Credit courses

The Helsinki Finnish Adult Education Centre offers competency-based courses for which you receive study credits and a certificate. Such courses are called credit courses or competency-based courses. You can use the certificate in your degree programme or when looking for a job. The printed guide indicates these courses with the Credit Course symbol. 

Pick up credits!

See all the credit courses on ilmonet

Make the most of your knowledge!

  • Pass or Fail
    All credit courses are assessed as either “pass” or “fail.” If you fail the course, it is not recorded anywhere. If you pass, it means you have achieved the course’s goals and your achievements will be recorded in My Studyinfo.
  • Goals and Criteria
    The course description on ilmonet.fi always indicates how your knowledge will be assessed during the course and what is required to register for credits.
  • Credits
    The extent of the course is indicated by credits. One credit is worth approximately 27 hours of work. The work can be done during and/or outside of class time.
  • Voluntary
    It is always voluntary to register for credits – if you do not want your knowledge to be assessed during the course, you can take the course without registering for credits.
  • Koski
    Is the name of the official database where credits are registered and maintained by the Finnish National Agency for Education. You can see your own achievements and credits by logging into the My Studyinfo page.

I want credits. What should I do? / Who should I inform?

If the course you intend to take is registered as a credit course, you can earn credits for it.

You can either inform that you want to register for credits when signing up on Ilmonet, or inform the teacher at the beginning of the course. If you inform the teacher at the beginning of the course, you will need to go to the customer service with an identification document and fill out a consent form for the credits to be registered.