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The E-thesis system is used to assess second-cycle theses at the University of Helsinki.

Once assessed, theses are transferred from E-thesis to the Helda repository, where they are displayed for open or limited access. Further information on  public access to and publication of master’s theses  is available on the Instructions for Teaching website. 

From 1 August 2024, two versions of E-thesis are available.  Here you can find user instructions for the new version. If you have submitted your thesis in the old E-thesis, read  these user instructions . 

Please check the list below for the system used for thesis assessment in your faculty and degree programme.

The following faculties use the  old E-thesis   for submitting bachelor’s theses:

• Faculty of Educational Sciences  
• Faculty of Medicine  
• Swedish School of Social Science  
• Faculty of Theology

Until 31 December 2024, the following faculties will use the old E-thesis for submitting master’s theses, licentiate theses in veterinary medicine and advanced studies theses in medicine : 

• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Law

From 1 August 2024 , the following faculties use the new E-thesis for submitting master's theses :

• Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Educational Sciences
• Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
• Faculty of Social Sciences

At the Faculty of Science , theses will be submitted in either the new or the old system, depending on the degree programme. The  new E-thesis  is used to submit master’s theses in the following degree programmes from 1 August 2024:

• Master’s Programme in Particle Physics and Astrophysical Sciences
• Master’s Programme in Data Science
• Master’s Programme in Geology and Geophysics
• Master’s Programme in Atmospheric Sciences
• Master’s Programme in Urban Studies and Planning
• Master’s Programme in Life Science Informatics
• Master’s Programme in Geography
• Master’s Programme for Teachers of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (Study Track in Physics, Study Track in Chemistry)
• Master’s Programme in Theoretical and Computational Methods
• Master’s Programme in Computer Science

The  old E-thesis  will be used until 31 December 2024 in the other Faculty of Science master’s programmes and the Study Track in Mathematics in the Master’s Programme for Teachers of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

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Assessment process in the new e-thesis.

Below is a short description of the assessment process in the new E-thesis and the automated messages sent by the system.

• A student submits their finalised thesis in the system by the deadline. They receive a message about the receipt of their thesis. Student Services receives a message about the submitted thesis.
• Student Services designates the thesis examiners and sets the assessment deadline.  The status of the thesis changes automatically to ‘under assessment’. The assigned examiners receive an email about the thesis to be assessed.
• The examiners assess and approve their assessments by the deadline.  The status of the thesis changes automatically to ‘assessment complete’. The system sends a message to all examiners about the completion of the assessment process. Student Services is informed of the assessed thesis.
• Student Services transfers the thesis assessment to await the dean’s decision.  The status of the thesis is changed to ‘awaiting decision’. The student is informed of the grade proposal by email.
• After the dean’s decision, Student Services marks the thesis as approved.  The thesis status is changed to ‘complete’, and the system exports the thesis to Helda. The student receives a message about the thesis assessment decision.

Contact details

If you need assistance in using the system or further information about the thesis assessment process, please contact a student advice service point or  [email protected] .

Logging in to E-thesis

E-thesis is available at  https://ethesis2-prod.it.helsinki.fi/en .

When academic administration staff have designated the thesis examiners, they will receive an email about the thesis to be assessed. The system can be accessed through the link in the email or from the system  frontpage .

Examiners can log in to the system in two ways:

• Via the link in the email or from the system frontpage, using UH credentials
• Via the email login link (external examiners)

NB! If an examiner has several active email addresses (e.g.,  hus.fi  and  helsinki.fi ), they must log in to the system using the address to which they received information on the thesis to be assessed. If the examiner received the information to an external email address (e.g., hus.fi), they must log in to the system via the login link provided in the email.

1. Login with UH credentials

If you received a message about a thesis to be assessed to a University of Helsinki email, you can log in to the system through the link in the email or from the  system frontpage .

The frontpage features three login options.

Once you have logged in, click on ‘For examiners’ at the bottom of the frontpage.

