ISIC and ITIC cards

ISIC Student card can be applied for by every at least 16-year-old

• student, studying full or part-time
• tudent, studying in a distance learning programme
• student on academic leave
• student of open universities, completing a confirmed Bachelor’s, professional higher education, or Master’s curricula.

ISIC Student card cannot be applied for by: external students, interns, residents.

Ordering a card

• in Internet bank, if you are a client of SEB
• on the homepage , if you are not a client of SEB. In this case, an account will be opened for you when you collect the bankcard at the bank office.

To order the card, the following is required

• personal data
• a file of coloured photograph in a format suitable for documents

To order the card at a bank office, take along

• identity document (passport, ID card or driving license)
• coloured photograph in a format of a document
• valid student card (or a certificate from the school to verify the student status)

To receive the card at a bank office, take along:

• identity document (passport, ID card or driving license)
• valid student card (or a certificate from the school to verify the student status)

All young people aged 18-25 years can join theSEB Youth Plan.
The monthly fee of Youth Plan is EUR 0.32, which includes an ISIC card with no service fee and free payments.

• Join the Youth Plan

To order the card, the following is required

• personal data (both, of the child and the parent, when ordering for a child up to the age of 18)
• a file of coloured photograph in a format suitable for documents

Every at least 6-year-old pupil of a general or a vocational education school can apply for an ISIC Scholar bankcard.

If the child has no Internet bank, but you want a separate account for the child, you can order the card at a bank office.

To order the card at a bank office, take along

• identity document (passport, ID card or driving license) (identity document of the child and parent when ordering for a child up to the age of 18)
• coloured photograph in a format of a document
• valid student card (or a certificate from the school to verify the student status)

Receiving the card at a bank office

• The card of a 6-14-year-old is received by the parent.
• A 15-17-year-old must identify themselves in person at a bank office, however the parent will sign the bankcard agreement.
• Take along:
  • identity document (passport, ID card or driving license) (identity document of both, the child and parent when picking up the card of a child up to the age of 18)
  • valid student card (or a certificate from the school to verify the student status)

You can obtain an ITIC Teacher card, if you

• are engaged in pedagogical work (in terms of the Education Act) in an educational institution that has an education licence issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Estonia or in a social welfare institution and your workload of teaching is at least 18 hours per week or assigned as a full-time job;
• you are a member of Estonian Education Personnel Union.

The following employees of educational institutions are entitled to an ITIC Teacher card

• general education schools: teachers, principal, principal of studies, hobby group leader and other persons engaged in the field of study and education*
• vocational schools: pedagogues (persons, engaged in studies*, principal)
• institutions of higher education: academic staff (professors, docents (associate professors), lecturers, assistants and teachers), scientific staff (researchers and senior researchers)
• pre-school child-care institutions: pedagogues (manager, deputy manager in study and education, teachers, special education teachers)
• hobby schools: music and art schools; language schools; sports schools; technical-, nature-, creation- and hobby houses and - centres; and other educational institutions, with education license issued by the Ministry of Education, however not listed above
• pedagogues*, school managers

*The following specialists engaged in the field of teaching and education are considered to be teachers: teacher, academic staff, speech therapist, special education teacher, school psychologist, educator, methodologist, hobby group leader, hobby manager, trainer-teacher, accompanist, instructor.

Ordering a card

• in Internet bank, if you are a client of SEB
• on the homepage, if you are not a client of SEB. In this case, an account will be opened for you when you collect the bankcard at the bank office.

To order the card, the following is required

• personal data
• a file of coloured photograph in a format suitable for documents

To order the card at a bank office, take along

• identity document (passport, ID card or driving license)
• coloured photograph in a format of a document
• a certificate from the school, evidencing your engagement in academic work and the workload or a certificate issued by a representative of the Estonian Education Personnel Union, confirming that you are a member of EEPU.

To receive the card at a bank office, take along:

• identity document (passport, ID card or driving license)
• a certificate from the school, evidencing your engagement in academic work and the workload or a certificate issued by a representative of the Estonian Education Personnel Union, confirming that you are a member of EEPU.

Read more about debit card conditions

Extension of the right to use the card

We issue ISIC and ITIC cards in cooperation with the Federation of Estonian Student Unions. As the ISIC student card and the ITIC teachers’ card prove the academic status of the cardholder all over the world, it is important for the cardholder to have the academic status required for having the card.

At the beginning of the academic year, a few months before your ISIC/ITIC card expires, we will check whether you are still in the list of the Estonian Education Information System (EHIS). If you have the required academic status, we will issue a multiannual extension card automatically.

However, as students/teachers may stop studying/teaching before the expiry of the card, we will also check the academic status of the cardholder from EHIS in February of the second year of validity of the card.

If, according to the data in EHIS,

• you are still studying/teaching, your ISIC/ITIC will remain active for another year and a fee for the second year of use (the service fee for the extension of the right to use the card) is debited from your settlement account;
• you are no longer studying/teaching, we will notify you of the term of cancelling the card and issue you a Mastercard contactless debit card without charge.

If you have received a notification about the cancellation of your bankcard but you are still studying/teaching, please provide a document from your school certifying your status as well as an application for a new ISIC/ITIC at a branch of the bank or via the Internet Bank (electronic certificates can be sent to ).

ISIC and ITIC card in public transport

Starting from 1 January 2013, you can use SEB ISIC Tudeng (Student), SEB ITIC Õpetaja (Teacher) and SEB ISIC Õpilane (Scholar) bank card to prove your right to travel and receive benefits in the united ticket system of the public transportation system.

NB! The public transport function does not extend to the SEB ISIC Õpilane Electron bank card (it bears the VISA logo).

In order to use it as a ticket, the card holder must have an Estonian personal identification code.*

To use your ISIC or ITIC card in the public transportation system, take the following steps:

1. Activate the card. Every bank card must be activated before use. If you receive your card from a branch, the client executive will activate the card for you at the bank. If the card is sent to your home by post, you can activate the card in the Internet Bank or an ATM. In public transport, you can use the card the day after activation. If your card has already been activated, go to the next step.

2. Register the activated card. To do so, open on the United Tickets webpage menu item “Ühiskaart → ISIC cards” and enter your identity code. All active cards found in the MinuKool database linked with the entered personal identification code will be registered in the ticket system at once. You do not need to register a renewal or substitute card again. A card registered in the ticket system may be used until the end of the term of validity of the card, except in case the status of the user being a student or teacher ends or the user closes their bank card before the end of the term of validity printed on the card. In such a case the card is deactivated and a notice thereof will be automatically sent to the ticket system. You will find the list of your valid and activated cards upon logging in to the ticket system.

3. Buy a ticket. The cards linked with the ticket system function similarly to the green Ühiskaart. Tickets can be bought onto the card by personal identification code at the website www.pilet.ee , over a mobile phone or from a sales outlet (a list of sales outlets can be found here). You can purchase personalised public transport tickets with various terms of validity onto the card and verify your right to travel benefits (for example, free right to travel).

* If a foreign student has been issued an Estonian identity code after receiving the card (the card contains a foreign identity code or date of birth), a new card with an Estonian identity code should be ordered to be used as a transportation card.