As a student, You may petition yourself to receive monetary aid for your hobby. Lappeenranta Dance Institute gives discounts to semester fees; Schedule for 2026 autumn is so, that applications’ deadline is September 18th.
1. Hobby support based on the help from the City of Lappeenranta. This 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). This aid is applied for twice in a year; one round is in autumn, and the other is in spring.
2. Partial and full exemptions of the student fees directly from the Dance Institute. Apply for this form of aid with an informal application written directly to the principal via email; kaija.kontunen@lprto.fi. Student fee exemptions are granted in the beginning of a new autumn semester, only once a year.
Detailed info on both forms of hobby support here:
1. HOBBY SUPPORT FROM THE CITY OF LAPPEENRANTA
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. 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 (monetary aid) is for the autumn semester of 2026. 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.)
2. 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.
- Apply for this form of aid with an informal application written directly to the principal via email; kaija.kontunen@lprto.fi. The deadline is the same as autumn semesters hobby support, as these are granted only in the beginning of a new autumn semester, once a year.
- For this application; you don’t need to go into detail about the family’s general income level. What matters most is the motivation, skill, and enthusiasm of the dance student.
- 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
The deadline for new applications in autumn 2026 is the 18th of September.
If needed, you may ask for more information directly from our principal:
Kaija Kontunen-Forsblom: kaija.kontunen@lprto.fi , p. 040 519 4305.
You may also reach out to these other associations, for hobby support:
Balettiyhdistys Attitydi ry: Visit the homepage of Attitydi
Hope ry: Visit the homepage of Hope
Tukikummit: Visit the homepage of Tukikummit
Kela: Read more
Lions Club Lappeenranta: Visit the homepage of Lions Club
Pelastakaa Lapset ry: Visit the homepage of Pelastakaa Lapset