2. Login by external examiners

If you received a message about a thesis to be assessed to an email outside the University of Helsinki (e.g., a hus.fi address), you can log into E-thesis only by clicking on the login link in the message. 

The login link in the email is valid for 30 hours.

If the link has expired, you can request a new one from the  login page for examiners  under ‘Logging in using an external email address’. 

In the designated field, enter the email to which the original assessment invitation was sent and click on ‘Send a new invitation’.

Task queue for examiners

After login, the theses assigned to you are displayed on the frontpage.

The theses whose assessment is incomplete are shown in the task queue ‘Theses to be assessed’.

The ‘Assess’ button appears next to the theses awaiting your assessment.

If the button ‘Edit or view the assessment you have approved’ appears, you have assessed the thesis but it is awaiting assessment by the other examiners.

The task queue ‘Assessed theses’ shows all the theses whose assessment is complete; in this case, all examiners have approved their assessment.

Begin assessment

You can assess a thesis by clicking on ‘Assess’.

Once you have checked the thesis information, you can begin the assessment by clicking on ‘Begin assessment’ at the bottom of the tab ‘Thesis information’.

The ‘Assessment of thesis areas’ tab

By clicking on ‘Show assessment instructions’, you can directly access the instructions for the relevant faculty or degree programme at  The examination and grading of master’s and licentiate theses .

Approval of maturity test

An official at Teaching and Learning Services has reviewed the student’s answers to questions about their maturity test. Based on the answers, the system indicates whether the maturity test must be examined only for content or also for language proficiency. Further information on maturity tests is available on the  Instructions for Teaching  website.

The approval of a student’s thesis requires the approval of their maturity test.

The maturity test is usually examined by the coordinating thesis examiner. If you will not examine the maturity test, you can skip its approval.

Assessment of thesis areas

Next, assess the thesis areas numerically and, if necessary, in writing. The number of areas assessed varies by faculty. Check the assessment instructions of the relevant faculty or degree programme by clicking on ‘Show assessment instructions’ in the top right corner.

Numerical assessment 

You must enter a numerical assessment of each area on a scale of 0 to 5. The other examiners’ numerical assessments are displayed under ‘Other examiners’. If the grade for any area is 0, the thesis cannot usually be approved. 

Written assessment

The written assessment of thesis areas is voluntary. The examiners use the same ‘Written assessment’ field . A written assessment can be added by clicking on ‘Add written assessment’.

Please note that written assessments are always displayed to the student alongside the grade assigned for the area.  Save only text intended for the student in this field.

If you edit another examiner’s written assessments of thesis areas and then approve your assessment, the system will ask the other examiner to accept your changes. Further information is available at Changes to written assessments .

Enter your written assessment in the field appearing on the screen, and click on ‘Save’.

NB!  If another examiner has already assessed the thesis areas and you agree with them, you can confirm the assessment by selecting ‘Confirm the submitted assessment’. This will lock the numerical and written assessments. You can return to enter your own assessments by deselecting the above.

Once you have entered your numerical and written assessments of all thesis areas, you can proceed to enter a grade proposal and statement by clicking on the relevant button at the bottom of the page.

The ‘Grade proposal’ tab

A summary of the assessments of thesis areas is shown at the top of the ‘Grade proposal’ tab.

Next, enter your grade proposal for the thesis. This proposal is required . You can see the other examiners’ proposals under ‘Other examiners’.

Examiners should aim to agree on the grade proposal.  If this is impossible, see the instructions at Different grade proposals.

Next, write a statement on your grade proposal. This statement is required . The examiners use the same statement field . If you edit another examiner’s written statement and then approve your assessment, the system will ask the other examiner to accept your changes. Further information is available at  Changes to written assessments .  

NB!  If another examiner has already entered their grade proposal and statement and you agree with them, you can confirm the assessment by selecting ‘Confirm the submitted assessment’. This will lock the proposal and statement. You can return to enter your own assessments by deselecting the above.

To save your incomplete assessment and continue later, click on ‘Save’ at the bottom of the page.

