Language Campus news

JYU has established Finland’s first professorship of practice in teacher education. Olli Luukkainen, who has PhD in Education and the Finnish honorary title of kouluneuvos, aims to guide and jointly develop the future of teaching and teacher education.

Mikko Jäkälä, Head of Development at the Centre for Multilingual academic communication (Movi), was presented with the Language Campus Award at the 2026 Language Campus Seminar.

We are looking University of Jyväskylä teaching staff to take part in a survey on the use of AI in teaching.

Yan Wang’s doctoral research examines how teacher education systems in Finland and China produce strong outcomes through different cultural and institutional pathways.

A STEAM-focused delegation from The Education University of Hong Kong (EDUHK) visited the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER).

From 23 February to 21 March 2026, Florian Waldow visited the Finnish Institute for Educational Research (FIER)

METEOR Academy 1 at JYU

The Centre for Applied Language Studies has been involved in developing research methods for Co-Creative Citizen Science, both in collaborative projects and in the centre’s own research projects.

In March 2026, Brussels hosted the Science is Wonderful! Fair. Among the contributors were Elina Mikkilä, Hannah M. King, and Kristóf Fenyvesi.

ILE team led a session on educational wellbeing at EDUCA 2026

Mohd Zaidi, a doctoral researcher in Science Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, joined the Innovative Learning Environments research group (ILE)

Recorded on 6 February 2026, conversation with Dr. Kristóf Fenyvesi, International Coordinator of the Innovative Learning Environments research group and researcher at the Finnish Institute for Educational Research.