Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network tests a cross-institutional studies service (RIPA)
Enroll in the following courses in your home university's SISU and the credits will automatically appear in your home university's SISU without the need for a credit transfer application:
Aalto University
- All the period 4 and 5 Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network courses
University of Helsinki
- All the period 4 Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network courses
Hanken
- All the period 4 Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network courses
- Please click on the link for the list of the Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network courses
- You can filter the courses by the university, the academic period etc.
Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network
Testing of cross-institutional studies service (RIPA) connecting universities' SISUs
The Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) Cooperation Education Network includes the Bachelor's, Master's and PhD programs in Economics at Aalto University, the University of Helsinki and Hanken University, as well as the Bachelor's program in Environmental and Food Economy (YET), the Master's program in Agricultural, Environmental and Environmental Resource Economy (AGERE) and the PhD program in Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources (AGFOREE) at the University of Helsinki. Students in these economics programs can take economics courses at the GSE member universities mentioned above. Masters and PhD students in other disciplines can also take courses offered by the network by applying separately: the link to the application form can be found here. Once you have received notification of your right to study in the network, you can follow the instructions below.
The Helsinki GSE Cooperation Education Network will start testing the so-called cross-institutional studies service (RIPA), through which the GSE member universities can share information about courses and transfer students' personal data to enable cross-study and course enrollment. In practice, this means that as an economics student, you can enroll directly in an economics course organized by another GSE member university in your home university's SISU. Students from other disciplines can also study in the Helsinki GSE network: first apply to join the network and then enroll in a course in your home university’s SISU. When you enrol, you will be granted a study right at the target university and you will receive a user ID (unless you already have an ID for university in question). With the username you can log in to the learning environment (MyCourses/Moodle) of the target university. Once you have completed the course, your achievement will be transferred to your home university's SISU and you can add the course to your own study plan. You can find more detailed instructions below.
Instructions
Before the course starts
- Check your study guide to see where in your degree you can place your studies.
- Links to degree structures can be found here: https://www.helsinkigse.fi/studies/credits
- All the courses offered by the network are listed here: https://www.helsinkigse.fi/studies/courses
- You can register for a course in your home university’s SISU.
- Search for courses using the search function: select a university or the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics network from the filters.
- You don't have to add the course to your study plan to register for it.
- Once you have registered for a course, you will be granted a study right at the target university.
- By registering for a course, you agree to the transfer of your personal data to the target university.
- Links to the university privacy notices can be found here: https://www.helsinkigse.fi/studies/enrollment#privacy-notice
- With the right to study, you will automatically be generated a username for the target university:
- You will receive an automatic message from Aalto University about the generation of your username, if you do not already have a username, activation instructions can be found here: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/activating-an-aalto-user-id?check_logged_in=1
- From UH, you will receive an automatic message about the generation of a user ID, even if you already have UH’s user ID, activation instructions can be found here: https://helpdesk.it.helsinki.fi/en/instructions/logging-and-connections/user-account/activating-new-username
- Hanken system does not send you a notification about the generation of your username: if you do not yet have a username, activate it according to these instructions: https://www.hanken.fi/en/it-services/user-ids/start-using-your-user-id
- You will need a username to log in to the learning environments of the target university, see below for more information.
During the course
- The course schedule can be found in your home university's SISU or in the target university's SISU, under the Completion methods tab -> Lecture -> Groups and teaching times
- Course material can be found in
- Log in with the username of the target university, for more information on logging into the learning environments click here.
After the course
- Once a course has been completed, there is no need to apply for a credit transfer
- The completed credits will appear in your own SISUs, under "My studies”
- You can add a course to your personal study plan in free edit mode > "Add completed course" > apply for a separate approval for the whole course.
Need help?
Need help with RIPA registration? Have a problem? Help is available at:
- Aalto: opiskelijapalvelut@aalto.fi
- the University of Helsinki:
- Hanken: sisu-student@hanken.fi