If your assessment is complete, click on ‘Approve assessment’.

Assessment summary

The ‘Assessment summary’ tab shows a summary of the thesis assessment.

If the thesis is awaiting other examiners’ assessments, it will not be marked as assessed until all the examiners have assessed it.

If all the examiners agree on the assessment and have approved their assessment, the status of the thesis will change to ‘assessment complete’ and administrative staff will receive a message about the completed assessment.

You can return to your task queue by clicking on ‘Return to theses to be assessed’.

Changes to written assessments

If you edit another examiner’s written assessments or statement and then approve your assessment, the system will ask the other examiner to accept your changes.

The other examiner will receive a message about the changes awaiting approval. The changes can be reviewed by clicking on the link in the message.

You can check your original assessment by clicking on the triangle at ‘Previous versions’.

The system will display the different versions of the written assessment, and their comparison will allow you to review the changes.

Likewise, the changes to the statement can be reviewed by comparing the versions.

You can continue to edit the assessment, in which case any changes you make will be returned to the other examiner for approval.

If you agree on the examiner’s changes and no longer wish to edit the assessment, you can approve it again by clicking on ‘Approve assessment’ on the ‘Grade proposal’ tab.

Different grade proposals

If the examiners propose different grades for a thesis, the system will indicate this.

The examiners should primarily reach a consensus on the grade proposal.

You can save your assessment by clicking on ‘Save’, and continue discussing the grade proposal outside the system (e.g., via email) with the other examiner.  You can find their email address on the ‘Thesis information’ tab.

If you cannot agree on the grade proposal, click on ‘Approve assessment’.

The system will then send a message to all of the examiners about their different grade proposals.

Please note that if you have edited written assessments or the thesis statement, the changes will return to the other examiner for approval after you have clicked on ‘Approve assessment’.

The system will send a message about different grade proposals to administrative staff as well.  Faculty practices for different grade proposals vary. Further information is available in the instructions for specific degree programmes on the Instructions for Teaching website.

Once the final grade has been decided by the faculty, administrative staff will enter it into the system.

Message about completed assessment

When all examiners have agreed on the grade proposal and approved their assessments, they will receive a message about the completion of the assessment process.

At the same time, the status of the thesis will change to ‘assessment complete’, and administrative staff will receive a message about the completed assessment.

The staff will move the thesis to await the dean’s decision, and the student will receive an email about the grade proposal.

Assessment statement (PDF)

To download the thesis assessment as a PDF file, log in to the E-thesis service through the email link or the service frontpage.

In the task queue, click on the ‘Assessment summary’ button next to the relevant thesis.

On the ‘Assessment summary’ tab, you can download the thesis assessment as a PDF file by clicking on ‘Download file’. 

Instructions for the old E-thesis

The examiner (called ‘reviewer’ in the E-thesis system) receives an automatic message from the E-thesis system when the examination stage begins. The message is sent to the email address that the E-thesis official at the Student Services on-site service point has entered into the system. The examiner must log in to E-thesis with the email address to which the message has been sent and to which the thesis has been submitted for examination. This means, for example, that theses sent to a hus.fi address can only be found if the examiner logs in to the system by clicking on Authentication with email address and password. For users that don’t have University of Helsinki’s credentials. Theses to be evaluated are always associated with the email address attached to them. 

The message comes from a no-reply address. The message contains a direct link to the main page of the thesis evaluation form. The message contains three links that lead to the main page and form in different languages. Please read the faculty guidelines on the language in which the thesis must be evaluated.

Another option for logging in to the E-thesis system is to use the front page. The front page is available at https://ethesis.helsinki.fi/en/ . You can find the Login link at the bottom of the front page.

You must then select the login method.

If you do not have University of Helsinki credentials and are using the E-thesis system for the first time, you must register in the system before you can receive theses to be examined. An official at the Student Services on-site service point sends external examiners a registration invitation through the E-thesis system to the email address supplied. You can then create a username following the instructions in the email message.

