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Welcome to Tampere

Relocation guide to Tampere

The City of Tampere’s relocation guide provides essential information for newcomers, covering topics such as moving, living, working, studying, leisure activities, and family life in Tampere.

Relocation guide to Tampere (Tampere.fi)

Support and services for settling, learning, and thriving

International House Tampere Multilingual guidance

We provide free, accessible guidance in Tampere for newcomers, offering advice on integration, local services, and daily life in over 10 languages, including simple Finnish.

Multilingual Guidance (tampere.fi)

Learning Finnish

Discover our curated list of resources for learning Finnish in the Tampere region.

Learning Finnish

Help for Ukranians - Допомога тим,хто приїхав з України

On this page, we have put together useful services and links to help you get started in your new city. Here you will find basic information about living, working, studying, health and other important things.

Help for Ukranians (in Finnish and Ukranian)

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Support for integration

International House Tampere also serves those who are not currently seeking employment. We offer guidance, support, and integration services. We serve you through an interpreter. Interpretation is arranged either in your native language or another language you understand well.

Discover the Support for integration service (tampere.fi)

International House Tampere Employment services

We are responsible for providing statutory employment services. We offer advice and guidance on employment, education, and integration. Our clients include all non-Finnish-speaking residents of Tampere. Additionally, we serve job seekers in their integration period as well as working-age clients outside the labor force in the Tampere region employment area.

Employment services (tampere.fi)

International House Tampere Integration services

International House Tampere Integration Services organizes the reception of refugees in Tampere. They support their clients in settling into Tampere and Finland, and offer guidance on authority services in the early stages of the integration process. The goal is to ensure the ease of the early stages of integration.

Integration services (tampere.fi)

Boost your career in Tampere

5 steps to boost your career and help you on your way to employment in Tampere, Finland! These five steps are designed to support especially skilled international jobseekers. The Career Boost content will benefit you if you are already living in Finland or want to move here.

The steps include tips for creating a professional profile and networking, information on employment services, and financial support to boost your career in Tampere.

Boost your career in Tampere (tampere.fi)

Higher education studies and career counselling

SIMHE (Supporting Immigrants in Higher Education in Finland) counseling is for you if you already live in Finland and have completed an upper secondary education, studied in higher education, or completed a higher education degree. SIMHE counseling offers you information on applications for higher education and related study possibilities as well as helps you recognize your prior learning. You can discuss your situation and plans with a SIMHE counselor.

SIMHE services

Check our Upcoming Events

Career Boost Workshop

International House Tampere

13.6.2025 and other event times

12.00 - 16.00

International House Tampere, Rautatienkatu 10

Welcome Home: Finland’s six largest cities invite recent arrivals to use integration services

12.2.2025 The six largest cities of Finland, Tampere included, have come together to create a warm-hearted campaign to encourage new international residents to use the cities’ many helpful services for newcomers. At the start of 2025, overall responsibility for the provision of statutory integration services was transferred from the state to municipalities.

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