The quality of our research is evaluated at regular intervals. In 2022, we carried out a comprehensive international assessment of our research (TAU RAE 2022). The assessment was conducted by three international panels and focused on the units of our faculties. The panel Chairs also separately assessed the instruments for supporting research at the university level. The results will be utilised to develop the preconditions for research at the unit, faculty, and University levels. Read the report of TAU RAE 2022 (pdf).
In 2022, we carried out a comprehensive international assessment of our research.
Our University’s publication profile remained the same as in the previous years. As was the case in the previous year, 34.5% of our peer-reviewed scientific publications fell within the scope of the top two quality categories in the national three-tier evaluation system of Publication Forum. In line with the University’s strategy, the share of openly available publications is clearly growing and rose to 83%. The number of international peer-reviewed joint publications also increased by about one per cent from the previous year.
Significant growth in research funding
External research funding grew significantly. The amount and use of international competitive research funding grew notably from 2021. The University has increased the amount of EU framework programme funding for research and innovation faster than estimated and has already exceeded the target that was initially set for 2024. The level of domestic financing has also risen from the pre-pandemic level.
At the end of 2022, the University was running ten projects funded by the European Research Council, four of which were launched during the year. In 2022, the Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland allocated funding from the European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Facility particularly to research infrastructures. Tampere University received approximately EUR 4.7 million for three infrastructures.
The amount and use of international competitive research funding grew significantly from the previous year.
In 2022, the University coordinated four Centres of Excellence in research funded by the Academy of Finland. The newest of these, the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research, began operations at the beginning of the year. The University also participated in the activities of six other Centres of Excellence, three of which were launched in 2022.
The Academy of Finland funds a total of ten flagship competence clusters. Tampere University coordinates one of them (PREIN – Flagship of Photonics Research and Innovation) and is involved in two others (ACCC – Atmosphere and Climate Competence Centre and UNITE – Flagship for Forest-Human-Machine Interplay).
Find out more about these projects and research excellence at Tampere University.
Tampere IAS call for applications and funding for emerging fields
The University opened a second call for research fellowships at the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study (Tampere IAS). 18 new fellows were selected in the international call. At the end of the year, the Tampere IAS hosted 36 research fellows. Read more about Tampere IAS.
With profiling funding from the Academy of Finland, the University strengthened its emerging fields in line with its strategy by financing tenure track professorships, postdoctoral research fellow positions and multidisciplinary projects. In 2022, the University applied for new profiling funding in four new themes that intensify cooperation between emerging sectors. A total of EUR 8.2 million in funding was received and the projects will start at the beginning of 2023.
First conferment of doctoral degrees
In August, 235 doctors who had graduated from the new or previous universities were conferred at the new Tampere University’s first Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees. The new University also conferred its first honorary doctors.
235 doctors were conferred at the new University’s first Ceremonial Conferment of Doctoral Degrees
In pictures: The Conferment Ceremony was a celebration of academic achievements.
Tampere University confers 14 honorary doctors at its first Conferment Ceremony on 13 August.
Tampere University’s conferment of doctoral degrees 2022 on YouTube.
Meet our new professors on YouTube.