The University of Helsinki Doctoral School, in collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland, organized a two-day summer school for PhD students in health sciences from across the Nordic ...

The degree programme will educate international multidisciplinary experts, leaving room for students’ personal interests. “The Bachelor’s Programme in Liberal Arts and Sciences is the first ...

University of Helsinki and Konecranes have been collaborating since 2020 to apply computer vision and deep learning to crane navigation. Konecranes has recently made a new donation to fund the ...

Linguist and historian Filippo Pedron takes us inside the world of Elamite, a forgotten language, and shares how fragments of clay tablets are helping reconstruct a civilization’s voice.

The Master’s Degree Programme in Genetics and Molecular Biosciences invites our newly admitted students starting their studies in autumn 2025 to take a moment to explore this page and get to know us ...

The University is suspending its exchange agreements with Israeli universities, but does not intend to restrict the academic freedom of its researchers to collaborate with their Israeli colleagues.

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 ...

Magnetic stimulation therapy may assist patients for whom antidepressants are ineffective. Researchers from the University of Helsinki and Stanford University have developed more precise methods that ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...

Losing weight via lifestyle adjustments can deliver significant long-term health benefits, without the need for surgery or anti-obesity drugs. Alongside preventing diabetes, it can help ward off ...