Staff benefits and well-being

As stated in our University values, we are engaged to create new. You are provided with an opportunity to develop your skills through interesting tasks as well as a comprehensive selection of staff training, such as Finnish language courses, welcome to Finland training and project management courses. Also, we encourage our staff to participate in relevant events, conferences and training to support your career development.

We pay particular attention to the skills of supervisors and leaders to ensure that they can optimally support staff.

At the University of Oulu, we provide staff members work laptops, phones and other equipment depending on the nature of the work. We have world-class facilities with the latest technology to perform your research.

Comprehensive support services are always at your disposal so you can concentrate on your research or other core tasks.

We provide you with support services such as scouting of research funding opportunities, help with the preparation of funding applications and other research project-related services. You might also need support with cooperating with businesses, we got you covered!

Besides services supporting you with your research, we have a number of experts to support you with, for example, communications, human resources, ICT or other administrative matters.

The University of Oulu provides its staff with both monetary and immaterial incentives. The monthly salary consists of a position-specific salary and a performance-based salary element. We also want to reward you with immediate rewards in case of extraordinary achievements or exceptional efforts aligned with our values and strategy. Some staff members are also under an incentive programme to strengthen the commitment of key personnel to the university and the achievement of the university’s strategic aims as well as to reward results.

Your unit may also acknowledge you on your special days.

We give support for relocation and settling in for all employees arriving abroad. In addition to the advice and support from their unit, all employees and their families are entitled to our programmes and services that help to settle in Oulu and feel like home.

We offer additional relocation services to a person selected to the University of Oulu placed in a position at level IV (Professor) and level III (Senior Research Fellow, Academy Researcher, University Lecturer) positions of the four-stage research career model or in a Tenure Track position (all levels). This additional support includes consultation on residence permits/registrations, in-country bureaucracy, apartment search and utility contracts, school and daycare matters, other settling-in, and much more.