ICT Summer School

Welcome to ICT Summer School!

ICT Summer School 2026 will be organized on 3 August - 21 August 2026.

Why participate ICT Summer School?

• Intensive Courses: Courses will provide you with knowledge and hands-on experience in a short period of time.
• Esteemed Teachers: Summer school teachers are our partner university professors or industry experts who are teaching their favorite subjects in summer school, bringing their expertise and enthusiasm to the classroom to inspire you.
• International Environment: ICT Summer School brings together participants and teachers from all around the world, creating a diverse and multicultural learning environment. You will have the opportunity to network with fellow participants, learn from their experiences, and make new friends. Participants are students from different degree programmes, exchange students and Open UAS students.
• Wide Range of Subjects: Although most courses are engineering related, some courses go beyond engineering or IT topics and cover multidisciplinary areas such as business and communication so that students from different fields of study can all participate.
• Hands-on Learning: Courses emphasize hands-on learning through practical assignments, case studies, and group projects.

Intensive week in October, 13 – 17 October 2025

This year, in addition to ICT Summer School, we also offer intensive courses in autumn semester during 13 – 17 October 2025 for example: 1) Calibration of Measurement Devices and Data Evaluation, 2) Performance and Tunning of Database Server, 3) Ethical Hacking, 4)The High Tech Start-up – Building an Idea, Refining the Idea and Taking it to Market and 5) Innovation and Technology Transfer. There is also one course, Introduction to Networking and Advanced Troubleshooting, in 10 - 14 November 2025.

These courses are available to Metropolia degree and diploma students, Open UAS students and those exchange students from partner institutions who are doing their exchange period in Metropolia during the autumn semester.

Courses will be held at Metropolia Myyrmäki campus.

Registration for the intensive week courses courses starts at the beginning of September.

Studying in ICT Summer School

In addition to course lessons, you will have assignments, exercises or project to work on in your own time. Please make sure you have time in your own schedule for these activities as well.

Learning environment for summer school courses will be the course workspace in Metropolia OMA portal, unless otherwise announced. Please follow the course workspace in OMA and your Metropolia email when the start of the course is approaching. Partner university students and Open UAS students will receive Metropolia user id and instructions to activate it after they have been registered for the course. With the user id, you can log in to OMA portal.

If a course requires for you to prepare beforehand (for example download some software), you will find information about it in the course description and in the course workspace in OMA.

Courses that are held on campus

Courses that are marked on campus will be held at Metropolia Myyrmäki campus of which you can find more information below. Please note that classroom changes are possible so check the latest classroom information a couple of days before the start of the course.

Classroom letter explanation:
- MM = Myyrmäki (campus)
- 3rd letter A, B or C = Building A, B or C
- 1st number: floor number (1st floor is the ground floor)
- 2nd and 3rd number = classroom number

Please be in the classroom on time.

Tuudo mobile app

If you want, you can download Tuudo mobile app with which you can use various Metropolia web services easily on your smart phone. For example, you will find the daily menu for student restaurant and the campus map that shows where the classrooms are located in Tuudo. Please note that you need the Metropolia user ID first to log in to Tuudo.

• Tuudo for Android at Google Play
• Tuudo for IOS at AppStore

Please bring a laptop with you. Many of the courses require for you to use your own laptop. You also need it for assignments and exercises.

Courses that are held online

Courses that are marked online are held 100 % online. To study online, you will need a computer/laptop, working internet connection, microphone and web camera.

Lessons are held online during the time indicated in the schedule and please note that the time is in Finnish time (EEST). You will find the link to online lessons from the course workspace in OMA.

Myyrmäki Campus

On-campus courses will be held at Metropolia Myyrmäki campus in the city of Vantaa.

Myyrmäki campus is located at the most populous district in Vantaa, near railway and bus station and shopping center Myyrmanni. The campus is easily accessible by the public transport.

Public transport

The area is served by Myyrmäki railway station and the Ring Rail Line network. I and P trains serve all stations along the line. I trains run counter clockwise (Helsinki-Tikkurila-Airport-Myyrmäki-Helsinki) and P trains clockwise (Helsinki-Myyrmäki-Airport-Tikkurila-Helsinki). The trains run every ten minutes Monday to Friday and Saturdays.

To find out the train and bus connections and the timetables please use the HSL Journey planner. The campus address is Leiritie 1, 01600 Vantaa.

More information

ICT Summer School is organized by the Information Technology Degree Programme.