Registration to the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees

Registration link 

After opening the registration form, the system will automatically reserve a spot for you for the duration of the form completion. If you do not proceed with the form within 10 minutes, the system will terminate the completion and free up the spot for the next registrant. Therefore, do not leave the form open in your browser unnecessarily if you do not intend to fill it out immediately.

Please note that places are limited. If the event is fully booked, you can register for the waiting list. If spots become available, you will receive a notification via email, after which you will have 24 hours to claim the available spot.

You will receive a confirmation to your email shortly after you have submitted your registration. If you do not receive a confirmation, please check your junk email folder just in case. You may also contact aboaevents@certia.fi.

It takes about 5–10 minutes to fill in the registration form. Read the description below on the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees and registering to it so that you have the basic information on the celebration as well as the information you need when filling in the registration form.

Registration is binding.

• The last day for registering to the event is 20 January 2025. The date by which you have to have completed your doctoral degree and the faculty must have approved it remains the same.
• Please note that the registration is binding and we do not accept cancellations to the registration of the main event after 20 January 2025. If you cancel you registration before that, 40 EUR per refund will be charged for processing costs. 
   
• PARTICIPATING: You do not have to attend to all of the events. You can participate only in the Conferment Ceremony, its rehearsal and the academic procession. You can invite guests to the Conferment Ceremony (the amount we will tell later in spring). You can attend the other events either alone or with a companion.
• Participation fees: The price information for the events is provided at the bottom of this page and on the registration form.
• REHEARSALS: When participating in the Conferment Ceremony, you also have to participate in the rehearsal.
• Volunteers will be given the opportunity to perform traditional dances at the dinners. The University of Turku offers three practice sessions for the performers in late April and early May. You can express your willingness to perform the dances by filling out the registration form.
• DOCTORAL HAT AND SWORD: You cannot participate in the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees without a doctoral hat and sword. Both are made by hand so they should be ordered in January at the latest. You can also borrow a hat and a sword. However, make sure that your hat has the emblem that corresponds to your degree and that the sword has the correct emblem as well. More information on ordering the hat and sword can be found here (More information > Doctoral hat and sword)
• CEREMONIAL CONFERMENT REGISTER: Before the celebration, the University prints a Ceremonial Conferment Register that includes the personal information of the honorary doctors and the doctors who are conferred as well as the programme of the Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees. When registering to the event, you must also fill in following personal information for the Ceremonial Conferment Register:
  
  - degree
  - year of completing the doctorate 
  - faculty
  - year of completing secondary school education (corresponding to the Finnish matriculation examination)
  - master’s degree 
  - year of completing the master's degree
  - other degrees and the year of completion
  - current position and organisation
  - title of doctoral thesis
  
  Please note that register will also be published online.

• PHOTO FOR THE REGISTER: You will be requested for a photo for the register. It is not mandatory that your photo is in the Ceremonial Conferment Register. 
  
  The photo should be a recent portrait taken in the last few years, with the subject looking at the camera. The background of the image should be calm and solid-colored, and the clothing should preferably be as neutral in color as possible. However, the subject's expression does not need to be serious; smiling is allowed.

  You can upload the photo in JPG format with the registration form. The image must be high quality and sharp, for example, 300 dpi. The longer side of the image should be at least 1000 px. Please name the file 'LastName_FirstName'.

  You can also submit the photograph later, but no later than January 20, 2025. 

• You can ask for more information by sending email to promootio(at)utu.fi
• Please note that all the events will be photographed. The pictures and videos will be shared to a public photoalbum in our mediabank, and the album will be linked to our website. Some photographs will also be published in our news articles and on our social media channels. If you do not want your photograph to be published, please contact promootio@utu.fi.

Registration requires collecting and processing personal information. See our Privacy Notices

The main event, the Conferment Ceremony on Friday 16 May:

In case you will register only for the conferment ceremony the registration fee is 60 eur/doctor. In case you will register also for the other events (the sword sharpening ceremony or the banquet and the ball, or both) the Conferment Ceremony is free of charge.

The side events:

Thursday 15 May: The sword sharpening ceremony, 85 eur/person
Friday 16 May: The service and the secular service, free of charge
Friday 16 May: The ceremonial conferment banquet and the ball, 170 eur/person

Method of payment:

• Credit card payment (Visa, MasterCard)
• Online bank payment (for Finnish/Scandinavian banks)
• PDF invoice (Terms of payment: 14 days net)
• E-invoice (Verkkolasku, for Finnish organisations. Terms of payment: 14 days net)