Due to the mutated strains of COVID-19, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) now recommends avoiding all non-essential domestic travel as well. The University of Eastern Finland’s coronavirus guidelines have been updated to correspond to THL’s recommendation. The updated guidelines now advise against all non-essential travel, both domestic and foreign.
At the University of Eastern Finland, teaching in the autumn semester 2021 is prepared to be organised without any restrictions on physical attendance, facility capacities or group sizes. The well-being of teachers and students plays an important role in the planning of next autumn’s teaching. However, it is likely that the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t fully […]
Due to the worsening coronavirus situation in Kuopio, the regional coronavirus coordination group now recommends remote work also to those who live in the same household with someone who has been exposed to the coronavirus. The objective of the recommendation is to prevent the region from entering the community transmission phase of the epidemic, which […]
Due to the coronavirus situation, the University of Eastern Finland has decided to suspend the arrival of international exchange students from abroad for the duration of the spring semester. The arrival of international exchange students is suspended until 31 July 2021. The arrival of international exchange students to the University of Eastern Finland was suspended […]
Hi student! How did your studies go during last fall? How have you been? How well have you managed to recover? The exceptional year of 2020 is now behind us, so we hope you could take a moment to reflect on the past Autumn and answer this questionnaire. We would like to emphasise that the […]
Due to the coronavirus situation, the University of Eastern Finland’s Sports Afternoon will be postponed to Tuesday, 23 March 2021. The original plan was to organise the Sports Afternoon on 16 February. Sykettä University Sports will inform of the Sports Afternoon’s programme later on.
Hi UEF- student! How have your studies been going during this fall? How have you been? How well have you managed to recover? The term is already over and the holiday season is almost here, but we hope you can still take a moment to reflect on the past Autumn and answer this questionnaire. We […]
Welcome to a UEF info session on Thursday, 3 December, starting at 14.00. The topics of the info session include the coronavirus situation and the university’s related guidelines. The info session will be led by the university’s Rector, Academic Rector and Director of Administration. To join the info session, please go to https://www.uef.fi/live1/ Questions and […]
Exposed students and teachers will swich to online learning for two weeks, and Sykettä university sports services are discontinued for the remainder of the year in Joensuu Several cases of COVID-19 have been discovered among students on the Joensuu Campus, and there are also several separate chains of transmission in the city. Students and teachers […]
Student, protecting yourself from coronavirus also protects your roommate, grandparents and siblings It is a fact that we will have to live with coronavirus for some time still. What’s more important is knowing the best ways to prevent infections. By protecting yourself from infection you also protect your family and friends. Even if you do […]
