Contact information for practical training positions
Various City of Espoo workplaces offer study-related practical training and on-the-job learning opportunities. The duration and pay of the practical training period depend on the field of study.
If you are interested in completing your practical training in a City of Espoo unit, please contact the contact person of the unit you are interested in. As a rule, practical training positions for health care and social services students from universities of applied sciences are announced in Jobiili. Early childhood education and school teachers’ practical training periods are coordinated through the students’ educational institutions. Some units announce their practical training positions in Kuntarekry(external link, opens in a new window).
Always accompany your application with your CV, description of your goals for the practical training period and information on when you would like to complete your training. E-mail addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@espoo.fi.
Education
Teacher students’ practical training periods in schools and early childhood education units are arranged directly with universities. Upper secondary education training periods and integration training language practices taking place in comprehensive schools are arranged directly with the school by contacting the principal or vice principal.
Responsibility, sustainable development and multiculturalism are part of the daily life in Espoo’s Finnish Early Childhood Education. An open and experimental atmosphere, educational opportunities, positive attitude towards digital development and a network of pedagogical experts make our work meaningful, instructive and varied. As our trainee, you get to be a part of all this! Please note that you must submit to your training unit an infectious disease survey regarding tuberculosis before your start your practical training period.
Students from universities of applied sciences:
Early childhood education practical training positions in for bachelors of social science are announced KuntaRekry(external link, opens in a new window)
Vocational education students:
On-the-job learning periods for children’s nurses, practical nurses and children’s instructors are usually coordinated directly with educational institutions. In matters related to individual trainees, please contact early childhood education expert Satu Nerg-Öhman (firstname.lastname@espoo.fi), who coordinates Finnish early childhood education’s cooperation with various educational institutions.
Integration and language trainees:
Training position application may contact early childhood education units directly to enquire for training positions. The units’ contact information is available on our website, below you will find links to contact information by area:
Swedish Education Unit:
If you are studying at the University of Helsinki to become an early childhood education teacher, class teacher or subject teacher, you can apply for practical training positions in day-care centres and schools through our partnering day-care and school network. If you are studying at Åbo Academy for an early childhood education teacher’s degree, you can apply for practical training through our practice day-care centre network.
If you are studying towards a degree in teaching at another university or would like to complete your vocational school practical training, you can contact the unit you would like to complete your training in. The contact information of City of Espoo day-care centres, schools and upper secondary schools is available at www.espoo.fi under Childcare and Education.
Administrative training positions are announced in kuntarekry.fi.
If you have general questions related to practical training in Swedish Education Unit, please contact Development Manager Ida Stolt-Haglund firstname.lastname@espoo.fi.
Downloadable files
- Download file: Communicable diseases questionnaire for students.pdf.Communicable diseases questionnaire for students.pdf
- Download file: Communicable diseases questionnaire for persons participating in integration training or a work try-out_accessible.pdf.Communicable diseases questionnaire for persons participating in integration training or a work try-out_accessible.pdf
Technical sector
Practical training positions in the technical sector typically become available for application during the early part of the year and approximately 170 trainees are selected each year. Practical training typically starts in the spring and continues in varying degrees until early autumn. Training positions are available for master of science, engineering and architecture students. In addition, several summer jobs and trainee positions are also available in real estate management, cleaning and green area maintenance. Possible training positions in building control and the environmental department are announced case-specifically at Kuntarekry(external link, opens in a new window). Below is a more detailed description of our main tasks and contact information of people you can contact for more information. If you are interested in completing practical training in the technical sector, please contact the contact persons of the sector that interests you by e-mail. E-mail addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@espoo.fi.
Engineers, designers, architects and other technical professionals work to create a functional and comfortable Espoo every day. Our large and developing city offers challenges to engineering students of various majors in the sectors of construction, property maintenance, building and automation engineering, HVAC and electrical engineering, infrastructure and geographic information. Tasks related to planning and construction are available to architecture students. As a technical professional, you will get to build a city that is visible for all residents.
