Donations make an impact

In 2018, the university decided to use a significant amount of donation funds to benefit different disciplines. Thanks to donors we were able to recruit top scientists, support young researchers in their career path and make new research openings possible.

Medicine and Health Sciences
Cohort research, cancer research, young researcher career paths, oral radiology and imaging

Information and Electrical Engineering
Support for a new professorship in printed and hybrid electronics
Microelectronics

Information and Electrical Engineering and Human Sciences
Development and updating of the campus research and study ICT infrastructure, including sensor data infrastructures and Space for Innovative Solutions in Learning and Interaction (LEAF).

Technology
Oulu Mining School development and co-operation with industry
Support for the Construction and Civil Engineering recruiting programme
Architecture

Economics
Support for a professorship in branding
Entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility research, with such themes as business growth and economic renewal; creating opportunities for international business; digital strategies; corporate responsibility as a competitive edge; and co-operative business and enterprise.

Humanities and Education
Strengthening the position of foreign languages, particularly Swedish, in teacher training and early childhood education
The digitalisation and archiving the Saami Culture Archive according to the special national duty assigned to the University of Oulu

More than 5 million euros of donation funds allocated to the development of research and education and the well-being of students.

Human Sciences

Strengthening Swedish language skills

Business Sciences

Establishment of the professorship in Business Ethics

Establishing a professorship in Micro-entrepreneurship

Establishment of the professorship in Financial Economics, including development of cooperative business teaching and research.

Natural Sciences

Renewing the NMR research infrastructure

Supporting mathematics education

Medical sciences

Supporting the career paths of emerging researchers

Research and development of imaging devices

Translational Medicine Research

Cardiovascular disease clinical research and cancer and brain research

Medical technology research and education

Lifelong health research

Engineering

Establishing a professorship and research group in the field of water engineering and promoting business cooperation

Promotion of doctoral theses in the field of water engineering

Strengthening education action programs of engineering studies. The measures are aimed especially at cooperation with companies and higher education institutions and at the well-being of students, also taking into account the natural science fields of study.

Bio and circular economy: Funding for tenure track positions

Steel research: building research infrastructure

Vehicle and construction machinery technology: Funding for the tenure track position

Mining school: development of research and education cooperation in mining technology, strengthening of the refinement technology research group (postdoctoral researcher), development of the Recycling and treatment of process rejects -course

Civil engineering: renewing the research infrastructure of the geolaboratory, supporting young graduate students

Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

Promotion of information technology and electrical engineering education, student well-being, and educational and business cooperation

Promoting education and research cooperation related to energy-efficient 6G systems, supporting the recruitment program for talented young researchers and doctoral research.

Supporting students' well-being

Recruitment of a new study psychologist