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UEF student Yoshitha Vidanagamage champions intercultural communication through kindness and empathy. She dreams of Finland becoming a more inclusive and compassionate society.

Hanna Reinikainen, Career Counsellor at the University of Eastern Finland, helps students perceive their future opportunities, make decisions and find their path.

Natalia Musikka, who works as a planning architect for the City of Joensuu, is originally from Colombia.

Muhammad Tareque Hasan and Anika Quayum, originally from Bangladesh, recently graduated from UEF and now work at FinVector.

The Karelia University of Applied Sciences, the Savonia University of Applied Sciences and the University of Eastern Finland have a joint mentoring programme, which has been running since 2018.

The piloted development service was a platform for collaboration between local businesses and international students wishing to find employment in North Karelia.

Researchers from the Neuro-Innovation PhD programme are organising, for the first time, an English-language science camp as part of SnellmanEDU’s Children’s University.

The University of Eastern Finland and Ponsse Plc have signed a letter of intent to intensify cooperation in multidisciplinary competence development in research, development and innovation activities and training.

A total of eight UEF-affiliated startup companies from various fields participated in the Tahko Ski Lift Pitch, an event aimed at startup companies.

In autumn 2023, a unique project was launched to promote the employment of international students in Eastern Finland.