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The Academy of Finland granted us 28.6 million euros to strengthen our strategic profiling and research quality! 🙌 The three supported areas are: 🔹 Understanding the Human Brain 🔹 Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities 🔹Interdisciplinary Research for Health and Wellbeing A total of €100 million was granted to 12 Finnish universities in this sixth profiling funding round.

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Meet the teacher! In 2000, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen had just started his PhD studies in geography at the University of Helsinki. In the picture, he is at Arbat, a Moscow street that has inspired artists and dissidents for over a century. Today, Veli-Pekka is a professor in Russian environmental studies. He leads a research team that focuses on energy, natural resource and climate issues in Russia. He also teaches in the Master's Programme in Russian Studies. “The students are taught by teacher-scholars that have wide expertise in societal outreach, in addition to high-level basic research.” The applications are still open until 15 Jan 2021 to our 35 International Master’s Programmes.

University of Helsinki posted on Facebook

Timo Kalliokoski advocates for a more open and inclusive university community so that all students – and consequently, the entire society – can benefit from it as much as possible. The knowledge, connections and experience he has gained during his studies and by being active in student organisations have made him trust his own expertise.

University of Helsinki posted on Facebook

Fellowships available for life science researchers! We invite expressions of interest to apply for Horizon 2021 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships from life science researchers, who 🔹 hold a PhD 🔹 wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility 🔹 would like to conduct research with us, based in Helsinki Deadline 24.2.2021! We are a multidisciplinary research university that tends to rank among the top 100 in international university rankings. Our international academic community of 40,000 students and staff members operates on four campuses in Helsinki and in nine other localities in Finland. Did we peak your interest? Please take a closer look at our Principal Investigators looking for new postdocs to join their groups! If this is not for you, maybe you know someone in the life sciences looking for new opportunities? Tag a friend who might be interested!

University of Helsinki posted on Facebook

In memoriam: Academician, Chancellor Emeritus Olli Lehto.

University of Helsinki posted on Facebook

Meet the teacher! In 1990, Olli-Pekka Penttinen was in Berlin attending the first conference trip for his PhD thesis. The Berlin Wall had come down mere months ago, and there was still rubble near the Brandenburg Gate, where he is pictured. Today, Olli-Pekka is a biologist teaching in the Master’s Programme in Environmental Change and Global Sustainability. He is a university lecturer who investigates the effect of chemicals on the environment, and transferred his teaching to the web long before the coronavirus crisis. “Teaching has to stem from students’ needs. My aim is to offer something to everyone on the web: a variety of teaching and learning opportunities to students of different kinds.” The applications are still open to our 35 International Master’s Programmes. Apply before 15 Jan 2021.