Records Management and Central Archives of the University of Turku
The efficient management of the University's records and information is necessary to support its core functions, to comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, and to contribute to the effective management of its activities.
Visiting address:
University Hill, Signum, Turku
Mailing address:
Registrary's Office, FIN-20014 University of Turku
Registrary's Office: kirjaamo@utu.fi
Archives: arkisto@utu.fi
Phone: +358 50 359 1729
The Registrary’s Office is responsible for providing guidance and advice on good records management practice within the context of existing University policies and guidelines, national legislation and sector-wide best practice standards.
The Central Archives is responsible for the selection, transfer and preservation of the internal, administrative records of the University of Turku dating from 1920 to the present, and for making them available for administrative and research purposes.
Certified copy of diploma
You can request a certified copy of your diploma from arkisto@utu.fi. We charge €7,50 with eventual postage for each certified copy (diploma with supplements).
> Charges for Document Requests
Ordering certified copies of archived documents
The University of Turku can provide certified copies of documents kept in its central archives. The certificate of the copy can be written in Finnish or in English, but the copy of the document itself will be in the documents original language.
The certificate will state the key facts of the original document, determined by the purpose of its use. The information given will be certified with the official stamp of the University of Turku and with a signature by a member of the University staff.
The certificate and the certified copy are certified to be in accordance with the original documents kept in the central archives of the University of Turku. The information in the original documents will not be compared with the information in any system, for example the study administration data system. If there is some mistake in the original document delivered to the central archive, that mistake will also be in the certified copy. This is why it is important, that the recipient makes sure, that all the information in the certificate, and in the certified copy attached to it, is correct.
Photos
The digitised photos of the Archives are available in The Mediabank of the University of Turku. You can download photos from the public mediabank for your own use by accepting the terms and conditions. A more extensive collection of archived photos can be accessed with the UTU user account. You can acquire these photos for your own use by filling in the order form. Information requests on photos: mediabank@utu.fi.
