The mobility of university researchers is an important indicator for the internationalisation of R&D. In 2007 Finnish teachers and researchers made a total of 614 visits of a minimum of one month's duration to foreign universities. Correspondingly 1,104 foreign researchers visited Finnish universities.

The Academy of Finland had in 2007 bilateral agreements with 27 countries or regions and with 42 science and research funding organisations. On the basis of these agreements, the Academy granted around 1.5 million euros to support the international mobility of researchers. With this support, a total of 373 foreign researchers visited Finland for shorter or longer periods, and 113 Finnish researchers worked abroad for a fixed period of time. Most of the Academy's funding to international mobility of researchers is, however, channelled through project and programme funding as well as through funding supporting researcher training.

The Centre for International Mobility CIMO granted in 2007 altogether 650 grants for longer-term postgraduate studies and shorter visits, 358 of which were for foreign postgraduate students coming to Finland. The largest numbers of visitors came from Russia, Hungary and India.

A comprehensive information package on researchers' mobility and funding opportunities for work abroad is provided by the European Researcher's Mobility Portal (opened in 2004) at http://europa.eu.int/eracareers and the Finnish Researcher's Mobility Portal at http://www.aka.fi/eracareers.