Finland’s first Conferment of Degrees ceremony was held at the Royal Academy of Turku in 1643. Since then, the conferment tradition has continued in Finland without interruption and all universities…
A group of PE teacher students from the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences spent two weeks in Tanzania before Christmas. An idea for an intensive course for third-year students…
Part of her soul remains in Jyväskylä Leea Mattila, coming originally from Hollola, graduated as a psychologist from the University of Jyväskylä in 2002. At present she is working as…
We want to believe in miraculous tricks and are always looking for shortcuts to success, but with respect to the basics of training and dietary habits we are badly lost.…
Music is present everywhere and its power should not be underestimated. Have you ever walked out of the store with a completely different purchase than you were planning to buy?…
The most revolutionary thing for Matti Niskanen’s career was when he realised how the Internet will change the world. This happened in the mid-1990s when Matti, a young man from…
Merry Christmas everyone! This year JYU sends a playing Christmas card to all of us: Boxing with Grannies, a.k.a Joona, Mika, Olli-Pekka and Onni from the Department of Philosophy and…
The Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, brings the voice of research to educational and school-related discussions and debates going on in all channels.…
Many people think that communication and more precisely communicating is a natural, inbuilt skill that we, humans, learn at a very young age. Undoubtedly communicating is something we learn to…
From Jyväskylä, with pride Sami Itani graduated from JYU in 2011 with an MSc in economics and business administration. In November 2018, Itani was elected president of the Finnish…
