Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics grants internship funding for the internships during the year 2025. The amount of internship funding is 500€ per month. In addition, JSBE pays the employer's statutory pension contributions (TYEL).
JSBE internship funding can be granted to an internship located in Finland or abroad in a Finnish organization (e.g. Finnish embassies). Internship funding is not a grant for the student, but the funding is paid to the internship placement after the internship period against an invoice.
- It is possible to receive JSBE internship funding for an internship abroad in a foreign organization when it is not possible for a student to receive an Erasmus+ grant or the university travel grant. Funding for an internship abroad in a foreign organization is granted as a travel grant to the student.
Major students of JSBE can apply for this funding for 1-3 months depending on the need. Two or three months of internship funding is granted for a well-founded reason. The application period is ongoing as long as there is funding left.
Application process
You can apply for internship funding when your internship plan has been approved and you have discussed with the employer about the possibility of applying for internship funding and agreed on the related salary payment (see detailed information on paying of internship funding at the bottom of this page).
Note. If you are going to apply for an internship placement that requires internship funding, you can apply for a preliminary decision on internship funding. In this case, the funding is granted conditionally and you can use it if you get the internship placement you are applying for. If you don't get the internship placement, the funding will be returned to the faculty. However, you can apply for funding again for another internship placement.
Terms of application
Eligible applicant
- is a JSBE undergraduate student and will be completing their bachelor's/master's degree at the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics
- has not previously used an internship funding granted by JSBE
- a student in the bachelor's degree phase has the mandatory basic and subject study courses in his own field of study completed (excluding seminar work in subject studies) before the start of the internship
- a student who entered the master's degree studies directly has completed at least one semester of studies before the internship starts (approx. 30 cr)
Criteria for granting internship funding
- internship can be optional or mandatory
- internship can be full-time or part-time
- your degree programme awards credits for internship, minimum 5 ECTS per month, maximum 15 ECTS (the internship contact person in your degree programme has approved your internship plan)
- Note. if you need to apply for a preliminary decision on internship funding: ensure suitability of the internship placement with the internship contact person before you apply for a preliminary decision
- JSBE's general internship criteria must be met and the internship must meet the internship requirements of each degree programme
- The internship must be in Finland or in a Finnish organization abroad
- The duration of the internship is at least 150 h. In full-time training, this number of hours corresponds to training lasting one month.
- Internships can be unpaid or paid
- funding can be granted for internships where the internship salary is below Kela's employment conditions minimum (in 2025 €1,430/month) or
- if the internship salary is more than Kela's employment conditions minimum and the internship requires an internship support in order to hire a student or prioritizes internship support recipients when making a hiring decision (information about the condition can be found in the internship announcement)
- A JSBE undergraduate student can apply for funding for 1–3 months as needed
- Basically, two or three months of internship support is granted for a well-founded reason
- The supported internship must take place during the year 2025
- The recipient of the internship support must be a student present throughout the internship
- The student undertakes to include the internship in his studies and will not graduate during the internship
Internship support is not granted
- for those students who have already received JSBE internship support (completed internship)
- for those students who apply for internship support retroactively
- for an internship abroad, except for internships in Finnish organizations abroad
- JSBE internship support cannot be received at the same time as an Erasmus internship grant or the university travel grant
- with Opetushallitus for EDUFI internship, for which Opetushallitus grants its own funding
How to apply?
Fill out the electronic application form carefully. Attach a link to the internship announcement in the application.
If you need help filling out the form, please contact education coordinator Kinna Tasala. After sending the form, you will get a message on the screen when the form has been sent succesfully. In case of errors, try again.
Method of selection
Internship funding is granted for suitable internships in order of application. Internship funding can be granted to students who meet the criteria as long as there is remaining funding. Make sure your personal study plan (HOPS) is up-to-date. In the selection, a student's application for internship funding is also taken into account. If there are a lot of applications, priority will be given to applicants who do an unpaid internship or applicants who do not have work experience in their field.
There is no right of appeal against the decision of the dean for the internship funding, University Law (558/2009) § 84, 5.
Payment of internship funding
JSBE does not pay internship funding for an internship in Finland to the student, but the funding is paid to the internship employer against an invoice at the end of the internship period.
The employer pays the internship funding granted to the student as the intern's salary. At the beginning of the internship, the employer, the faculty and the student sign an internship agreement, in which the faculty undertakes to fund the student's internship and the student undertakes to include the internship in their studies. At the end of the internship, the employer invoices the faculty for the amount agreed in the internship agreement.
NB 1: The internship funding compensates the employer for part of their salary costs incurred by hiring the intern. Organizations that require internship funding have already taken it into account in the salary sum, so the student does not (necessarily) receive the internship funding sum on top of the salary paid by the organization.
NB 2: Unpaid internships and paid internships (salary below Kela's working conditions minimum), which do not require internship support: agree with the employer about paying the internship funding as a salary before applying for the internship funding. In the case of paid internship, there may be more room for negotiation regarding the payment of the internship funding sum on top of the salary.
