The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters has invited four new members from the University of Jyväskylä: Professor Pekka Abrahamsson and Junior Visiting Professor Nikolay Kuznetsov from the Faculty of Information Technology and Professor Karoliina Honkala and Professor Mikko Salo from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science. The Academy has […]
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Finnish National Agency for Education launched a study to find out how schools and institutions in primary and secondary education cope with being forced into distance education by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study collates and summarises a number of Finnish studies and reports with the aim of facilitating further reforms […]
Professor of Computer Vision at the University of Tartu Gholamreza Anbarjafari will deliver his inaugural lecture on the applications of computer vision in human-robot interaction with a focus on affective computing. The lecture entitled “Affective Computing: Human Behaviour Analysis Using Computer Vision and Machine Learning” will be held in English […]
The Finnish Government decided, on 30th of March, that restrictions on contact teaching at different levels of education would be valid until 13th of May. However, this deadline was prolonged due to the pandemic situation and distance learning continues to be the national teaching methodology. As it is foreseeable that […]
During the week commencing 31 August, the Department of Health and Welfare (THL) will launch the Koronavilkku mobile app, which is designed to help break coronavirus infection chains. University rectors recommend that the whole university community start to use the app. – In this way we can work together to […]