Europe specialisation studies provide a diverse, multi-disciplinary study programme that examines Europe as a whole from the perspective of area and institutions, with focus on a wide and thorough understanding of Europe as an area and phenomenon.
The Centre for Parliamentary Studies is a research unit specialized in the study of democracy, parliamentarism and the Finnish parliament. The Centre was founded in 2002 within the Department of Contemporary History. During its ten years of operating, the Centre for Parliamentary Studies has carried through numerous research projects regarding the history of Finnish parliamentarism, the historical change of the political public sphere and electoral democracy.