International Agreements and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU)

Finland has cooperation agreements, programmes and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with over 50 countries. The agreements are bilateral treaties covering all the Ministry's fields of competence: education, higher education, science and research, culture, arts, cultural heritage, libraries and archives, cultural institutes, sports and youth.

No new agreements are concluded for the time being; matters are now agreed in cooperation protocols and memoranda (MoU). The agreements will be in force until they are rescinded.

Year of conclusion and, when different, year of implementation in brackets

• Austria (1978/1979) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 152kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 858kB
• Belgium (1979/1982) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 155kB , programme (Flanders)File opens in a new tab pdf 1.1MB , programme (Wallonia)File opens in a new tab pdf 712kB
• Brazil (1988/1990) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 116kB
• Bulgaria (1973) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 118kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 690kB
• China (1984) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 119kB , MoU (education)File opens in a new tab pdf 96kB , MoU (culture and education)File opens in a new tab pdf 416kB , MoU (Culture 2015)File opens in a new tab pdf 133kB , MoU (Cultural Centers)File opens in a new tab pdf 88kB ,  MoC (Education 2015)File opens in a new tab pdf 288kB , MoU (science)File opens in a new tab pdf 51kB , Letter of Intent (science)File opens in a new tab pdf 224kB , MoU (youth)File opens in a new tab pdf 749kB , MoU (Culture and Tourism 2019)File opens in a new tab pdf 179kB , MoU (sports 2020)File opens in a new tab pdf 708kB , MoU (education 2024)File opens in a new tab pdf 2.3MB
• Cuba (1982/1983) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 91kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 572kB
• Czech Republic (1973/1974) Link to an external websiteOpens in a new tabagreement, Link to an external websiteOpens in a new tabprogramFile opens in a new tab pdf 236kB
• Egypt (1983) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 88kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 502kB
• Estonia (1937/1938) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 399kB , protocolFile opens in a new tab pdf 769kB , joint committeeFile opens in a new tab pdf 96kB
• France (1970) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 242kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.7MB
• Germany (1978/1979) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 252kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 805kB
• Great Britain (1976) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 179kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 470kB
• Greece (1983/1985) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 155kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 804kB
• Hungary (1995) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 85kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 645kB
• India (1983) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 101kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 453kB , joint statement (education 2024)File opens in a new tab pdf 479kB
• Iraq (1980/1981) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 224kB
• Ireland (1985/1986) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 144kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 682kB
• Israel (1985) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 107kB , File opens in a new tab pdf 737kB programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 737kB , cooperation protocol in the youth fieldFile opens in a new tab pdf 708kB
• Italy (1976) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 306kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 975kB
• Japan (1978/1980) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 175kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 269kB
• Latvia (1996) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 152kB
• Lithuania (1998/1999) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 154kB
• Luxembourg (1994/1995) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 75kB , MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 381kB
• Mexico (1982/1983) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 56kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.5MB , MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 150kB
• The Netherlands (1988) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 201kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.2MB
• Portugal (1983/1984) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 158kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 1MB
• Poland (1973) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 164kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 578kB
• Republic of Korea (1993/1994) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 185kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.4MB
• Romania (1974) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 141kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 726kB
• Russia (1992) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 204kB , protocol (1996)File opens in a new tab pdf 390kB , protocol (2008)File opens in a new tab pdf 345kB
• Slovakia (1973/1974) agreementLink to an external websiteOpens in a new tab, programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 745kB
• Spain (1979/1981) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 175kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 847kB
• Tanzania (1988/1992) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 146kB
• Turkey (1978/1979) agreementFile opens in a new tab pdf 168kB , programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 525kB

Programme or Memorandum of understanding, MoU:

• Albania (1979) programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 378kB
• Algeria (2011) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 396kB
• Argentine (2017) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 150kB
• Armenia (2004) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 90kB
• Egypt (2021) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 24MB
• Estonia (2014) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 100kB
• Colombia (2019) MouFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.7MB
• Georgia (2019) MouFile opens in a new tab pdf 122kB
• Guatemala (2018) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 125kB
• Haiti (2014) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 945kB , MoU (in French)File opens in a new tab pdf 1015kB
• Indonesia (2015) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 112kB (education), MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 388kB (science)
• Kazakhstan (2009) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 276kB , protocolFile opens in a new tab pdf 69kB
• Malta (1989) programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 85kB
• Mongolia (1980) programmeFile opens in a new tab pdf 248kB
• Namibia (2010) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 251kB
• Oman (2023) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 141kB , MoU (in Arabic)File opens in a new tab pdf 105kB
• Peru (2024) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 324kB , MoU (in Spanish)File opens in a new tab pdf 343kB
• Republic of Korea (2019) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 109kB , (2019) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 134kB
• Saudi-Arabia (2011) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.3MB , (2012) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 237kB
• Singapore (1997) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 90kB
• Slovenia (1999) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 466kB
• Sri Lanka (2018) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 1.8MB
• Tunisia (2017) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 73kB , (2018) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 56kB
• Ukraine (2003) MoU (culture)File opens in a new tab pdf 214kB , MoU (education and science)File opens in a new tab pdf 100kB , (2024) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 2.2MB , MoU (in Ukrainian)File opens in a new tab pdf 2.2MB
• United Arab Emirates (2021) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 360kB
• Uruguay (2019) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 311kB
• Vietnam (2017) MoUFile opens in a new tab pdf 87kB

Bilateral fund:

• Denmark (1981)
• Iceland (1974)
• Norway (1979)
• Sweden (1960)
• United States (1976)