In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland has decided to freeze higher education and science policy cooperation with Russia and Belarus.
The Ministry of Education and Culture recommends that Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, the Academy of Finland, the National Archives of Finland, the National Repository Library, the Institute for the Languages of Finland, and CSC – Finnish IT Centre for Science Ltd  freeze both ongoing cooperation between the organisations and Russian-Belarusian partner organisations and the planning of new projects while at the same time also freezing the processing of new initiatives for cooperation between public officials of Finland and Russia or Belarus.
Finland supports the decision of the European Commission to freeze cooperation within the framework of EU training and research programmes with Russian and Belarusian partners.
All sanctions and restrictions have been imposed on Russia and Belarus as states. The policies focus on supporting Ukraine; they are not directed at Russian students and researchers.