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A team of experienced teachers is working to strengthen their fellow colleagues’ skills and expertise in online and blended learning pedagogy at the University of Eastern Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland has teamed up with the University of Helsinki to develop Palestinian teacher education in universities on the West Bank and in Gaza.

The University of Eastern Finland has calculated its carbon footprint. Becoming carbon neutral by 2025 is one of the objectives of the University of Eastern Finland’s Strategy Action Plan for 2021–2030.

The funding will be used to promote research activities in areas of significance to the university, which pertain to drug development and discovery, neurosciences, the forest-based bioeconomy, and the development of technologies that make use of photonics. 

There are many teachers in the workforce whose training did not include any media education at all. The University of Eastern Finland is now filling this gap.

Altogether 17 members of the university’s management participated in the coaching and they learnt about the process and methods of service design in six joint virtual workshops and independent training courses.

At the moment, approximately 850 students from abroad are completing their Master’s degree at the university of Eastern Finland, with more than 200 Master’s degrees awarded to them every year.

The University of Eastern Finland’s Communicator of the Year Awards were announced in an award ceremony today. The selections were made by the university’s Communications and Media Relations.