University of Turku

The University of Turku (UTU) is an international acknowledged, multidisciplinary scientific university. The University's seven faculties and individual departments focus on different fields of science and provide a broad-based foundation for high-quality research and training of skilled experts. With its altogether ca 21,900 students exchange students encluded and over 3,500 employees (FTE), it is one of the largest universities in Finland.

The University of Turku especially encourages creating contacts in research and post/doctoral graduate training cooperation with foreign higher education institutions and research units. Several teaching and research units of the University of Turku have been selected as centres of excellence in Finland. In research one CoE has been in Ecology, and part of this research has been carried out at the Kevo Subarctic Research Institute. Kevo is known also of its environmental and geographical research.

There is northern research mainly in the fields of biology, geography and geology, especially at the Kevo Subarctic Research Institute located in Finnish Lapland (Utsjoki) and at the departments in the main campus in Turku (departments of biology, biochemistry, geography and geology). Also in some departments of the Faculty of Humanities there are projects having strong northern dimension (e.g. in ethnology).

University of Turku is in charge of two flagships belonging to the the Academy of Finland's Flagship Programme: 

Inegualities, interventions and a new Welfare State INVEST

Innovation Ecosystem Based of the Immunde System InFLAMES

and participates in two other flagships of research

Digitaö Waters Föagship - DIWA

The Education for the Future Flagship - EDUCA

University of Turku has also coordinated the Nordic Centre of Excellence program “How to preserve the tundra in a warming climate”. This programme is a co-operation between three Nordic countries (Finland, Norway and Sweden) and eight different institutions.