- Electrical, construction and HVAC technology: Tuukka Partanen
- Design services (project preparation, design and investigations for renovation sites and indoor air issues): Kimmo Martinsen
- Town planning: (ksk.hr.@espoo.fi)
- town plan
- master plan
- traffic planning
-Construction, facility management and energy issues: Possible training positions are applied for at Kuntarekry.
The professionals of the City of Espoo Premises Department attend to the maintenance of the city’s premises and buildings and provide maintenance and cleaning services for the properties.
Please contact us: siivous@espoo.fi
Practical training positions in green area maintenance are available for the most part from March to October. Explore our units if you are interested in work tasks in street and green area maintenance (including forests, meadows and invasive species control) and development tasks that support them.
Green area maintenance: Anne Mannermaa: Anne Mannermaa (anne.m.mannermaa)
Nature management and invasive species control: Kati Tuura
Several training positions are available annually for street maintenance, planning and building of infrastructure, city surveying and geotechnology, as well as for various development tasks supporting them. The positions in question are intended for the students of educational institutions of the field and those applying to the institutions. The work tasks are tailored to meet the student’s practical training needs as far as is possible. Case-specifically, students may also get to participate in development projects and gain topics for their thesis.
Infrastructure services: Eija Frigren
Investments: Päivi Koljonen
In most years, a position for a map data processor is open for application at the geographic data unit typically at the beginning of the year, and the training is usually carried out during the student’s holiday period. The geographic data unit training position is suitable for surveying students. The tasks consist mainly of geographic data maintenance in the database and often also 3D modelling. Occasionally we may look for an engineering student for data refining work carried out with various software. Two surveying students completing their basic degree are admitted for practical training at the Field Surveying Department each year. Training tasks at the Field Surveying Department consist of various terrain work. The Real Estate Department offers one practical training positions per year for a higher education student (e.g. surveying or law students). The Real Estate Department’s application typically begins at the beginning of the year and the training is completed during the summer.
- Geographic data: Anne Kiijärvi
- Field surveying: Juho Toijanaho
- Real Estate Department: Katja Hakala
Culture and leisure
The City of Espoo’s cultural and leisure services include libraries, museums, cultural venues and youth centres. Further information about the services.
Below, you can find contact information for libraries and more information on applying for a position in youth work.
You can find more information about internships:
Youth centres, mobile youth work
Practical training positions are available to youth work students (youth and community instructors, bachelors of social science, community pedagogues). The working hours are mostly on evenings and weekends. Youth center trainee’s work mainly consists of encountering young people and planning and evaluating these encounters. Suitable candidates will be interviewed before the training position is confirmed. Apply for a practical training position for spring using this application(external link, opens in a new window) (in Finnish). Suitable candidates will be interviewed before the training position is confirmed. We will notify you within three weeks of submitting your application if we can offer you the opportunity to interview.
Ohjaamotalo, outreach youth work
Practical training positions are available to university students who are finalising their studies (bachelors of social science, community pedagogues or other applicable degrees). As an Ohjaamotalo trainee, you will participate in our customer work at Starttipiste service point and Discord. You will also get acquainted with our communication and the operations of a multidisciplinary service package. In outreach youth work, you will become familiar with individual guidance and service counselling for young people who have fallen out of education or working life. If you would like to apply for a practical training position in spring, please contact us at ohjaamotalo(at)espoo.fi or etsivanuorisotyo(at)espoo.fi
Administrative work
In addition to traditional municipal administration tasks, we offer job opportunities to lawyers, procurement and accounting professionals, as well as communication and human resources management experts.
Our administrative tasks are related to general administration and decision-making. Administrative unit include, among others, financial administration, payroll, communications, services, procurement and information management.
You may contact the contact persons listed below to enquire about practical training positions in administrative work. E-mail addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@espoo.fi.
Group administration: Tuija Kern, Jere Kunnas
Learning and education: Hanna Kilkki
Payroll: Tiina Rönnqvist, Tanja Mälkiä
Financial services (procurement, sales and accounting): Heidi Kalliola
Sustainable development: Helena Kyrki
Services: info@espoo.fi
Procurement: Victoria Susi