Åbo Akademi University

	Åbo Akademi University Åbo Akademi University ( , ) is the only exclusively Swedish language multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). It is located mainly in Turku (Åbo is the Swedish name of the city) but has also activities in Vaasa. Åbo Akademi should not be confused with the The Royal Academy of Turku, Royal Academy of Åbo, which was founded in 1640, but moved to Helsinki after the Great Fire of Turku, Turku fire of 1827 and is today known as the University of Helsinki. Åbo Akademi was founded by private donations in 1918 as the third university in Finland, both to let Turku again become a university town and because it was felt that the Swedish language was threatened at the University of Helsinki. The Finnish University of Turku was founded in 1920, also by private donations and for similar reasons. Åbo Akademi was a private institution until 1981, when it was turned into a public institution. As the only uni-lingually Swedish multi-faculty university in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
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	University Of Turku The University of Turku (, shortened ''UTU'') is a multidisciplinary public university with eight faculties located in the city of Turku in southwestern Finland. The university also has campuses in Rauma and Pori and research stations in Kevo and Själö. Established in 1920, the university is the third largest in the country as measured by student enrollment, after the University of Helsinki and Tampere University. It is a member of the Coimbra Group and the European Campus of City-Universities (EC2U). History Royal Academy of Turku The first university established in Turku was the Royal Academy of Turku, founded on March 26, 1640, by Queen Christina of Sweden at the suggestion of Count Per Brahe. It originated from the Turku Cathedral School, which had been established in 1276. The Royal Academy was the third university in the Swedish Empire and the only one in Finland during the period of Swedish rule. In 1809, after Russia's victory over Sweden in the Finnish Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Åbo Akademi University Åbo Akademi University ( , ) is the only exclusively Swedish language multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). It is located mainly in Turku (Åbo is the Swedish name of the city) but has also activities in Vaasa. Åbo Akademi should not be confused with the The Royal Academy of Turku, Royal Academy of Åbo, which was founded in 1640, but moved to Helsinki after the Great Fire of Turku, Turku fire of 1827 and is today known as the University of Helsinki. Åbo Akademi was founded by private donations in 1918 as the third university in Finland, both to let Turku again become a university town and because it was felt that the Swedish language was threatened at the University of Helsinki. The Finnish University of Turku was founded in 1920, also by private donations and for similar reasons. Åbo Akademi was a private institution until 1981, when it was turned into a public institution. As the only uni-lingually Swedish multi-faculty university in the wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Modern Universities In Europe (1801–1945) The list of modern universities in Europe (1801–1940) contains all University, universities that were founded in Europe after the French Revolution and before the end of World War II. Universities are regarded as comprising all institutions of higher education recognized as universities by the public or Clergy, ecclesiastical authorities in charge and authorized to confer academic degrees in more than one Faculty (university), faculty. Temporary foundations are also included. Where institutions not meeting the definition of a University are included (e.g. university colleges) these are indicated by footnotes. At the outset of the 19th century, European universities had been severely affected by the Napoleonic Wars, their number falling in the brief span of time between 1789 and 1815 from 143 to 83.Rüegg 2004, p. 3 By 1840 their number recovered to 98 universities with approximately 80,000 students and 5,000 professors. Notwithstanding the trend towards specialized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Education In Finland The educational system in Finland consists of daycare programmes (for babies and toddlers), a one-year "preschool" (age six), and an 11-year compulsory basic comprehensive school (age seven to age eighteen). As of 2024, secondary general academic and vocational education, higher education and adult education are compulsory. During their nine years of common basic education, students are not selected, tracked, or streamed. There is also inclusive special education within the classroom and instructional efforts to minimize low achievement. After basic education, students must choose to continue with secondary education in either an academic track ('' lukio'') or a vocational track (''ammattioppilaitos''), both of which usually take three years and give a qualification to continue to tertiary education. Tertiary education is divided into university and polytechnic ('' ammattikorkeakoulu'', also known as "university of applied sciences") systems. Universities award licentiate- and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Moira Von Wright Moira Johanna von Wright (born 23 December 1957)''Finlands ridderskaps och adels kalender 1965'', p. 559. is a Finnish and Swedish academic, who has been the rector of first Södertörn University 2010–2016 and Åbo Akademi University between August 2019 and October 2021. Career Von Wright was born in Helsinki, Finland, and grew up in Turku, Finland. Professor of Pedagogy (from 2007) and Pro-Rector (from 2008) of Örebro University. