News and media releases
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Meeting of the Board of the Union on 21 March 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 21 March 2025 and discussed, among other things, the state of the negotiations for a new collective agreement for universities.
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HERSC: We stand in solidarity with American colleagues and students in times of authoritarianism and science denial
The Higher Education Research Standing Committee (HERSC) of ETUCE held its regular meeting in Brussels on 11–12 March. Professor Markku Vieru from the University of Lapland represented Finland and the Finnish Union of University Professors at the meeting. Photo: HERSC US solidarity resolution March 2025; As members of the Higher Education…
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Meeting of the Board of the Union on 7 March 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 7 March 2025 and received, among other things, a report on the labour market situation.
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Statement by the Finnish Union of University Professors to the Education and Culture Committee on amendments to the Act on the Research Council of Finland (Academy of Finland)
The freedom of research guaranteed by the Constitution must not be curtailed. The direction of science must be realised primarily through criticism by the scientific community itself. According to the Union, the wording of the Government’s proposal on the Research Council of Finland has failed in terms of safety, and it should be ch…
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The Spring Seminar 2025
The annual Spring Seminar of the Finnish Union of University Professors will take place in Helsinki on Friday, 25 April 2025, at 12.15-3.15pm. The theme of the annual seminar is Science-based growth and well-being. It is also possible to follow the event as a live webcast. The seminar will be held in Finnish, but the webcast will have automatically generated English subtitles.
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Professors’ blog
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Into darkness
It’s very hard to write about the current state of global science without getting sucked into the whirlpool of events in the United States that is perceived by most of our colleagues as nothing short of disastrous. However, so much has been written about it already. And by the time this blogpiece goes out some…
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The Right to be Wrong
Setting aside the growing threat to the scientific literature from outright fraud, wilful misinterpretation, undeclared conflicts of interest, low-quality peer review and malign pseudo- science, it is an inevitable fact that much of what is put into print today will turn out to be erroneous when revisited in the future. At the very least,…
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Acatiimi
Acatiimi is the member and stakeholder magazine for the Finnish Union of University Professors, the Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT) and the Union for University Teachers and Researchers in Finland (YLL).