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 ...

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

Mycelium-based composites can offer a lightweight, easily moldable, and insulating material alternative. Mushrooms instead of styrofoam In experimental laboratories and industry, great expectations ...

The key content of the Sustainability Highlights 2024 describes the realisation of the University’s first sustainability and responsibility plan. The report includes also examples of other ...

The Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires has published an annotated text corpus of some 6,000 Babylonian texts from the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. The texts have been ...

Academy Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro passed away on the early hours of 26 May 2025 following a serious illness.

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 ...

This workshop was part of ongoing work aimed at developing theories and methods for sustainability that center marginalised perspectives and challenge ableist and cisnormative assumptions in the field ...

It is commonly agreed that the first Emesal texts originate from the second millennium while Sumerian ceased to be a vernacular around 2000 BC. This leads to the somewhat paradoxical situation that a ...

University of Helsinki HY+ jointly with University of Eastern Finland and University of Turku will launch a new three-year teacher development project in Saudi Arabia starting in April 2025.

The Kone Foundation Visiting Fellowship Program for Researchers from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Southeast Asia aims to facilitate intellectual exchange between researchers across the ...

The Web of Science Research Assistant and Scopus AI are generative AI (GenAI) powered add-ons, which are already available in WoS and Scopus databases the library has acquired.