As a student, You may petition yourself to receive monetary aid for your hobby. Lappeenranta Dance Institute gives discounts to semester fees, based on the help from the City of Lappeenranta. Schedule for 2024 Autumn is so, that applications’ deadline is September 23rd.
The monetary aid for dance students of our Institute comes from the City of Lappeenranta. You may petition to receive said monatary aid by filling out a form: CLICK HERE (in Finnish) (download the form to your device, fill it in, and send it to us either as a .pdf-document or printed).
All applications for the monetary aid must be either sent to our principal to the email harrastustuki@lprto.fi or sent to our student office as printed copies (deadline for Autumn 2024 is September 23rd). The principal of the Lappeenranta Dance Institute makes the decision on the division of the monetary aid. The application and all information regarded in it are confidential, and the principal is responsible for the privacy protection and handling of the applications.
The schedule for decision-making goes hand in hand with the decisions made in the City Counsil, and we try our best to inform all applicants with the up-to-date information.
HOBBY SUPPORT FROM THE CITY OF LAPPEENRANTA
Hobby support (monetary aid) is for the Autumn semester of 2024. The criteria for applying for this hobby support are as follows:
1. You must live in Lappeenranta, and be under 18-years of age.
2. You must be a continuing or new member in a hobby group/ sports club/ registered society which has a deal regarding the hobby support with the city.
3. The hobby support can be granted for one hobby at a time, and only for it’s basic costs per child per year. Hobby is seen as something that has regular training sessions either weekly or periodically.
4. The hobby support can be granted by semester fees, or monthly fees, or season fees – whichever are most realistically calculated.
5. The hobby support can be a maximum of 50 € in a month per child, while also a maximum of 600 € in a year per child (In the Dance Institute this means 300 € per semester).
6. When assessing the applicants qualifications for this monetary aid, the general income limits for “low income” are used.
7. If the general income limit isn’t low for the applicant, they may rationalize applying for the hobby support because of loss of job, single parenthood, or other financial challenges.
(Translation of the criteria is made by the Dance Institution. If there is any confusion, please check original criteria by the City of Lappeenranta, which are in Finnish.)
LAPPEENRANTA DANCE INSTITUTE ALSO OFFERS PARTIAL AND FULL EXEMPTIONS OF THE STUDENT FEES – a few each year
- Lappeenranta Dance Institute rewards a few of its motivated and enthusiastic students by granting them exemptions of student fees. Students may apply for these exemptions at the beginning of the Autumn semesters.
- When you are granted an exemption of student fees, it usually means for both Autumn, and Spring semester of that year.
- All students of the Dance Institute can apply for this, your hometown/address doesn’t matter. This grant is an option to children and teenagers/young adults.
- The two kinds of student fee exemptions are: a full exemption (which means the full semester fee) and partial exemption (which means that your semester fee is -50 %).
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To apply for either one of these two monetary aids (Hobby support from the City, or for a student fee exemption), send your application to the email harrastustuki@lprto.fi, or print it out and bring to the student office (deadline is September 23rd).
If needed, you may ask for more information directly from our principal:
Kaija Kontunen-Forsblom: kaija.kontunen@lprto.fi , p. 040 519 4305.