You can find links to the PDF version of the thesis and the Ouriginal report at the top of the main page for the thesis to be evaluated, together with information on the examination deadline and the faculty and degree programme associated with the thesis in question. The current content of the evaluation form is displayed on the main page. 

Examiners can write comments to each other, only intended for mutual communication. Such comments are only available to the examiners, and they will be deleted from the system after the examination stage.

Both examiners are assigned their own colour (orange and grey; see below). If the examiners agree on the evaluation of various areas of the thesis, the colour is black. If the evaluation form only accepts one value for each evaluation criterion (bachelor’s theses), the selected values are displayed on a grey background. 

Examiners can edit the content of the form by clicking on Edit evaluation. Editing the evaluation locks the content for the logged-in user and prevents other examiners from editing the content of the evaluation. If an examiner opens the information on the thesis while the other examiner is editing the evaluation form, the former examiner will be shown a message about the locked content and the examiner editing the form. The content will be unlocked after the examiner has saved or cancelled the changes made to the evaluation form or after the form has been open for 30 minutes without being saved or cancelled. 

If the Approved column is ticked, it means that the examiner in question has approved the content of the evaluation form.

If you click on Evaluation help, you will be taken to the faculty instructions for the examination of theses on the Instructions for Teaching website. NB! On the Instructions for Teaching website, you must select the degree programme of the thesis you are examining.

The most important element in the Evaluation information section is the evaluation form and the related details. The E-thesis system contains several evaluation forms that also differ depending on whether the examination focuses on a bachelor’s or master’s thesis. The logic of the forms also varies. The evaluation forms of new master’s theses contain both examiner-specific sections and shared sections. The latter include the grade proposal, its grounds and any faculty-specific additional information.

The examiners edit the content of the evaluation one at a time, saving the form after each edit. The evaluation does not need to be approved immediately if the interim edits are to be used in the evaluation. In this case, the examiners can use the comment field to send each other messages on their edits.

When the evaluation has been completed, the examiner approves it by clicking on Approve evaluation. The approval of the evaluation means that the logged-in examiner no longer wishes, or is able, to change the evaluation. The evaluation must be approved twice by the examiner who saved and approved the evaluation first. The other examiner(s) must usually approve the evaluation only once.

Approving the evaluation locks the evaluation form for the logged-in user. However, the form opens again for editing if another examiner (or one of the other examiners) edits the content of the evaluation. In other words, both (or all) examiners must approve the evaluation in order for the thesis to be sent to the faculty, degree programme steering group or grading committee for consideration and approval. The Approve evaluation button is not activated if all selections are blank (-).

However, the examiner’s approval is cancelled if another examiner either edits their own evaluation section (radio button selections in the evaluation areas) or revises the shared evaluation section (grade proposal, faculty-specific additional information, grounds). When all examiners have approved the evaluation, the thesis is automatically sent on to the next stage, and the examiners receive an automatic email from a no-reply address. Attached to the email message is the content of the evaluation form as a PDF file.

The E-thesis official from the Student Services on-site service point then forwards the thesis for approval at the relevant meeting. This must be done at least one week before the meeting. The student will receive an automatic message from the system, attached to which is the content of the evaluation form as a PDF file. Once the thesis evaluation has been approved at the above meeting, a student adviser will separately record the thesis as completed in the student information system and submit the thesis to the E-thesis archive. The student will receive an automatic message about the grading decision and a link for allowing online publication.

The student provides information on the possible need for an embargo (delayed publication) at the beginning of the submission stage in the field Other notes on the submission form. This field is included in the master’s thesis submission forms of all faculties, with the exception of the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Student Services official confirms the embargo. 

• Instructions for students
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Instructions

• Educational Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Biological and Environmental Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine
• Agriculture and Forestry

Sending your Master’s thesis for evaluation and publishing it in digital format

Faculty of medicine, before submission.

