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  • Meeting of the Board of the Union, 11 October 2024

    The Board of the Finnish Union of University Professors met on 11.10.2024 and discussed, among other things, the plan of activities and budgets for 2025. In addition, the Board discussed the Union’s collective bargaining objectives for the next round of negotiations and took note of publication by Akava Works Gender distribution wit…

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  • The General Meeting of the Union was held on 11.10.2024

    The General Meeting of the Union was held on 11.10.2024 – on the 55th Anniversary of the Union. In connection with the meeting, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta from Aalto University gave a presentation in Finnish titled Where does artificial intelligence live? Global political geography of data centers. The meeting elected the Union Council fo…

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  • The new Directory of Professors reflects the change in society

    The Finnish Union of University Professors has published the Directory of Professors, which contains information on the professoriate from the founding year of the Academy of Turku from 1640 to 2024. The participants include 9,200 professors or persons on the professors’ tenure track who work or have worked at a Finnish university or rese…

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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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Professors’ blog

  • An internal market for higher education in Europe?

    In March 2024, the European Commission presented its new higher education package. The package includes initiatives on a European degree, a European quality assurance and recognition system, and careers in higher education. The package builds on earlier initiatives ranging from a European strategy for universities to micro-credentials. Th…

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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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