Study in the multidisciplinary programme to know Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe in a global context. The Master’s Programme in Russian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies (MAREEES) provides ...

The dissertation examines Czech–Scandinavian cultural transfers at the turn of the twentieth century. CENS PhD candidate Jana Lainto successfully defended her doctoral thesis, Scandinavian Horizons: ...

GLASSHOUSES CLOSED Wed–Fri 24–26 Dec 2025 – Christmas Wed 31 Dec 2025 – New Year’s Eve Thu 1 Jan 2026 – New Year’s Day Fri 2 Jan 2026 – Inventory Tue 6 Jan 2026 – Epiphany Open on Monday, 29 December ...

Resilience and well-being in built environments are more important than ever. Our project, "Understanding the Resilience in Built Environment (ResitBe)", focuses on how these concepts intersect, ...

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki is Finland’s most diverse faculty in terms of the organisation and ...

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 ...

Why do BMW and Audi owners often seem to drive like idiots? Is it the car that makes them behave aggressively behind the wheel, or are specific types of people drawn to such cars as well being more ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The online course designed by the University of Helsinki and a learning company MinnaLearn is free and open for everyone. It provides easy-to-understand information and practical examples on the topic ...