• All theses must have a title page and an abstract. The abstract must be written in the language in which the student completed their secondary education for the purposes of the maturity test. Check the Instructions for Students website for guidelines on how to write the abstract in your degree programme.
• If you have agreed on an embargo with your supervisor, indicate its duration (1 to 12 months) in the “Other notes” field in the submission form.
• Submit enclosures, if any, to Student Services.
• The author of the thesis saves the dissertation in the E-thesis system no later than 11.59 p.m. on the day of submission.

Technical depositing instructions

• Convert your thesis (including the title page fisrt and then the abstract and finally the thesis) into a single accessible PDF file, name the file Surname_Firstname_thesis_year (without Scandinavian letters or special characters) and save it. Check that the pdf file is in text format. The easiest way to see it is to be able to select / paint text with the mouse.
• Activate your Office 365 email if you haven´t done it yet. A thesis cannot be submitted without a valid helsinki.fi email address. (NOTE! Activation takes one night.)
• Carefully complete the description data requested in the fields of the form.
• When needed, complete the Abstract field again if your work contains an abstract written in an additional language.
• Retrieve the PDF file you have created.
• Check again that the information is correct and complete the depositing.
• After a successful submission your work is under a review and evaluation process that includes plagiarism detection in the Ouriginal system. After submission, you will receive an automatic confirmation message from the Ouriginal and E-thesis system.
• N.B. Once the thesis has been submitted to the E-thesis system, it can no longer be edited. Please be careful!
• After saving your thesis, the reviewers will be added to your thesis and only then will your thesis be sent to the reviewers.
• When the review is complete, you will receive a message from the system with a grade suggestion. The grade proposal will come before the Faculty Council meeting.
• Once the thesis evaluation has been approved at the Faculty Council meeting an attempt is made to register the performance notes of the thesis and of the maturity test as soon as possible.
• Once the registration has done you will receive a message that will allow you to grant or deny permission for online publication in Helda (Helsinki University Open Repository)
• N.B. Information is saved and emails will be sent to the user whose account has been used in logging in to the system. Never give your user name or email address to others!

Feedback form (LIC.MED./LIC.DENT, in Finnish) Feedback form (LIC.MED./LIC.DENT, in Swedish) Feedback form (psychology&logopedics, in Finnish)

Submission Form for the Faculty of Medicine.

Publishing online

At the University of Helsinki, master’s theses are published in HELDA , the University’s open digital repository. Once your thesis has been approved by the Faculty, you will receive an email message with a link for allowing online publication. Online publication is recommended, since your work will gain a permanent publication platform and web address. If you do not allow the online publication of your thesis, a PDF version will be archived to be available only locally on the library terminals in University Library facilities. The thesis abstract and descriptive information are always published in Helsinki University´s open digital repository.

If your thesis contains an article published in a journal, or an article based on your thesis is in the works, the thesis may not be published openly as such. You can often get information from the publisher of the article about their Open Access publishing policies. If you need more information about publishing, you can contact the service [email protected].

If you do not accept the publishing license, the PDF version of your thesis will be stored in such a way that the full text can only be accessed locally from library computers ("archived") but the reference and the abstract will be published in Helda .

Ouriginal plagiarism detection system

The submitted thesis is processed using the Ouriginal plagiarism detection system. This creates a report that the assessor reads. Link to the report comes into the evaluation form in E-thesis. The report does not automatically become readable by the student. Once the Ouriginal system has generated the report, you will receive a message in your email. You can use the link in the message to decide whether your work will be saved in the Ouriginal database. The University of Helsinki recommends saving in Ouriginal, as this way the student can prevent plagiarism to his or her own work in the future. You can save your work in Ouriginal, even if you do not give permission for its open publication online. The student has the right to see the Ouriginal report generated from his or her own work upon request.

Further information and help

Instructions for Students In questions related to the thesis examination and assessment process, contact Meilahti Student Services ([email protected]). In issues related to depositing, send your question by email to [email protected].

