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UEF is opening applications for its international degree programmes due to increasing demand for immediate study opportunities in Finland. The supplementary application round is open from 30 May to 13 June 2022.

As a politician with a background in research, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Maria Ohisalo has demanded that decision-making be better informed by research. She will be attending the doctoral conferment ceremony in Kuopio.

The Saastamoinen Foundation has donated EUR 100,000 to the University of Eastern Finland for grants for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.

Practising ethics of care in social entrepreneurship has immediate and long-term impacts on sustainability.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society granted funding for new Academy Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

The new opportunities for participation can also disproportionately burden or even impose responsibilities on actors, whether citizens or authorities, who do not necessarily have the skills and resources to take on new responsibilities.

Isabell Rumrich, PhD, and Pasi Hirvonen, DSocSc, have been selected as the Prima Doctor and the Ultimus Doctor of the doctoral conferment ceremony to be held at the University of Eastern Finland in June.

The universities will decide on the reform of the scoring model for certificate-based admission in 2023. The new model will be introduced in 2026. The aim is also to increase collaboration related to entrance examinations among universities.

The general recommendation to use masks has been lifted at the University of Eastern Finland, with three exceptions following the instructions issued by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

Heli Huhtamaa defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Bern in 2017. Now, she is working at the prestigious Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, studying the effects of past volcanic eruptions.