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo for two years and a visiting fellow at Cambridge University In 2010–2016, she was rector of Södertörn University College. Her tenure proved controversial and she was openly criticised for an authoritarian leadership style. Von Wright was appointed rector at Åbo Akademi University Åbo Akademi University ( , ) is the only exclusively Swedish language multi-faculty university in Finland (or anywhere outside Sweden). It is located mainly in Turku (Åbo is the Swedish name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Lars Erik Taxell Lars Erik Taxell (6 April 1913 – 7 October 2013), was a Finnish legal scholar and politician. He was the leader of the Swedish People's Party of Finland in 1956–1966. He was also the Rector (academia), Rector of the Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, in the 1950s and its chancellor in the 1980s. Taxell was born in Vaasa, in the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1913. He studied law at the University of Helsinki. He earned a PhD in law in 1946, on the fundamental question of the relationship between democracy and the rule of law. In 1948–1976, he was a professor of private law and jurisprudence at the Åbo Akademi. His extensive scientific contributions were mainly in the areas of corporate law and contract law, later also in issues related to law and democracy. Taxell was the first Finnish person to be awarded the Nordic Lawyer Prize in 1984. He served as Chancellor of Åbo Akademi University in 1981–1984, in the early years of Åbo Akademi having become a state universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Otto Andersson (musicologist) Otto Emanuel Andersson (27 April 1879 – 27 December 1969) was a Finnish musicologist. Andersson studied first at the Helsingfors musikinstitut (now the Sibelius Academy), becoming a teacher there. He studied folklore and music from 1908 onwards, and gained his Ph.D. in 1923 at the University of Helsinki. From 1926 on, he held the Robert Mattsons chair in musicology and folklore at the Åbo Akademi. In 1906, he formed the Brage Society, dedicated to Finland's Swedish folk music and culture, serving later as the group's chairman and choirmaster. Andersson founded three music magazines, wrote a variety of valuable essays and collected and arranged traditional Swedish, Finnish and Estonian folk songs and dances. He also served as a contributor to the ''Svensk uppslagsbok'' dictionary, producing music-related entries. Selected works ''Violinists and Dance-tunes Among the Swedish Population of Finland Towards the Middle of the Nineteenth Century''. Novello, 1912 ''Svensk up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Edvard Westermarck Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 in Helsinki – 3 September 1939 in Tenala) was a Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. Biography Westermarck was born in 1862 in a well-off Lutheran family, part of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland. His father worked at the University of Helsinki as a bursar, and his maternal grandfather was a professor at the same university. It was thus natural for Edvard to study there, obtaining his first degree in philosophy in 1886, but developing also an interest in anthropology and reading the works of Charles Darwin. His thesis, The History of Human Marriage, was published as a book in 1891, and would be published again in a substantially revised edition in 1921. In 1892, Westermarck became a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Helsinki. While at the university, he became the chairman of the Prometheus Society, a student society promoting religious freedom. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Vasa övningsskola Vasa övningsskola (VÖS) is a Swedish-speaking normal school in Vaasa, Finland. VÖS is a part of Åbo Akademi University, and its Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies located in Vaasa. It is the only Swedish normal school in Finland. VÖS provides preschool, primary and lower and upper secondary education, and in addition is one of the 17 schools in Finland with an International Baccalaureate IB Diploma Programme, upper secondary school programme. The predecessor of VÖS was ''Wasa Trivialskola'', which was officially founded in 1684, although teaching began already in 1611. The name ''Trivialskola'' refers to the ''Trivium (education), trivium'', and in that time, the subjects were religion, Latin language, Latin and Greek language, Greek. In 1844, the school changed its name to ''Vasa Gymnasium''. In the Vaasa#Town fire, town fire of Vaasa in 1852, the school building was destroyed, and upon rebuilding, the school was located to its present location in the center of the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Tucs Turku Centre for Computer Science (abbr. TUCS, , ) is a joint department of University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. TUCS was founded on March 21, 1994. The mission of TUCS is to coordinate the education, research and societal interaction of the affiliate Universities in the field of ICT. The TUCS office facilities are located in Turku in the Turku Science Park area. Departments involved in TUCS University of Turku Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Department of Information Technology. Department of Mathematics and Statistics Turku School of Economics The Institute of Information Systems Sciences Åbo Akademi University Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology Computer Science Computer Engineering Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics Information Systems Organization Turku Centre for Computer Science coordinates education and research Computer Science (understood in a broad sense) in Turku. TUCS is governed by a board. The Director of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]