• Helsinki University´s thesis template (guides you in making an accessible file)
• University's abstract document (a word document) and model document as a pdf
• Instructions on how to convert your file into a PDF file (PDF-XChange program). Please note: you should not add restrictions such as disabling printing of the PDF file.
• Instructions on accessibility

You may submit and publish your thesis even after you have graduated. In this case, please send e-mail to [email protected] .

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Looking for funding to your studies? On this site, you will find information about current grants and scholarships offered by the UH Funds and other funds.

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The university of helsinki funds.

University of Helsinki Funds grant a total of approximately 400,000 euros in various scholarships and grants to students and researchers each year. The University of Helsinki Funds includes over 350 funds: discipline-specific funds and named funds founded by our alumni, friends and other supporters. The funds' assets consist of funds donated to the University of Helsinki over the past centuries.

Mainly only students, researchers and staff at the University of Helsinki can apply for scholarships from the University of Helsinki's funds.

University of Helsinki Funds' application round

The funds’ application round for 2024 is from January, 15 to February, 8, 2024 . Read the descriptions for the grants you can apply for this year, and apply by logging into the University of Helsinki Grant Portal .

If you have questions regarding the grants and scholarships, please contact [email protected] . 

Instructions for applying and evaluation criteria

Who can apply, grant period, and informing the applicants of the grant decisions.

Mainly only students, researchers and staff at the University of Helsinki can apply for scholarships from the University of Helsinki's funds. If you are employed at the University of Helsinki, you cannot receive a grant, but if there is a period during a period of three years when you are not employed at the university, you can receive a grant. If you are employed at the University of Helsinki and have been granted travel or mobility support, please read these instructions in Flamma .

The decisions concerning the grant recipients are made by the end of April at the latest. All applicants are personally informed of the decisions.

Grants must be spent within three years of the date awarded (by the end of the last month of the three-year period). No grant period can exceed the three-year limit. Grants not spent within three years will be considered cancelled.

Applying for a grant

You can apply for the grants in the University of Helsinki Grant Portal . The portal works in three languages. You can apply for all of the grants of the University of Helsinki Funds in either Finnish, Swedish or English.

All attachments added to the application must be sent as PDF files. 

You can save your application either as a draft or a final application. Please remember to send your final application. Drafts are not acknowledged as applications when the decisions about the grants and stipends are made.

Undergraduate and graduate students need to add the following attachments:

A transcript of credits (ordered from Sisu).

Other attachments won't be needed unless they are specifically asked for in the grant description.

You can add one or more references to your application. The statement can be freely formulated. If the applicant provides a reference in their application, the reference will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to submit the reference. 

Make sure you ask your reference in advance for their willingness to function as a reference and their contact details, that is e-mail address and phone number. You will receive an automatic confirmation by e-mail when the statement has been sent.

Evaluation Criteria

The evaluation of the application is based on the common evaluation criteria of the University of Helsinki Funds.

Study progress

• number of credits and grades compared to the study time

Research plan and research activities

• is taken into consideration if the applicant is working on his/her thesis or if the applicant is applying for a research grant

Other activities that support the application

• work experience and positions of trust that support the studies or research
• activities within the University community

Some grants can also have specific criteria that are mentioned in the grant descriptions.

Evaluation criteria for travel grants

Significance of the planned trip for the studies

• the significance of the planned trip for the studies or research
• the link between the planned trip and the studies

Financial significance of the travel grant for the trip planned

Evaluation criteria for scholarships from the Ensio Hyvärinen fund

Scholarships from medicine candidate Ensio Hyvärinen's fund are applied for in the grant portal in the same way as other scholarships as part of the fund's application round. Please see the evaluation criteria here (in Finnish and Swedish) .

Valo Fund's grants

The Valo Fund aims to promote the mental health of students enrolled at the University of Helsinki with the help of psychotherapy.

The fund's scholarships can be applied for in the same way as other scholarships as part of the University of Helsinki Funds' application period from January, 15 to February, 8, 2024 . You'll find more information and the application form in this attachment .

