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The carbon footprint of the University of Eastern Finland in 2020 was significantly lower than in the previous year.

The University of Eastern Finland aims to have everything running almost normally when the autumn term starts. At the moment, there is no reason why on-campus teaching should not continue, and teachers can use their own discretion when deciding how to carry out teaching.

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has invited UEF’s Professor of English Jopi Nyman as a new member in its meeting in August 2021.

A group of Thai teachers has just completed the Media Skills in Digital Learning Environments course, on which they improved their skills related to being a teacher in this digital era.

The doctoral dissertation of Natalia Koricheva describes how preschool children aged from 4 to 7 learn English as a foreign language in the kindergartens.

Marja Laasonen has been appointed as Professor of Logopedics as of 1 June.

Alongside Finnish, English is a key language of education, research and administration at the University of Eastern Finland. From the viewpoints of the university’s profile areas and its international collaboration in research and education, Russian is also a language of strategic importance.

Older people need digital skills training to learn to use digital technology more independently, but they also seek digital training opportunities because of the social benefits they offer.

Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.