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The University of Eastern Finland was formed through a merger of two formerly independent universities in Joensuu and Kuopio. These ceased to exist when the University of Eastern Finland began to operate in January 2010.

Ongoing reform in Finnish university legislation has affected the process. The reform will transform universities' legal status from entities under the state budget to an independent body corporate. This allows increased autonomy in university finances and administration. University of Eastern Finland has been built with an assumption that its legal status will be a body corporate under public law. New university legislation was finalized on June 16, 2009 by the Finnish Parliament.

On May 18, 2009 The Sino-Finnish Environmental Research Centre (SFERC) located in Nanjing, China was opened. It is a joint effort by University of Joensuu, University of Kuopio and University of Nanjing. SFERC is focused on higher education and research addressing forestry, energy and environmental issues. It is the first unit established by Finnish universities in China. It will operate at the University of Nanjing campus as a permanent satellite campus for the University of Eastern Finland.

Locations

One of the main buildings, Canthia, on the Kuopio campus.

Two main campuses, in Joensuu and Kuopio. One smaller campus in Savonlinna (currently a part of the University of Joensuu).

The main building of Joensuu campus.

Main campuses are located some 100 kilometres (60 mi) apart and Savonlinna campus is located some 200 kilometres (120 mi) from both of them.

Administration

University government, consisting of elected staff, student and administrative representatives (60%) and outside experts (40%) will control the University of Eastern Finland.

One of the first steps towards the new university was the forming of joint faculties in Economics and Natural Sciences between the universities. In May 2008 it was decided, that University of Eastern Finland would be structured into four major faculties; 1) Faculty of Philosophy, 2) Faculty of Forestry and Natural Sciences, 3) Faculty of Health Sciences, 4) Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences.

Statistics

The University of Eastern Finland will have a staff of 2,900 and 14,000 students. The annual budget will be some 200 million euros.

It will be the fourth biggest university in Finland based on masters theses (ca. 1,300 per year), third biggest with the amount of funding, published international referee and domestic articles.

Based on current fields of education, University of Eastern Finland (and Åbo Akademi) will offer the widest selection of studies after University of Helsinki.

Rankings

The University of Eastern Finland is aiming to be one of the leading multi-disciplinary universities in Finland and among the top 200 in the world.

External links

• UEF.fi – University of Eastern Finland

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