The applicant must send their application as an encrypted e-mail from their personal University of Helsinki e-mail address to the address [email protected]

The Valo Fund's support is intended to support continued psychotherapy either for the third or fourth year after the KELA's support for rehabilitative psychotherapy has ended. The Valo Fund's scholarships can be applied for by students enrolled at the University of Helsinki.

For more information about the fund, please contact [email protected]  

Get Your Master's Thesis Written! Grant

The aim of the grant is to promote the finalizing of the master’s thesis by providing for an intensive thesis writing period at one of the field stations of the University. The grant is meant for those students that are close to the end of their thesis work. The field stations are located in Hyytiälä, Kilpisjärvi, Lammi, Tvärminne and Värriö.

You can apply for the grant if you are a basic-degree student at the University of Helsinki and you have not been awarded the grant before. The grant is applied for one week and it includes full room and board at the field stations. More information available on  Get Your Master's Thesis Written! Grant page .

Dean's Award to Fees-liable Student

International degree programmes can award a Deans' Award to a tuition fee liable student for outstanding study performance during the student's first study year. For more information on the awards, please see the page Tuition fees .

Scholarships and grants not administered by the University of Helsinki

This section compiles current calls for applications for other grants and scholarships available for students. The University of Helsinki is not responsible for the content of these notices. Please read the application instructions carefully and always check the relevant information with the grant provider.

Viking Olov Björk’s scholarship in applied biomaterial research

Viking Olov Björk’s scholarship supports research in the intersection between medical technology and its clinical applications. This covers research and development within such areas as tissue engineering, nanotechnology or biomaterial research.

The scholarship is to be given to a young researcher at a Nordic university who has shown scientific skills in the field and shown an aptitude for leadership within the scientific field supported by the scholarship.

Apply no later than 30 September 2024. More information is available on Uppsala University's website .

Rozentāls Society scholarship for thesis writers

The Rozentāls Society (Rozentāls-seura) is a Finland-Latvia friendship society. Thesis writers can apply for a grant from the association. The topic of the thesis must be related to Latvia or Finnish-Latvian relations. 

Applications can be submitted all year round. More information about the grant is available on the Rozentāls Society's website  (in Finnish) or directly from the society:  [email protected]

Academy of Finland

The application rounds of The Academy of Finland are usually in April and September.

Research.fi

Research.fi lists open funding calls in sciences, arts and culture. The database is open for all.

Association of Finnish Foundations

The Association of Finnish Foundations helps applicants with questions concerning grants.

Finnish cultural foundation

The Finnish Cultural Foundation awards grants from the central fund and regional funds. Application period for the central fund takes place in October. The regional funds have a common application period in January.

FYRK is a grant database in Swedish.

Research Professional

The international Research Professional is an online database of research funding. It can be accessed with a computer connected to the university’s network.

Grants database SYL

The National Union of University Students in Finland SYL maintains a database where you can search for grants and scholarships.

Master thesis

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Life at the University of Helsinki Doctoral School

Doing a doctorate is a life-changing experience

Doctoral graduates are not only experts in their chosen fields but also capable of advancing knowledge, educating others, and contributing to both academic and societal progress. They do not merely master techniques and methods and know theories; they are critical thinkers with a social consciousness about ethics and politics in their research. They can dig deep into their disciplines and at the same time think broadly across disciplines.

It is a lot to learn in 3-4 years, and that is why doctoral education is structured with schedules and milestones, and doctoral researchers are supervised and supported. All doctoral researchers belong to one of the doctoral programmes, which provide them with disciplinary training and a community of scholars. They have at least two supervisors and a thesis committee, who will help them plan a manageable project, network in their field, and discuss career aspirations.

At the University level, the Doctoral School organizes and develops support mechanisms, monitors the progress of doctoral researchers, provides transferrable skills training and develops doctoral education in alignment with the University’s goals, national guidelines and international standards.

