Travels during education
Travel tickets
You will receive the travel information by email about two weeks before your education period in Lapinjärvi starts. Follow the instructions you receive.
Order your travel tickets and/or sign up for shared transportation in Omasivari (round trip).
Non-military Service Centre will process your order. You will receive your travel tickets depending on your choice either by email, by text message or to Omasivari. With the same application you can order several travel tickets.
Instructions for ordering travel tickets (pdf)
Non-military Service Centre will order a shared transportation bus from Helsinki to Lapinjärvi. Name of the bus company is Lehtimäki. You can sign up to this bus in Omasivari. You do not need a ticket to this bus, just be on time at the bus stop.
If you come from Kouvola, Non-military Service Centre’s own car will pick you up from Kouvola Matkakeskus. You can sign up to this transportation in Omasivari.
Local transport tickets
You cannot order local transport tickets in Omasivari.
If you are traveling part of the journey (more than 3 km / direction) by local train or by local bus:
- Pay the tickets yourself and save the receipts / tickets (sum and VAT share should be shown).
- Send them to: kaisa.kurek@ely-keskus.fi
- Write your name and phone number.
- Clarify the reason of your travel (from where to where and km/direction)
Travelling with the car
To have reimbursement of your travel with your car requires that there is no public transport at that time of day.
Reimbursement is paid for the part of the journey where public transport is not available to the nearest public transport station. In very exceptional travel conditions, and if there are no other means of transportation, Non-military Service Centre can, based on an application made in advance, grant the right to complete the entire journey with own car. To receive reimbursement, service person must provide an explanation of address, the route leading there with its length, public transport with schedules and the costs of the travel options.
We do not reimburse hotel nights, taxi trips, extra classes in the train, etc. If you want to overnight at your home, that is possible, but we will not reimburse your travel expenses.
You can ask your right to use your car: kirjaamo.siviilipalvelus@ely-keskus.fi
Vacation travels
Please note that by showing an electronic non-military service certificate you can get a discount for leisure travels, e.g., on the train.
Free vacation travels paid by the state are intended for travels between work service and non-military service person’s home or place of residence.
For a special reason presented by non-military service person the Non-military Service Centre may, at its discretion, also grant a travel to the following locations
- The place of residence where non-military service person has a permanent work or study
- The place of residence of married or permanent cohabitant person
- The place of residence of parent, grandparent, sibling, or child
- For the future place of residence, place of work or study, if non-military service person can show an invitation to a job interview, entrance exams, or other similar document.
Tickets may not be issued to other towns. Vacation travels may not be granted for an evening off (less than 24 hours of vacation).
