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The new opportunities for participation can also disproportionately burden or even impose responsibilities on actors, whether citizens or authorities, who do not necessarily have the skills and resources to take on new responsibilities.

Isabell Rumrich, PhD, and Pasi Hirvonen, DSocSc, have been selected as the Prima Doctor and the Ultimus Doctor of the doctoral conferment ceremony to be held at the University of Eastern Finland in June.

The universities will decide on the reform of the scoring model for certificate-based admission in 2023. The new model will be introduced in 2026. The aim is also to increase collaboration related to entrance examinations among universities.

The general recommendation to use masks has been lifted at the University of Eastern Finland, with three exceptions following the instructions issued by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

Heli Huhtamaa defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Bern in 2017. Now, she is working at the prestigious Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, studying the effects of past volcanic eruptions.

A total of 135 Ukrainian students applied for a separate non-degree right to study at UEF. The university is also offering Open University courses to citizens of Ukraine free of charge

Doctoral Researcher Rijal Ramdani started in the University of Eastern Finland’s shared doctoral student position system in 2021 and is now finalising his doctoral dissertation on palm oil production and peatland fires in Indonesia.

Saara Koikkalainen has been awarded a SUSI scholarship in New York

Researchers working in a currently ongoing European research project have found that the reasons behind people’s support for populist movements are complex.

Doctor of Education Anniina Kämäräinen, Doctor of Agriculture and Forestry Tuomas Yrttimaa, Doctor of Health Sciences Siiri-Liisi Kraav, and Doctor of Philosophy Niko Vartiainen have been recognised with the University of Eastern Finland’s Young Researcher Award 2021.