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The University of Turku is an inspiring and international academic community of 25,000 students and staff in Southwest Finland. We build a sustainable future with multidisciplinary research, education, and collaboration.

The Faculty of Humanities, founded in 1920, is the oldest of the eight faculties at the University of Turku. It comprises two schools: the School of History, Culture and Arts Studies, and the School of Languages and Translation Studies. The mission of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Turku University is to generate new information and understanding through research, and to provide high quality teaching.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is a vibrant scientific community of two thousand academic individuals. Its nearly 200 teachers and researchers and ca. 1,800 students all take an active role in the activities and development of the faculty. The Faculty includes altogether three departments comprising one or more fields of study and research.

The three departments are: the Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, the Department of Social Research, and the Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History and Political Science.

The Faculty also hosts the INVEST Research Flagship Centre, which aims to provide a new model for welfare states that is more equal, better targeted towards problem groups, more anticipatory as well as economically and socially sustainable.

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The University of Vienna is the central and most important actor in the internationalisation of the tertiary sector in Austria. This is related to the size of the University, its spread of subjects, the attractive location and the active pursuit of the internationalisation strategy.

Roughly one quarter of students are non-Austrians, more than 2,700 exchange students are welcomed and supported at the University each year. Conversely, the University assists the mobility of around 1,000 outgoing students. One third of academic staff of the University of Vienna comes from abroad, the percentage of newly appointed professors from abroad is over 70 %.

The University raises over EUR 15 million from the European funding sources every year. More than 70 partner universities, approximately 370 ERASMUS partner universities and memberships in organisations such as EUA, UNICA, ASEA-UNINET, and ACUNS ensure excellent international networking at an institutional level.

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