Six teachers from Georgia visited the Turun normaalikoulu school and the Turku International School during August and September to learn more about Finnish education. On 16 September, the Finnish International School opened in the city of Saguramo.
The Finnish welfare system is a success story enjoying global admiration. However, there is one central deficit in the current welfare system: it does not sufficiently help families with accumulated disadvantages. The goal of the INVEST project’s researchers is to build a Welfare State 2.0 in which disadvantages are tackled with targeted interventions.
Turku University Library is in the process of adopting a new library system at the end of 2019. Due to database migration, library acquisition activities will be halted at the end of the year. The break also applies to departmental/unit acquisition requests.
Did you know that a large amount of technical information on inventions is never disclosed in scientific literature, but is only available in patent publications? As a researcher in a technology and innovation-oriented field you can benefit in many ways from keeping track of the patents and patenting activity in your field.
FinELib consortium’s agreement with ACS Publications (a division of the American Chemical Society) offers authors an opportunity to publish their articles under an Open Access CC BY license for free using granted credits. This means that there is no article processing charge for the author.
The University’s Intoa! Lean Business Programme is taking part in the Hacking Higher Education competition which rewards innovations that have improved the operations of higher education institutions. The competition is arranged as a part of the international Dare to Learn event, organised in Helsinki September 19–20.
The University of Turku is among the best 400 universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings published on 11 September 2019.
The proportion of young people in Finland diagnosed with depression in specialised services is increasing, showed a study based on an extensive set of national data. An increasing number of adolescents seek and get help, but the increase in service use burdens specialised services. The study was conducted by the Research Centre for Child Psychiatry at the University of Turku.
Together with Turku Science Park, the University of Turku organised a networking event at the Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki. The Vice President of Namibia participated in the event that showcased the activities of the higher education institutions, businesses and organisations in Turku. The participants also discussed future collaboration between Finland and Namibia.