Keyword: Department of Management and Entrepreneurship

Already seventh multidisciplinary, international WORK2025 conference on work and working life research is organised in hybrid format on 20–22 August 2025 by Turku Centre for Labour Studies (TCLS). WORK2025 offers 18 exciting research streams, several keynotes, and breaks in between the sessions to share knowledge, research results, and to discuss new directions in research. The theme of the conference, Work in the era of unruly AI, highlights some of the most significant recent changes in working life.

How to promote highly skilled internationals' employment, entrepreneurship, and workplace inclusion in Finland? How to make their voices heard in policy making, service development, and workplaces?

Join our Open Forum livestream on September 12 from 13:00 to 15:00 to hear our policy recommendations for these challenges!

The Entrepreneurship Unit's Annual Report for 2023 has been published. Find out more about the activities of the unit and its staff in research, teaching and social interaction by clicking on the link below.

>>> Annual Report of Entrepreneurship 2023 (pdf)

University of Turku, School of Economics has lead and co-ordinated a 3,5 year Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE) project funded by the Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission. The multidisciplinary DISCE research project investigated what are inclusive and sustainable creative economies and how they can be developed in Europe.

The DISCE – Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies - project is coming to an end in June 2022. On the 3^rd of March 2022 DISCE Final Event took place in a hybrid format. The event summarised and presented the project's findings and discussed preliminary policy recommendations with the EU officials and other stakeholders.