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The Taiwanese NTU Ranking has ranked the best 500 universities in the world with bibloimetric analysis.

No one will solve the challenges of the future alone. Helsinki Challenge is a science-based idea competition and accelerator programme, where solutions for the great challenges of the world and future well-being are solved through collaboration between experts of the scientific community and society. Helsinki Challenge speeds up the implementation of the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Academy Research Fellow Kaisa Matomäki from the University of Turku has been chosen as the recipient of the 2016 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize. Matomäki will be jointly awarded with Maksym Radziwill (McGill University, Rutgers University) for their collaborative work on the average values of multiplicative functions in short intervals.

​What draws Academy Research Fellow Kaisa Matomäki to mathematics, is its exact and logical nature. – When you prove something, it is true, says Matomäki.

The process of the Brexit negotiations next spring is still a mystery, even to the experts. In addition to the United Kingdom's own decisions, the situation in other EU countries will also affect the process.

Up to 1,000 teachers from Saudi Arabia are coming to Finland to learn from Finnish school system and teaching. The first group consisting of a hundred teachers arrives to Finland in the next few months.

The new information necessitates revising the scenarios on how the enormous species richness in Amazonia has evolved and which factors define species distributions.

Speech and Language Pathology is developing rapidly and, as a result, new information that supports practical work is available for speech therapists. One mediator of the new information is the European Clinical Specialization for Fluency Disorders (ECSF) programme, whose intensive week was organised at the University of Turku. The event was also an introduction to the first Professor of Practice of Speech and Language Pathology, Kurt Eggers, who is the Coordinator of the ECSF programme.

The tuition fees for international Master's degree programmes at the University of Turku will be €8,000 – €16,000 depending on the programme. The fees are collected from non-EU/EEA students from 1 August 2017 onwards. At the same time, a new scholarship programme will be launched with the aim of supporting student recruitment and getting talented students to the University of Turku.

​Sabrina Maniscalco is the Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Turku.

The University of Turku is among 350 best universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings.