How to apply for to become a peer tutor?

Tutor recruitment 2026 is now open and students can apply by filling out a webropol application form. The recruitment is open for new and returning tutors! Apply by 8.2.2026.

The link to the application form: https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2FB0CEA923A509BD 

We are looking for peer tutors for incoming international exchange and degree students and for Finnish students for each academic year. 

Degree student tutors will be interviewed and selected by the faculties/degree programmes in February/March. Exchange student tutors will be interviewed and selected by LUT First-Year Experience team in February/March. The results will be sent to all the applicants by e-mail in March.

Info lecture about applying to be a tutor will be held in early February:

Lappeenranta Campus: 3.2 at 14.00-16.00 (info for international tutoring at 14.00-14.45) in class 7343.

Lahti Campus: 3.2. at 14:00-15:00 in class M19_A122

Kouvola: 4.2. at 14:00-15:00 in class P1027

Mikkeli: 3.2. at 14:00-15:00 remotely via Teams. Link to the Teams meeting.

There will also be organized pop-up Q&A sessions, where you can meet the staff and ask any detailed questions about tutoring.

Lappeenranta Campus: TBA

Lahti Campus: 5.2. at 13:30-14:30 in Campus Community Space (room M19_D246)

Questions?

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the student services. Contact persons of each city is listed below.

• Lappeenranta: Tutoring secretary Roosa Broman (tuutorointisihteeri@lut.fi) or LUT Welcome Team leader Tanja Karppinen (tanja.karppinen@lut.fi).
• Lahti: Meerimaria Ketokulta (meerimaria.ketokulta@lut.fi) or Liam Hallanoro (liam.hallanoro@lut.fi).
• Kouvola: Anna-Maija Wörlin (anna-maija.worlin@lut.fi)
• Mikkeli: Tiina Rissanen (tiina.rissanen@lut.fi)

Tutor training/International Student's Peer Tutoring course

Students chosen to be peer tutors need to take part in tutor training. International Student's Peer Tutoring course is held in spring, in the fourth period. The training is compulsory for all peer tutors, and students who do not take part in the training will not be able to tutor in the coming academic year, starting in late August. If the tutor has taken part to the training previous years the training is not needed.

In the training the tutor will get tools for leading an international group of students, learn the tasks of the international tutor and get familiar with the services for international students. In addition to this the training includes lectures on themes like cross-cultural communication, motivation, and time-management.

In the end of the autumn semester, in November/December, tutors will return a tutoring report and feedback questionnaire and receive the tutoring payment in the end of the year. When the course requirements are all fulfilled, tutor will also receive 3 ECTS for elective studies in subsequent January.

Tutoring payment

Tutoring payments for international tutors from January 2025 onwards: It is 150 € per tutor + 25 € per tutee with international background + 10 € per tutee with Finnish background. The background is determined by the tutee's living country when applying to program. The maximum payment is for the group of ten tutees. If a group reaches over 15 people, there is an additional 50 euro payment.

Materials of the introduction to international tutoring

Lappeenranta

Slides of the info lecture (year 2023)

Tuutorihakuinfon tallenne (vuodelta 2025)

Lahti, Kouvola & Mikkeli

Slides of the info lecture (year 2025)

Recording of the info lecture (year 2025)