On the 11th of August 2025, M.Sc. Yang Liu defends her PhD thesis on Methodological and Extrinsic Challenges in Offline Evaluation of Recommender Systems. The thesis is related to research done in the ...

Unlock the power of modern database systems with Professor Jiaheng Lu’s new summer course on Multi-Model Databases!

Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki aims to solve research problems in humanities and social sciences with novel computational methods, and for studying digitalization as a phenomenon. We ...

To solve the world’s biggest challenges, we need to bring the best international minds together. Our Global Scholarship Fund provides full tuition fee scholarships and study grants for the brightest ...

In the third training package, the trainers learnt more about the pedagogical leadership and management in schools from the perspective of the competency based curriculum.

What is it like to study geometry, algebra, and topology in the MAST programme? Geometry, Algebra, and Topology are pure mathematics and essential to modern mathematical research. In the MAST ...

What is it like to study mathematical logic in the MAST programme? Mathematical logic is one of the areas of pure mathematics in the MAST programme. Students who choose the mathematical logic study ...

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 ...

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 ...

Studies have linked the high consumption of ultra-processed foods with multiple diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, and dementia. A recent international study ...

In a collaborative study led by researchers at the University of Helsinki, analysis of 900 species over a 20-year period showed that biodiversity enhances ecosystem stability and helps safeguard ...

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 ...