University of Helsinki

Aarne Talman’s timely research delves into the meaning of language understanding, its measurement and the weaknesses of current measurement benchmarks.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki celebrates its 20th anniversary on 15 June, with star philosopher Martha Nussbaum as the anniversary speaker.

In February 2022, the global peace was shattered by the Russo-Ukrainian conflict that escalated into aggressive Russian invasion into Ukraine. While the situation is widely discussed in the media, not much attention has been given to the perspectives of sustainability science.

University of Helsinki's Una Europa AI in Society Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) creates critical awareness of the basics of AI and its related ethical issues as well as its impacts on different sectors of society, including justice and jurisprudence, health care, and democratic participation. The MOOC examines how society could cope with these issues, and how the societal impact and relevant values can be considered in design, implementation, and deployment of AI.

The open and free online course Ethics of AI is designed to help us understand what it means to use AI ethically, and what it requires from society and individuals. The course uses examples of practical issues from its collaboration partners.

Finland has the opportunity to give the 150 year-old National Park concept an overhaul for the 21st Century by bringing science to the forefront. The proposed Evo Science National Park is being considered by the Finnish Ministry of the Environment and could create up to 1000 much-needed jobs in the wake of the Coronavirus crisis.

Accademia Nationale dei Lincei, the oldest science academy in Italy, has granted the international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize, awarded every five years, to Academy Professor Kari Alitalo of the University of Helsinki and the Wihuri Research Institute.

In spring 1919, Finland’s regent, Baron Gustaf Mannerheim, was awarded the title of doctor honoris causa in philosophy at the University of Helsinki. To commemorate this event, the Helsinki University Museum has created the exhibition The Flame and the Sword, which sheds light on the relationship between Mannerheim and the University. The exhibition will open to the public on 27 March, at 12.00.

A new project is striving to solve environmental problems associated with drug manufacturing, consumption and disposal.

As our contemporary world is increasingly digitalized, the ethical, moral and political issues it encompasses require our immediate attention. These issues are discussed in the conference “Moral Machines? Ethics and Politics of the Digital World” on March 6th – 8th hosted by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.

Discrimination, marginalization and segregation are surprisingly common in the Nordic schools of today. Based on several years of research at 14 universities in 8 countries, a group of academic researchers recently came together with one mutual goal – to help policy makers create a more equal and equitable educational system in the Nordic countries. The result is three clear guidelines.

Lucile Turc to work on mystery waves that transmit in the near-Earth space.

Numerical simulations provide a way to link the melt at the glacier surface to the hydrology system at the glacier bed to explain the surge in Basin 3, Austfonna Ice-cap, Svalbard. This is shown in a fresh doctoral thesis on ice flow modeling of ice shelves and ice caps by Yongmei Gong from the University of Helsinki.

Accurate meteorological analysis products merge information from various observation instruments a new study shows. Erik Gregow is defending his doctoral thesis on February the 9th at the University of Helsinki. He found out that thunder lightning information is useful when we need to estimate the rain amount; he also presents new modelling results on how icing affects the wind energy.

Researchers going on a six-week long diving expedition under the Antarctic sea ice, invite media to follow and share the experience with their audiences.

The €375,000 prize for the science-based idea competition Helsinki Challenge was divided between two teams.

University of Helsinki will present 15 of the most promising research-based innovations and two new spin-out companies at the Slush event in Helsinki.

University of Helsinki launched an international science-based competition, the Helsinki Challenge, to celebrate its 375th anniversary.

The University of Helsinki reached the 76th position in the recently published Times Higher Education World University Ranking.Last year, the University ranked 103rd, so this year’s result is an improvement of 27 positions.

How can science help us in solving global challenges? The teams of the science-based idea competition Challenge has been doing his for nearly a year. The teams have come up with hands -on solutions. Join us in watching all of the 20 Helsinki Challenge competition semifinalist teams take the floor for the very last time at the Great Hall of the University on September 3rd 2015.