The University of Eastern Finland is a reliable partner in research, a diverse education provider and a driver of competence development in companies. You can turn to us when you need an expert with experience for your project, or future top talent for your company’s needs. Collaboration with the university can start from a single project or from educational collaboration, and it may lead to a long-term, goal-oriented strategic partnership.
In all matters related to university-business collaboration, please feel free to contact us at industry@uef.fi.
Become a partner of UEF
We create well-being and solve global challenges together with our partners through interdisciplinary research and education. Constituting part of university-business collaboration and impact, our partnership model promotes innovation, competence development and the emergence of new business activities. Together with our partners, we put infrastructures and expertise to good use, develop new teaching methods and promote sustainable development.
For companies and other organisations, our partnership model provides an opportunity to leverage top-level expertise to find solutions to their challenges. For our students and researchers, the model opens up unique opportunities to delve into practical problems and to forge contacts with representatives of business and industry.
Opportunities for collaboration
We are open to and interested in new initiatives and proposals for university-business collaboration that may address various forms of collaboration in research and education. Our versatile opportunities for collaboration pertain to degree-awarding and continuing education, as well as to RDI activities. Possible forms of collaboration include, e.g., internships and theses completed by students, visits and excursions, joint research projects, commissioned projects and projects completed for clients, shared use of devices and instruments, and continuous learning modules. Collaboration may also be related to knowledge or technology transfer, or to the university’s fund-raising activities.
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Further information
You can contact us in all matters related to collaboration with our university via email: industry@uef.fi.
