News and media releases
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Meeting of the Board of the Union on 7 November 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 7 November 2025 and, among other things, approved and decided to submit the Union’s Action Plan and Budget for 2026 to the Council for approval.
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Meeting of the Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors, 10 October 2025
The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 10 Ocotober 2025 and, among other things, discussed the Union’s Budget for 2026.
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The Finnish Union of University Professors has issued Compensation recommendations for academic expert judgements provided by professors
The Finnish Union of University Professors encourages universities to adopt these recommendations and the Union members to ask for fees in accordance with the recommendations. The Finnish Union of University Professors recommends the following minimum fees: Approved by the Board of Directors of the Finnish Union of University Professors o…
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Webinar on Academic Freedom on 14 November
Professor Katrin Kinzelbach (Institute of Political Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) will give a presentation on the Academic Freedom Index with the title “Academic Freedom Index – What does it tell us about the Academic Freedom?” on Friday, 14 November from 1pm to 2.30pm. After the presentation, Professor Liisa Laakso will give a comment …
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Webinar on Academic Freedom on 14 November
Professor Katrin Kinzelbach will give a presentation on Academic Freedom on Friday, 14 November from 1pm to 2.30pm.
The webinar is in English and is intended for members of the Finnish Union of University Professors.
Communicatio Academica: Statements from the Scientific Core
Date and Time: Thursday, 15 January 2026, from 2 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Place: Cultural Centre Valve, Oulu
Free entry. Please note that the language of the event will be Finnish. Welcome!
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Professors’ blog
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The fiend that lies like truth
Most of us in the world of scientific publishing agree that the integrity and reliability of the literature is under threat from many directions. One of the most perfidious is generative AI. As it improves, it will soon be capable not just of writing a paper based around ‘real’ experimental data. It will become able…
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Dying of the light
Ever since the exodus of European scientists in the 1930s, people the world over have looked up to the US as the bastion of free enquiry and intellectual ingenuity, backed up by stalwart public support for science and academia. This is the world in which I grew up, forging part of my own scientific career…
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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).