Keyword: University Communications

This Christmas, we will make a donation to Finnish Red Cross to help the rebuilding at the Philippines.

​Photo: Finnish Red Cross/Jarkko Mikkonen

The university will improve the interaction with its operational environment. The new independent unit, which starts its operations at the beginning of 2014, will bring together the expertise of three independent units.

​ICTEDU project supports Vietnam’s national goal of becoming a knowledge economy by the year 2020. At the University of Turku, altogether four ongoing projects funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland are involved in enhancing higher education capacity in developing countries.

​Mr Pasi Kaskinen, MSc (Agriculture and Forestry), 47, has been appointed CEO of Finland University Inc. He will start in the position on 1 January 2014.

The new members of the University Board, University Collegiate Council and Faculty Councils are now elected.

A course of the University of Turku combining major subject studies with improving language skills is great preparation for the variable situations of working life.

Ilkka Norri and Seppo Virtanen are looking forward to the Computer Network Technologies course.

The University of Turku and Fudan University, Shanghai, have started a new joint doctoral training programme. Its goal is to train specialists who can integrate knowledge and theories from several fields in order to find solutions that promote a sustainable change of cities.

EURAXESS - Researchers in Motion is a network of the European Union and about 40 European states that supports the international mobility of researchers. The University of Turku has excellent already existing prerequisites to be a service centre.

When studying at an institution of higher education, students must know how to search for information widely. Therefore, the libraries in Finnish institutions of higher education have created a joint recommendation for information literacy.

Matthew Lodge, the British Ambassador to Finland talked about the possibilities of the European Union and the different perspectives of the UK and the Nordic countries concerning the EU at the public Studia Generalia lecture.

​Ambassador Matthew Lodge enjoys staying in Finland and thinks that Finland and the UK have a lot in common.