Vaasanseudun urheiluakatemia information in english

The Vaasa Region Sports Academy is one of Finland’s 19 official sports academies. The Finnish Olympic Committee coordinates the academy network, whose main function is to promote athletes' opportunities to combine sports and studies.The Vaasa Region Sports Academy is a regional cooperation network and service entity for aspiring elite athletes, elite athletes, and local sports clubs. VSUA enables the simultaneous pursuit of studies and high-level sports at the lower secondary level (grades 7–9), upper secondary level, and tertiary level.

Other tasks include enhancing daily training and providing and developing support services.The Sports Academy offers athletes various support services based on their classification/level. The support services are partially free of charge or subsidised by the Sports Academy. The Sports Academy offers some joint training sessions for athletes studying at a university of applied sciences or university. More information will be available on our website during the autumn.

Unfortunately we do not have a english application form for university student-athletes. Please make a short introduction about yourself to martin.grandell@vsua.fi (name, contact information, university, sport and highest achievements 2024-2025). Our application timeperiod will end in 7.9

At the moment there is approximately 80 VSUA student-athletes at the tertiary level from Novia, Vaasan Yliopisto, Åbo akademi, Hanken, Vaasan ammattikorkeakoulu or Helsingin yliopisto.

From now on you can find english information about the sports academy HERE

For more information in english:
VSUA managing director: Jens Wallin, 0505355499, jens.wallin@vsua.fi
Dualcareer responsible: Martin Grandell, 0408525003, martin.grandell@vsua.fi