How to apply for to become a peer tutor?

Tutor application period for autumn 2026 has ended on 15.2

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.

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 from the tutoring info (year 2026)

Tuutorihakuinfon tallenne (vuodelta 2025)

Lahti & Mikkeli

Recording of the info lecture (year 2026)

Slides of the info lecture (year 2026)

Kouvola

Recording of the info lecture (year 2026)

Slides of the info lecture (year 2026)