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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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Media releases
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If implemented, the layoffs at Åbo Akademi University would be a wet rag on the face of the university community – they would not bring a long-term solution
The change negotiations at Åbo Akademi University have ended in disagreement. According to the negotiation proposal, the university is considering an organisational reform and the redundancies of approximately 50 people in order to balance the finances in the longer term, as well as laying off the entire staff in order to reduce costs of …
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Professor of the Year 2025 Heidi Kuusniemi prevents satellite positioning jamming
The Finnish Union of University Professors has chosen Heidi Kuusniemi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vaasa, as Professor of the Year for 2025. The nomination was announced at a Union event during the Science Forum in Helsinki on Thursday, 9 January 2025. The award amount for the Professor of the Year is…
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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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