We have just launched a doctoral education pilot funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. 172 doctoral researchers across eleven field-specific consortia have started their journey towards a doctorate, with additional recruits expected to start next Spring. The pilot focuses on improving doctoral education processes, supporting researchers’ career paths, and increasing collaboration between the University and industry and other societal stakeholders. The best practices of the pilot will be employed in our doctoral education in general.

This year the Doctoral School will award excellent supervisors for the first time. We received over a hundred nominations from doctoral researchers, who often described the supervisor’s role as the person who believed in them when they did not. For many doctoral researchers the path towards a doctorate had been a deep and fulfilling experience of personal and professional growth.

As the director of the Doctoral School, my aim is to ensure that our doctoral researchers will have the best education matching their needs and the changing world’s.

Minna Palander-Collin

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In the Language Bank: Aku Rouhe

His current work includes, among other things, fine-tuning large language models that are optimized for Finnish and Nordic languages. These openly available LLMs have been created through successful academia-enterprise collaboration.

Who are you?

I am Aku Rouhe. For several years, I did research in the Aalto University Speech Recognition research group, and defended my doctoral thesis there this past February. After Aalto, I moved to Silo AI (now owned by AMD), where I work with large language models (LLMs) – I have moved from speech to text. My interest in language is also part of my free time in creative writing.

What is your research topic?

In my doctoral thesis , I compared end-to-end models with more traditional multi-model decomposed systems. In recent years, both the academia and commercial deployments in speech recognition have largely moved to end-to-end models. However, my work showed how multi-model decomposed systems remain a competitive alternative, for instance, in terms of recognition accuracy. Indeed, the main advantage of end-to-end models is probably their simplicity.

End-to-end models often require vast training resources. Thus, it was important for me to  study end-to-end models applied to under-resourced languages as well.

My current work at Silo is on fine-tuning large language models such as  Poro and Viking , which are models optimized for Finnish and Nordic language. These LLMs were developed in a collaborative research project between Silo and TurkuNLP.

How is your research related to Kielipankki?

End-to-end models hunger for data, so large corpora are needed. I was involved in compiling the  Aalto Finnish Parliament ASR Corpus 2008-2020 , which consists of Finnish Parliament plenary session recordings, and also in the Lahjoita Puhetta project, where volunteers donated their speech to produce the  Puhelahjat corpus . I got to combine both of these large speech corpora in an article that was published when I was finalizing my PhD, at a time when I was involved with the  LAREINA project . Nowadays, the Finnish speech recognition resources are respectable for a language spoken by so few.

Recent publications

Rouhe, A., Grósz, T., Kurimo, M. 2024.  Principled Comparisons for End-to-End Speech Recognition: Attention vs Hybrid at the 1000-Hour Scale . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , vol. 32, pp. 623-638, 2024.

Virkkunen, A., Rouhe, A., Phan, N. et al. 2023.  Finnish parliament ASR corpus . Lang Resources & Evaluation 57, 1645–1670 (2023).

Moisio, A., Porjazovski, D., Rouhe, A. et al. 2023.  Lahjoita puhetta: a large-scale corpus of spoken Finnish with some benchmarks . Lang Resources & Evaluation 57, 1295–1327 (2023).

Rouhe, A., Virkkunen, A., Leinonen, J., Kurimo, M. 2022. Low Resource Comparison of Attention-based and Hybrid ASR Exploiting wav2vec 2.0 .  Proc. Interspeech 2022, 3543–3547.

• Aalto Finnish Parliament ASR Corpus 2008–2020
• Donate Speech datasets ( puhelahjat ) for research use

More information

• Speech Recognition research group at Aalto Univerisity
• LAREINA – Language Resource Infrastructure for AI (2023–25)
• Donate Speech (Lahjoita puhetta) campaign (2020–24)
• Poro and Viking language models (Hugging Face)

  The  FIN-CLARIN consortium consists of a group of Finnish universities along with CSC – IT Center for Science and the Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus). FIN-CLARIN helps the researchers of Social Sciences and Humanities to use, refine, preserve and share their language resources.  The Language Bank of Finland is the collection of services that provides the language materials and tools for the research community.