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Significant funding from Business Finland for Research into Fun and Engagement

Business Finland has granted funding to a research project by the Universities of Turku and Jyväskylä entitled FUNMERSIVE – Transformative and scalable customer engagement through immersive fun.

Dissertation: Teacher stress and work engagement are reflected in classroom interactions (Chan)

Teachers’ experienced stress, burnout, and work engagement are associated with the emotional support, instructional support, and classroom organization that students receive during teaching situations in Finnish comprehensive schools.

Interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability transformations – register to the Wisdom Days conference!

Wisdom Days: Science for Sustainability Transformations takes place in Jyväskylä on 6-8 May, 2026. Registration is open until 20 March - join the event to discuss sustainability transformations and build new, multidisciplinary collaborations.

Pilvi Peura, Olli Tyrväinen ja Sari Hietamäki

What did you research today? Three perspectives on social development

We asked Olli Tyrväinen, Sari Hietamäki, and Pilvi Peura what they were working on the moment. Research on technology markets, democracy education, and pedagogical support is providing information to aid decision-making.

Everyday digital work practices can support learning (Karhapää)

A recent doctoral thesis from the University of Jyväskylä shows that appropriate digital work practices can significantly support learning at work, while uncontrolled digital workload can hinder it.

JYU is developing a novel bilingual teacher training programme in early childhood education

The University of Jyväskylä received funding of €300,000 from the Ministry of Education and Culture to develop a functional bilingual bachelor’s degree programme in early childhood education.

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First-grade teachers benefit from digital assessment feedback on the two-year pre-primary education pilot

Researchers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Turku have investigated teachers’ and principals’ views on the digital pupil feedback provided for them regarding the two-year pre-primary education pilot.

Joni Kettunen

Joni Kettunen receives the University of Jyväskylä’s Puolestapuhuja Award 2025

The Jyväskylä University Foundation has decided to present the 2025 Puolestapuhuja Award to Joni Kettunen, CEO and doctor of psychology. He is the founder of Firstbeat and leads the company’s two business areas: elite sports and wellbeing.

The early childhood education system works, but families' freedom of choice is not always realised (Kuusiholma-Linnamäki)

A recent doctoral thesis from the University of Jyväskylä shows that the structures of the early childhood education system alone are not enough to ensure families' freedom of choice in their children's care arrangements.

Nearly three million euros from the Kone Foundation to the University of Jyväskylä

In the autumn 2025 call, the Kone Foundation awarded a total of 16 grants to the University of Jyväskylä, with a total amount of 2 924 700 euros.

Tuire Koponen

Professor Tuire Koponen develops methods for taking individual variation into account in Mathematics learning support

Professor Tuire Koponen is researching how children develop mathematical thinking even before they start school and how Early Childhood Education can support this development on an individual basis.

How municipalities implement the learning support reform – new study led by University of Jyväskylä

A research project led by the University of Jyväskylä is now investigating how the reform of learning support is taking shape in everyday school life across Finland.