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A recent review concludes that in workplace health promotion, the most consistent impacts are achieved through mental health and stress management interventions, such as group-based mindfulness training.

Two Vice Deans were appointed to each of the four faculties, one for education and one for research.

Research into motivation and well-being can provide ways to shape the learning environment in a less performance-oriented direction.

Grants were awarded for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.

UEF will also significantly develop the support services available to leaders to enable professional management of leadership duties.

UEF set an ambitious objective to become carbon neutral by the end of 2025. Despite emissions decreasing, this objective will not be achieved.

Professor Kirsi Helkala, Director Marko Korhonen, Managing Director Siamäk Naghian and Senior Editor-in-Chief Erja Yläjärvi were elected to the UEF Board that will start its term of office at the beginning of 2026.

Ten researchers of the YUFE4Postdocs projects are currently doing their research at the University of Eastern Finland.

The comprehensive project ensures system-level development across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, working from the individual school level to a nation-wide scale.

A total of 11 professors from the university’s four faculties will give their inaugural lecture.