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Wisdom and wellbeingforus all Competence for the future since 1863
WISDOM AND WELLBEING FOR US ALL
Competence for the future since 1863
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The vision of the University of Jyväskylä is to be a global leader in the fields of learning and teaching.
JYU has great opportunities to achieve this. The University has a strong tradition of promoting culture and education. Around the mid-1800s, Uno Cygnaeus was enthusiastic to educate the people and created a programme for organising primary school education in Finland. He spoke for a school system that would provide general education and practical subjects, aiming at the mental and physical development and wellbeing of individuals. Cygnaeus’ plan was realised in 1863, when a teacher seminary was established in Jyväskylä, on the current university campus. Based on the town’s central location, the first Finnish-medium secondary schools for boys and girls were also established in Jyväskylä. The foundation of the world-famous school system was created at our university, and we are very proud of it!
Nowadays, EduCluster Finland, a subsidiary of the University of Jyväskylä, exports Finnish education expertise all over the world. High-class education expertise promotes the wellbeing of individuals and communities.
The Open University of the University of Jyväskylä is the largest in Finland. It produces about 25% of the open university education in Finland. The studies offer a way to raise the public’s educational level, which creates wellbeing for people and the whole society.
JYU is internationally renowned in educational sciences, which are its traditional strong area, and hosts the only faculty of sport and health sciences in Finland.
The University of Jyväskylä has six strategic core fields: • Learning, teaching and interaction • Physical activity, health and wellbeing • Basic natural phenomena and mathematical thinking • Sustainable business and economy
• Language, culture and society
• Information technology and the human in the knowledge society.
The purpose of the Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences is to promote the wellbeing of citizens. The faculty’s operations are strongly connected to JYU’s strategic core areas of ‘physical activity, health and wellbeing’ and
‘learning, teaching and interaction’. The faculty studies the effects of physical exercise on health and produces research data to promote physical activity from early childhood to old age.
The strategy focuses on creating competence and wellbeing for individuals. The wellbeing of each member of the community is important, as is ensuring that everyone has opportunities to grow and develop. With the help of high-quality scientific research and education, we promote the comprehensive wellbeing and competence of individuals in society.
JYU’s research and education in psychology, humanities and the natural sciences are also at an internationally distinguished level.
The purpose of the Student Life activity, developed at the University of Jyväskylä, is to help students to progress in their studies and develop the conditions and quality of studying. The development work is based on research, including support for research projects and master’s theses that relate to the topic.
