The working areas on the 7th floor will be unavailable on the day of the event. The Gradufest, organised now for the second time, will take place on Wednesday, 11 February, at 13-19 on the 7th floor ...

ExpREES – your route to become an expert in Eastern European, Russian and Central Asian and Southern Caucasus Studies. Are you enrolled in a Finnish university? Would you like to specialise in Eastern ...

When copper appears, azurite might be hiding in plain sight. From the last fragment to the final charter, the dataset is now complete. At the National Library of Finland, medieval manuscripts are ...

Renovation work has begun in the commercial premises on the 1st floor of Kaisa House. The noise disturbance caused by the work will be at its peak from Friday, 6 February, 2026. Renovation work is ...

The University of Helsinki’s top research areas draw together our strengths in research. Their themes also feature ...

The Doctoral Programme in Molecular and Cellular Systems of Life (MaCS) is an international doctoral program providing structured training in life science areas requiring multidisciplinary skills and ...

Promoting the welfare of medical alert dogs is essential for sustaining effective, long-term human–animal partnerships. Through research and collaboration, we seek to advance a more balanced and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An experimental study coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed, for the first time in the world, that the immune system of daycare children of three to five years improved ...

Researchers at the University of Helsinki have succeeded in something that has been pursued since the 1970s: explaining the X-ray radiation from the black hole surroundings. The radiation originates ...

The method is based on a recyclable filtration fluid consisting of a superbase-alcohol compound. One gram of the new compound can absorb 156 milligrams of carbon dioxide. A new method to capture ...