Tenure Track of the UEF
The Tenure Track of the University of Eastern Finland offers the university's most accomplished researchers a swift career advancement path that is based on personal qualification.
The Tenure Track is transparent and it supports the career development of accomplished researchers. In principle, members of the UEF teaching and research staff have extensive opportunities to enter the Tenure Track; however, in practice, only a limited number of highly accomplished researchers will be offered the possibility to enter it. Positions can be opened at different levels of the Tenure Track and it is possible to define, for example, an associate professor position as the entry level.
Four-stage research career model for the teaching and research staff
The four-stage research career model of the teaching and research staff is a general model which is applied to all members of the University of Eastern Finland teaching and research staff and which defines the hierarchy of positions and career advancement opportunities. The career model for research positions comprises four stages, and the career model for teaching positions three. As a rule, all positions involve both teaching and research. Career advancement within the four-stage research career model is based on merits. Teaching and research positions can be filled through competition based on public notice of vacancy, or through a procedure which is based on expert statements.
UEF doctoral researcher positions
The doctoral programmes of the University of Eastern Finland invite applications for doctoral researcher positions on an annual basis. Approximately 150 doctoral students work with this funding as doctoral researchers at our university every year. The UEF doctoral researcher positions are salary-paying positions, enabling the doctoral researchers to engage in full-time study with an objective to complete the doctoral degree in four years' time.
Doctoral researchers completing their doctoral degree at the University of Eastern Finland are able to apply for the UEF doctoral researcher positions. The maximum duration of the doctoral researcher positions is four years. The persons selected will be hired as doctoral researcher by the University of Eastern Finland.
The UEF doctoral researcher positions may be applied for by persons already are enrolled as doctoral researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and by persons planning to complete their doctoral degree at the University of Eastern Finland.
The call is open for applications opens in spring. More information and instructions for applying on Open positions webpage.
Shared doctoral researcher position system
UEF's shared doctoral researcher position system is designed to develop our doctoral education in a manner that makes the expertise of our newly graduated doctors extensively available to business and industry, as well as to society at large.
The main duty of doctoral researcher working in the doctoral programmes of the University of Eastern Finland is to complete their doctoral research in accordance with their approved research proposal. Selected doctoral researchers will be working full-time: they will have a parallel 50% contract of employment with the University of Eastern Finland and with another employer.
Further information on doctoral researcher positions on UEF's open positions.
As a grant-based researcher at the UEF
When working as a grant researcher in the University of Eastern Finland, there are two types of agreements available depending on the time of the grant period.
The grant-funded researcher with a funding shorter than 12 months can conclude the grant-funded researcher's agreement with university. In the agreement you can conclude a grant researcher agreement to conclude about doing your research at the university and what resources are available to you (e.g. the university’s equipment, facilities and other resources). The agreement gives you the access rights assigned to the UEF user account. These include rights to O365-environment, e-mail address, rights to campus and Moodle logins.
The university offers grant researchers an opportunity to conclude a part-time (10%) contract of employment for everyone who has an external funding of at least 12 months and meets other criteria listed on Kamu website. The contract of employment entitles the grant-funded researcher to an office space when necessary, necessary tools for work (Microsoft O365), including a phone, a user account to the university’s information systems and research databases, and occupational health care and insurance coverage (for the 10% contract of employment).
Find more information for grant-funded researchers on Kamu website.
Salary system for universities
The salary system of the Finnish universities comprises two separate evaluation systems: an evaluation system for the teaching and research staff, and an evaluation system for the administrative and auxiliary staff. In addition, a separate evaluation system is in use for the teaching staff of the teacher training schools.
In the salary system of the Finnish universities, the salary is comprised of the job requirement component (job requirement level) and of the personal performance component (personal performance level). In addition, the employer may pay a job requirement bonus and/or a performance bonus.
When a new person starts at the university, the personal performance component is initially determined at a level that is estimated to correspond to the person's qualification, work experience and previous performance. As regards entirely new positions, the employer makes an initial assessment of its job requirement level. The job requirement level and the personal performance level are evaluated in six months of the beginning of the employment relationship at the latest.
The evaluation system and the components of the salary are defined in the General Collective Agreement for Universities.