IT faculty lecturer Panu Moilanen awarded with the Open Learning Influencer Award

IT faculty lecturer Panu Moilanen was awarded the Open Learning Influencer Award by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Moilanen was recognized for his work in cybersecurity and digital security education.
Panu Moilanen works as a lecturer in an IT faculty master's degree programme about security and strategic analysis.
Published
4.6.2025

Panu Moilanen, a lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyväskylä, has received the Open Learning Influencer Award at  Open Science and Research Summer Days in Helsinki (Avoimen tieteen ja tutkimuksen kesäpäivät).

The award is granted for Moilanen's commendable work in spreading awareness and educational material on digital security to a wider audience.

Moilanen has also played a key role in the implementation and coordination of the Citizen's cyber security online course (Kansalaisen kyberturvallisuus), which is an open to all and free of charge course held in Finnish. The course is jointly organized with National Defence Training Association of Finland.

“Of course it's nice to be rewarded, but it's good to remember that it wasn't just me who was rewarded, but all those who have been involved in the design and implementation of our open content”, Moilanen says.

Panu Moilanen

Panu Moilanen

Lecturer