.
Terms of payment
- You will be invoiced via online payment once the course has started. The term of payment for online payment is 14 days from the invoicing date.
- We will send you information about the online payment by email.
- You can make a payment by logging in to the Ilmonet.fi service, from which the online payment will be redirected to the website of the Paytrail payment forwarding service.
- If the student does not have an email address or does not pay the invoice in the Ilmonet.fi service, we will send to the student a new invoice as an e-invoice, electronically to the OmaPosti or Kivra service or by regular letter mail to their home address. The new invoice has a 21-day payment term from the invoice date and there are no additional costs.
- Students under the age of 18 need an adult to pay for the course fee. We will need the payer’s full information, including personal identification number. The person paying the fee must enroll the underage student for their courses by calling the Espoo Adult Education Centre's customer service.
- If the course is paid for by a company or association, the student must contact customer service to provide the necessary payment information when enrolling on the course. The invoicing address cannot be changed afterwards.
- Unpaid invoices will be forwarded to a collection agency.
- If a student has invoices in debt collection, they cannot enroll in a new course. Enrolment becomes possible again after the invoices have been paid.
- If you have questions about invoicing, you can contact our customer service by sending an email to espoon.tyovaenopisto@omnia.fi or by calling tel. 020 692 333 on Mon–Thu at 13–15.
Payment of the course
We use online payment for course invoicing, which can be found on the Ilmonet.fi service.
- A message regarding the course fee will be sent to the student’s e-mail from the address: espoontyovaenopisto.noreply@ilmonet.fi.
- The subject line of the message will read: “Omnia Espoon työväenopisto, kurssimaksun verkkomaksaminen” (“Espoo Adult Education Centre Omnia, online payment of course fee”).
- You can pay the course fee by logging into the Ilmonet.fi service by clicking on “my account” and selecting “online payments”.
- The online payment will be redirected to the Paytrail page, which will charge the payment from your account as a direct payment and the payment due date cannot be changed at this stage.
- The payment provider Paytrail will charge the approved payment from your account, and you will receive a confirmation by email.
- NOTE: Online payment link’s invoicing information or account numbers cannot be extracted for a new payment, and the reference numbers of previous invoices cannot be used for new payments.
- If you do not have an email address or do not pay the invoice in the Ilmonet.fi service by the due date, a new invoice will be sent to you with the new due date without additional costs.
- If you have a valid e-invoice agreement with your own bank, the invoice will be delivered primarily as an e-invoice.
- You can make an e-invoice agreement according to your own bank's instructions while paying the invoice in the online bank; you will need the new invoice reference number for this. An e-invoice agreement is an agreement between the customer and the bank. The invoice provider for Omnia Espoo Adult Education Centre is Espoon seudun koulutuskuntayhtymä Omnia (Espoon seudun koulutusky Omnia).
- If you use the OmaPosti and Kivra services, the invoice will be delivered primarily to the OmaPosti service. Otherwise, we will send the invoice by regular letter mail to the address you have provided.
- If you have made an e-invoice agreement with your own bank, you can pay the invoice either in the Ilmonet.fi service or wait for the e-invoice to arrive in your online bank.
- Please update your e-mail address on Ilmonet.fi or inform Espoo Adult Education Centre customer service of your changed contact information.
Benefits and discounts
Courses subsidised by the Finnish National Agency for Education (OPH courses)
Courses marked with “OPH” are more affordable, because they have been subsidised by the Finnish National Agency for Education’s training subsidy. The training subsidy is intended for people with a low level of basic education, immigrants, unemployed people, people over 63 years of age, pensioners, and people with learning difficulties. Pensioners refers to people who receive basic pension, employment pension or disability pension and are not gainfully employed.
- To get the lower subsidised price, you must belong to the target group of the course. If you do not belong to the target group, you will be charged the standard course fee.
- The course information indicates both an affordable training subsidy price (OPH) and a normal course fee.
- Students are admitted in order of enrolment, but a separate application is required for literacy training for immigrants.
- OPH courses are not subject to unemployment discounts.
Payment with employment benefits
You can pay for courses with employee benefits at Espoo info. The following sport and culture cards are accepted, along with mobile payment: Eazybreak, Smartum, Edenred and ePassi.
- Note! The invoice in the Ilmonet.fi service cannot be paid with employee benefits. Wait for a new invoice, which will arrive as an e-invoice, electronically to the OmaPosti or Kivra service or by regular letter mail.
- Take a printed invoice and your ID with you to Espoo info when paying with employee benefits. Please note, presenting an electronic invoice is not enough to make a payment.
- Payment methods are personal and cannot be used to pay for materials or handouts.
- If you want to pay with employee benefits, the invoice must be paid no later than the invoice due date.
- The invoice cannot be paid with an employee benefit if the course information indicates that Sports/culture voucher not possible or if the invoice has been transferred to a collection agency.
Unemployment discount instructions
Unemployed people are eligible for a 50% discount on course fees over €20.
- The discount does not apply to Open University courses, degree fees, course material fees, study voucher courses, level tests, language learning trips or if the course information states that the discount does not apply.
- Unemployment must be demonstrated before the start of the course, once every term.
- The unemployment certificate must be no more than 30 days old.
- Acceptable certificates are:
- A screenshot or image from Job Market Finland (Työmarkkinatori) service pages. The image must show the person's name and the information that he is an unemployed job seeker.
- A certificate of the validity of the job search printed by the Official of Employment Services.
- Other official document showing that the person is unemployed.
- You can send your certificate via a secure e-mail transmission: · Open https://smail.omnia.fi/
- Add sender: your own e-mail address
- Press continue · Add receiver of the e-mail: espoon.tyovaenopisto@omnia.fi
- In the title field please write “Certificate of unemployment”
- Write to the comment field your whole name and birth date (ddmmyyyy)
- Attach a certificate of your unemployment
- Press send
- You can also send the certificate by post or present it at Omnia Service Centre. We recommend sending the certificate by email. Terms and conditions can be read in full on ilmonet.fi.
Kaikukortti card
The aim of Kaikukortti is to improve the opportunities of young people, adults and families who are financially hard-pressed to enjoy art and culture. You can use the Kaikukortti card to get free tickets and course places to the cultural venues of the Kaikukortti networks. The card is non-transferrable and free of charge.
You can attend one course of the Espoo Adult Education Centre free of charge per term (terms: 1 January to 31 July and 1 August to 31 December).
You can also attend family courses together with your child.
Not eligible for the Kaikukortti discount:
- Finnish language courses
- courses that are part of a qualification: general language examination (YKI), Open University education, basic education in arts, seafaring courses
- training courses leading to a certificate: first aid courses, hygiene passport training and the basics of music theory and composition
- fees for open learning environments
- some material fees of courses.
If you have enrolled in a course but fail to attend it, you will be deemed to have used the free course.
You can enrol for courses via the ilmonet.fi online service or by calling our customer service. Notify our customer service of your Kaikukortti number before the start of the course. If you do not notify us of your Kaikukortti number, we will charge you the normal price for the course.
Read more about Kaikukortti (kaikukortti,fi).