On the 11th of August 2025, M.Sc. Yang Liu defends her PhD thesis on Methodological and Extrinsic Challenges in Offline Evaluation of Recommender Systems. The thesis is related to research done in the ...

Based on the contents of the four training packages, a joint MOOC available for all the teacher educators was established.

To solve the world’s biggest challenges, we need to bring the best international minds together. Our Global Scholarship Fund provides full tuition fee scholarships and study grants for the brightest ...

In the third training package, the trainers learnt more about the pedagogical leadership and management in schools from the perspective of the competency based curriculum.

In a collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have demonstrated that certain strains of Desulfovibrio bacteria are the likely cause of Parkinson’s disease in most cases. The study enables the screening of ...

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki, Finland set out to determine how 13 dog breeds performed in various cognitive tests. With a sample size of over 1,000 dogs, the researchers found ...

An abundance of genes has journeyed all the way from Siberia to Finland, a recent study indicates. As late as during the Iron Age, people with a genome similar to that of the Sámi people lived much ...

Studies have linked the high consumption of ultra-processed foods with multiple diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and dementia. A recent international study ...

A new technique enables the use of, for example, cooking oil from fast-food restaurants to dissolve and separate silver. The process requires light and diluted hydrogen peroxide. The technique makes ...

The key content of the Sustainability Highlights 2024 describes the realisation of the University’s first sustainability and responsibility plan. The report includes also examples of other ...

Tuore tutkimus paljastaa, että saimaannorppa on evolutiivisesti selvästi eriytyneempi kuin aikaisemmin on tiedetty. Tutkijat ehdottavatkin, että alalajin sijasta saimaannorpan tulisi olla oma ...