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This year the Jyväskylä Pride week is being celebrated 1–7 September 2025. The event is organised by Jyväskylän Seta ry. As in past years, the University of Jyväskylä and the Student Union JYY are participating in the event.

Arja Sääkslahti, newly appointed professor at the University of Jyväskylä, explores the importance of physical activity in children’s development from multiple perspectives. Her research focuses on early childhood.

Timo Jaakkola, a new professor at the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, is planning an extensive physical education intervention for schools.

Researchers’ Night opens doors for schoolchildren to laboratories and secrets of science

For a child, moving from one day-care group or nursery to another is a major change in everyday life, while for the early childhood education and care system it is a practice that makes things possible.

Did you know that there are dogs working on campus enhancing the wellbeing of students?

The Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists in Finland donates €30,000 and the Society of Radiographers in Finland €15.000 for the new master’s degree programme in diagnostic health sciences at the University of Jyväskylä.

For the first time, Mikko Mäkinen experimentally examined in his doctoral dissertation examined the sulfate tolerance of Finnish fish species and produced essential and highly timely background information for water protection needs.

When you live in a way that your own life interests and welfare are connected to the interests and welfare of others around you, your humanity grows, and so does the humanity of the whole community. A person becomes a person through and with others.