Cultural program
By taking part in the cultural program, you’ll get more familiar with Finnish culture and customs and get a chance to explore the beautiful Jyväskylä. The activities are led by native Finns, giving you a chance to practice your newly learned Finnish skills outside of the classroom, too!
Our course includes diverse cultural activities taking place approximately four days a week during evenings and weekends. Overall, we organize around 40 hours of cultural program activities during the course. Some of the cultural activities are included in the course fee, and some require additional payments. Our cultural program is one-of-a-kind in Finland, and it combines the best parts of Finnish summer and language learning through interesting and memorable experiences!
The cultural program is planned together with local partners. The program includes trips to nature, sightseeing, and visits outside Jyväskylä. During the course, the cultural program helps students get to know the Finnish way of life through food, culture, daily life, and other activities accompanied by natives. During the course we go to the sauna, enjoy the light summer evenings, make trips to beautiful nature and nearby cities, and a lot more.
Examples from previous years' cultural programs:
- Welcome evening, games, and getting to know each other
- Walking tour in the city center
- Language café
- Sauna evening, swimming in a lake
- Boat cruise around lake Jyväsjärvi
- Visiting local cultural sites
- Trip to another town or municipality
- Midnight sun hike to Hyyppäänvuori viewpoint
- Cooking Finnish cuisine
- Pub crawl
- Visiting local museums
- Farewell evening
All cultural activities are guided. Course participants can choose activities that they are interested in or even take part in all of them if they want to! Registration for cultural activities takes place during the course.
NB! The cultural program varies from year to year and is subject to change, e.g., due to weather conditions.
