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Funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the doctoral education pilots are reforming doctoral education at Finnish universities and fostering increasingly close ties with business and industry.

The University of Eastern Finland will hold a doctoral conferment ceremony on the Joensuu Campus on 6–8 June.

After a three-year contract as a doctoral researcher, it will be possible to apply for two-year, transitional postdoc funding.

The University of Eastern Finland will organise Sustainability Days on the Joensuu and Kuopio campuses

The University of Eastern Finland leads a unique doctoral education pilot in sustainability transformations research, which will train 40 doctoral graduates in Finland.

The YUFERING project of the YUFE University Alliance has developed ways for universities to diversify researcher assessment.

For the alumni of the University of Eastern Finland, the year 2024 kicked off with a webinar where leading experts of their respective fields talked about their careers. Nearly 400 alumni had registered for the event.

The next doctoral conferment ceremony of the University of Eastern Finland will be held in Joensuu in early June.

The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee at the Research Council of Finland has awarded approximately 1.4 million euros in funding to the SHARE-FI research project coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland.