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The Directory of Professors has been published
The Directory of Professors is a digital service that contains information about professors starting from the founding of Turku’s Old Academy in 1640. The Directory includes full professors from the universities and research institutes, tenure-track professors and those academic leaders and research institute management personnel with som…
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Meeting of the Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors, 17 May 2024
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 17 May 2024 and, among other things, discussed local collective bargaining and received a report on the meeting of the Monitoring Group of the MEC-funded Doctoral Education Pilot.
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Media releases
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Education funding must be ensured even in financially difficult times
Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s Government convenes for the government discussion on spending limits on 15–16 April. The Government’s objective for the spending limits discussion is to decide on new adjustment measures amounting to around 3 billion euro. Funding for education and research must be ensured even in financially difficult times.…
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Professor of the Year 2024, Ursula Schwab, shares studied information about nutrition in clear language
The Finnish Union of University Professors has chosen Ursula Schwab, Professor of Nutrition Therapy at the University of Eastern Finland, as Professor of the Year 2024. The appointment was announced at the Union’s public event ‘Statements from the Scientific Core’ in Kuopio on Thursday, 11 January 2024. The prize sum for Professor of the …
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Professors’ blog
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Remote or real
When I first joined the faculty in Tampere, a high-point of every working week was the institute seminar. Except when they were away at some other meeting, all PIs attended every time, and so did their PhD students, postdocs and other associates. Nobody was formally compelled to attend. They did so because that was what…
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Current issues in copyright legislation
The EU directive on copyright in the digital single market and online transmission directive were decreed as part of the Finnish Copyright Act in the manner hoped by the Finnish Union of University Professors, that is, according to the directives. The partial update of the Copyright Act was completed early last year, with the updated…
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