As many stories as arrivals
International staff at universities cannot be lumped in as a single group. People have very diverse experiences of organising their academic careers and the rest of their lives in a foreign country.
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Science is a community effort
Media and communications researcher Veera Ehrlén believes that science is created together. She works with Young Academy Finland to build a community of researchers where expertise is shared, the voice of science is boosted, and research is made socially visible.
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Who owns the copyright to my research article?
In Finland, the copyright to a research article principally belongs to its author or authors.
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Where will the working hours trial lead?
The new model agreed upon in the additional collective agreement protocol drawn up in 2025 is raising concerns over increased working hours for teachers. The Tampere University and University of Lapland are heading into trials.
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Finnish, English, or Finglish?
How can university people foster the national languages in the science community’s daily life, staff rooms and lecture halls? And could the use of native language fight anti-science sentiment?
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Freedom of research or safety?
Geopolitical tensions creep their way into the work at higher education institutions as well. Freedom of research should not be restricted in the name of safety – it is especially important to protect right now.
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Professor of the Year 2026 Jani Erola: Promises and limits of education
Professor of the Year 2026 Jani Erola is also one of the fifteen recently appointed Research Council of Finland Academy Professors. His new project studies the connections between increased level of education, job market changes, and new technology in social inequality.
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The shop steward safeguards the rights of union members
Employment in academia can be like a jungle. The field is known for its repeated fixed-term contracts and juggling different tasks. Shop stewards help guide university employees through this jungle.
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Difficult subjects in teaching – what is a teacher allowed to say?
University atmosphere determines what a teacher is able to say when teaching and what is kept quiet. According to several researchers, these subjects have changed in the last decades.
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The Academic of the Year Timo R. Stewart: Researchers’ role in public in need of discussion
Intentional misunderstandings, hate speech, silencing attempts. Academic of the Year, researcher and non-fiction writer Timo R. Stewart has had to witness these over the course of his career. In his opinion, a researcher conducting science with public funds plays an important role in social discourse.
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A researcher must not be left alone in a harassment situation
Harassment and coercion threaten the work of researchers and other experts. To ensure their freedom of expression, coordinated cooperation from the research community is required, both domestically and internationally.
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Fragile freedom
The Trump administration is cutting research funding and compiling lists of banned words. But Europe is not free of threats against science either.
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Raising the higher education rate is Finland’s trump card for the future
Minister Mari-Leena Talvitie’s goal is to open the doors of higher education institutions to at least every second young person. By increasing RDI funding, she wants to secure a strong capability to innovate for Finland in the future. At the same time, she is aware of the difficulties of increasing the education level and research funding.
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Certainty about the future would convince to stay
Finland wants more academic experts from abroad, but many of those who move here depart after a few years. What could be done differently?
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