Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon is organized on 20 – 29 May 2026 at the University of Helsinki. The event brings together students and researchers of humanities, social sciences and computer ...

Professor Marko Hakovirta has been appointed as the new CEO of Helsinki Innovation Services Ltd, the technology transfer company of the University of Helsinki. He will take up his new position at the ...

The main event organized by the Finnish Society for Childhood Studies is the annual/bi-annual Childhood Studies –Conference that was organized for the first time in 2009 in Tampere, Finland. The next ...

Each quarter, HELSUS supports a workshop designed to increase the capacity of Early-Career Researchers (ECRs). Workshop ideas are co-created by ECRs, and HELSUS and RESET coordinators then help with ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Viikki Wood and Forest Innovation Hub hosts together with Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) the Nature and Forest Pitching Competition in Y Science 2025! Bringing forth the value of ...

A new genetic study carried out at the University of Helsinki and the University of Turku demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, ...

The new Ethics of AI course helps public administration, businesses and the general public understand what the ethical use of artificial intelligence means and what it requires from both society and ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki discovered how plants heal their protective outer layer, the periderm. The diffusion of ethylene and oxygen through a wound triggers repair – a finding with ...

Microplastics, tiny plastic particles pervasive in agricultural environments, interact with and disrupt the microbial ecosystem in the rumen – the first stomach chamber of cattle, reveals an ...