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Pictured: winner of the State Award for Public Information 2024, Leena Elina Valkeapää.

Interest in the local takes many directions

19.2.2025

Art historian Leena Elina Valkeapää looked into her hometown's folk festival tradition and ended up researching the history of national costumes. She is more interested in the process of costume development than in the original styles.

Public information

Non-fiction

State Awards

Engaging citizens, academic libraries, and research

27.3.2025

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27.3.2025

Zoom

How can services for research organizations assist and develop practices for wider participation in research? What do the researchers need?

Open science

Citizen science

Open science

Consultation rounds on the update of the policy components

11.2.2025

The Finnish research community is invited to give their views on the update of the policy components for educational resources and research data by 21 March 2025.

Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2025

26.5.2025

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27.5.2025

Tieteiden talo

The Open Science and Research Summer Conference will be held on May 26–27, 2025, in Helsinki. The event will take place at the House of Science and Letters and partly online. More details on the theme and partners will be announced later.

Open science

Committee for Public Information 2025–2027 appointed

5.2.2025

The Ministry of Education and Culture has assigned the Committee for Public Information (TJNK) for the next three-year office term. The Chair of the Committee is Managing Director, Docent Liisa Suvikumpu of the Association of Finnish Foundations.

Science communication

State Awards

Committee for Public Information

The Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK has been appointed

3.2.2025

The Ministry of Education and Culture has appointed the Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK for the term of 2025-2027.

Research integrity (RI)

Research ethics and research integrity

Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK

Taking Small Steps Toward Equality

29.1.2025

Shadia Rask received the 2024 State Award for Public Information for her contribution to current discussions on equality and equity, inequality and racism.

State Awards

Science communication

Collaboration networks

27.1.2025

International collaboration The Finnish national recommendation for responsible evaluation and assessment was one of the first national guidelines in the world. Cooperation to develop the evaluation in Finland will now continue in close cooperation with

Responsible Research

National Recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher

27.1.2025

National Recommendation Good practice in researcher evaluation. Recommendation for the responsible evaluation of a researcher in Finland. The general principles of researcher evaluation are transparency, integrity, equity, competence and diversity. They

Responsible Research

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User guide for the Publication Forum classification has been updated

23.1.2025

The updated user guide takes into account the new recommendations for responsible research assessment and prohibit the use of the Publication Forum classification in the evaluation of individual researchers.

Publication Forum classification

Publication Forum

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Ethical questions in research on nature-cultures and society

27.2.2025

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27.2.2025

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The Finnish National Board on Research Integrity TENK is coordinating a project to establish national ethical principles and ethical review model for research on nature and environment.

Ethical principles

Ethical review

Research ethics

User guide

21.1.2025

User guide for the Publication Forum classification 2024 The Publication Forum is a publication channel classification system implemented by the Finnish scientific community that supports the evaluation of the quality of research output. This user guide

Key publications

Publication Forum