2024

Lehto, Teija; Rantanen, Elisa

Cross-institutional studies between higher education institutions have been administrated in Finland through different external portals for more than twenty years. Processes in external portals including various enrollment forms have caused a lot of manual work for the university staff and students. Currently the administration process of cross-institutional studies is becoming significantly easier, as the Cross-Institutional Study Information Service (CISIS) was introduced in 2023. Both students and staff can use the study information systems in their home universities to manage the cross-institutional studies. The CISIS provides a standardized way for the Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences to offer their courses, transfer enrollments and performance data between higher education institutions nationally without external portals or websites.