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The study explored thinking skills and possible grade-level differences therein in children attending comprehensive school in Finland. The researchers investigated 6th, 7th and 9th graders’ metacognitive knowledge in the context of mathematics.

Scientific Councils have granted a total of 10.5 million euros of funding to 9 new Academy Research Fellows and to 11 Academy Projects at the University of Eastern Finland.

The Board made its decision based on the overall assessment and comparison of the applicants.

The piloted development service was a platform for collaboration between local businesses and international students wishing to find employment in North Karelia.

The University of Eastern Finland is particularly successful in climate action, the latest THE Impact Ranking shows.

Children and young people’s understanding of artificial intelligence and AI technologies improved when the basics of AI were taught in school through hands-on activities supported by new educational technology.

12–14 June 2024, UEF Joensuu campus hosts the significant international conference Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities that addresses topics of cultural mobility and multiethnicity.

The doctoral conferment ceremony of the University of Eastern Finland culminated in the ceremonial conferment of degrees in Joensuu today. A total of 82 doctorates were conferred, 13 of which were honorary doctorates conferred upon persons chosen by the university’s faculties.

Basic science talks on early inflammatory activation in neurodevelopmental disorders were accompanied by perspectives from autistic people, educational professionals, and clinicians.

The festivities started with the Rector’s reception, followed by an event aimed at the honorary doctors in the Conferment Park, where the honorary doctors’ commemorative plaques were attached on logs of deadwood.