FIRST+ Programme
The FIRST+ programme (Finnish–Russian Student and Teacher Exchange Programme) promotes partnerships and collaboration of higher education institutions in Finland and Russia. The programme supports student and teacher mobility between Finnish and Russian higher education institutions and the organisation of joint intensive courses in Russia.
FIRST+ follows the FIRST programme (2000–2016), which supported high-quality cooperation between higher education institutions in Finland and north-west Russia. FIRST+ covers the whole of Russia and is open to all fields of education.
The programme is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish National Agency for Education (EDUFI).
Aura FIRST+ Network
Aura FIRST+ Network is coordinated by the University of Turku.
The Finnish partners are the University of Turku (UTU) and Åbo Akademi University. (AAU)
UTU partners:
Category 1 North-western Russia:
St. Petersburg State University
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
St. Petersburg State University of Economics (UNECON)
Saint-Petersburg State Chemical Pharmaceutical University
Petrozavodsk State University
Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk
Category 2 All the other parts of Russia:
Financial University, Moscow
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
Tver State University
Kazan Federal University
Udmurt State University, Izhevsk
Ural Federal University, Jekaterinburg
AAU partners:
Category 1 North-western Russia:
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Petrozavodsk State University
Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk
Category 2 All the other parts of Russia:
Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Udmurt State University, Izhevsk
Contact information:
International Officer
Kaija Kangasjärvi
incoming@utu.fi