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Research project or group blog post

22.5.2025

VET skills formation systems - what is the role of guidance?

Skills2Capabilities blog: international comparison of skills development systems - what role for guidance?

Skills2Capabilities project -Blog archive

The Skills2Capability project is about understanding how skill systems across Europe need to develop if they are to assist people in labour market transitions—i.e., those between jobs, employers, or sectors—and thereby reduce the level of skill mismatch t

Research project or group news

10.3.2026

Participate in research of musical experiences and preferences

Do you enjoy music? Take part in a fun scientific study by the University of Jyväskylä and explore your musical preferences!

University news

21.5.2025

Help save freshwater pearl mussels from extinction – donate to the research of the University of Jyväskylä

Freshwater pearl mussel is a very endangered, demanding and sensitive species, which survives only in gravel-bottom rivers with clear and oxygen-rich water. The mussels still live in many rivers but their larvae can survive in only a few of them.

Science news

21.5.2025

New Horizon Europe project launched to safeguard biodiversity and carbon-rich forest networks in a changing climate

The University of Jyväskylä is involved in the SafeNet project and their responsibility is predicting the current and future diversity of primary and old-growth forests. SafeNet launched on 01 February 2025 and will run for four and a half years.

Dissertations

13.6.2025 - 13.6.2025

13.6.2025 M.Sc. Lina Sun (Faculty of Information Technology, Cognitive science)

Lina Sun defends their doctoral dissertation “From Neural Dynamics to Gaze Patterns: Mapping the Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Literary Metaphor Processing”.

Congresses and conferences

10.11.2025 - 11.11.2025

SDG4 Seminar 2025 "Leadership in Education"

The SDG4 Seminar is an annual international participatory seminar at the Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Jyväskylä.

Dissertations

27.6.2025 - 27.6.2025

27.6.2025 M.Sc. Toni Mujunen (Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Biomechanics)

M.Sc Toni Mujunen defends the doctoral dissertation in Biomechanics "Adaptation of cortical proprioceptive processing to peripheral lower limb injuries".

Dissertations

18.6.2025 - 18.6.2025

18.6.2025 M.Sc. Carla Sonsino Pereira (Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Biomechanics)

M.Sc. Carla Sonsino Pereira defends the doctoral dissertation in Biomechanics "Patellar tendon quality and quadriceps strength in male athletes with a unilateral ACL injury or reconstruction".

Dissertation news

21.5.2025

Doctoral dissertation: Sustainability education in business schools can be strengthened through practice-integrated learning and cross-sector collaboration

In her doctoral dissertation, M.Sc. (Econ.) Maija Lähteenkorva examines how sustainability education in business schools can be advanced through practice-integrated learning and cross-sector collaboration.

University news

20.5.2025

Nearly 2 Million Euros from the RCF programme on sport science to the University of Jyväskylä

The Research Council of Finland has granted researchers at the University of Jyväskylä a total of nearly 2 million euros in funding from the RCF programme on sport science (ACTIVE).

Blog post

20.5.2025

How to overcome academic disappointments? Personal coping strategies and supportive academic community

A key to a supportive academic community is that its members feel that possible ethically challenging situations, such as feelings of unfairness related to funding or work positions, are properly addressed, writes Anna Rönkä and Katja Kokko from JYU.