The Ministry of Education and Culture allocates EUR 255 million to Finnish universities for piloting new practices in doctoral education in 2024–2027. This additional funding is allocated to 1,000 doctoral researchers who will have a three-year employment contract to complete their doctoral research. The funding is distributed among the universities based on the Academy of Finland's November call for proposals.
The national Doctoral Education Pilot aims to:
If you have an English version of your educational documents, these would be preferred. If your documents are in another language, you do not need them translated. Please notice however that you need to submit either Finnish, Swedish or English versions of your education documents when you apply for a doctoral study right. More information about this is on our website.
Doctoral pilot | Applications | Positions |
---|---|---|
Doctoral Education Pilot in Precision Cancer Medicine | 400 | 122 |
EDUCA Flagship Doctoral School Pilot Project | 196 | 22 |
Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence | 269 | 20 |
Doctoral Education Pilot for Mathematics of Sensing, Imaging and Modelling | 65 | 17 |
Quantum Doctoral Education Pilot | 49 | 17 |
National Doctoral Education Pilot Based on Immune System | 62 | 10 |
Graduate School in Particle and Nuclear Physics | 19 | 7 |
Circular Materials Bioeconomy Network: From Bio-based Resources to Advanced Materials | 44 | 6 |
Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of Social Services | 78 | 6 |
Doctoral Pilot in Software Engineering | 61 | 5 |
Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot | 69 | 4 |
Total | 1312 | 236 |
Doctoral Programme in Computer Science | 230 |
Doctoral Programme in Biomedicine | 192 |
Doctoral Programme in School, Education, Society and Culture | 155 |
Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences | 98 |
Doctoral Programme in Drug Research | 80 |
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Research | 71 |
Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics | 63 |
Doctoral Programme in Integrative Life Science | 61 |
Doctoral Programme in Cognition, Learning, Instruction and Communication | 49 |
Doctoral Programme in Particle Physics and Universe Sciences | 38 |
Doctoral Programme Brain & Mind | 35 |
Doctoral Programme in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences | 34 |
Doctoral Programme in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences | 26 |
Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources | 23 |
Doctoral Programme in Microbiology and Biotechnology | 22 |
Doctoral Programme in Language Studies | 20 |
Doctoral Programme in Population Health | 16 |
Doctoral Programme in Economics | 15 |
Doctoral Programme in Materials Research and Nanoscience | 15 |
Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture and Society | 11 |
Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal, and Regional Changes | 10 |
Doctoral Programme in Oral Sciences | 18 |
Doctoral Programme in Law | 7 |
Doctoral Programme in Geosciences | 7 |
Doctoral Programme in Philosophy, Arts and Society | 7 |
Doctoral Programme in Atmospheric Sciences | 5 |
Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health | 5 |
Doctoral Programme in Clinical Veterinary Medicine | 3 |
Doctoral Programme in Wildlife Biology | 2 |
Doctoral Programme in Theology and Religious Studies | 1 |
Doctoral Programme in Human Behaviour | 1 |
Doctoral Programme in History and Cultural Heritage | 1 |
As indicated by the applicant.
Faculty of Science | 406 |
Faculty of Medicine | 316 |
Faculty of Educational Sciences | 210 |
Faculty of Social Sciences | 141 |
Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences | 84 |
Faculty of Pharmacy | 73 |
Faculty of Arts | 35 |
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry | 24 |
Faculty of Law | 8 |
Faculty of Theology | 7 |
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine | 4 |
Swedish School of Social Science | 3 |
Total | 1311 |
Only universities with 5 or more applications shown.
University of Helsinki | 231 |
University of Oulu | 36 |
University of Turku | 29 |
Tampere University | 22 |
Aalto University | 21 |
University of Jyväskylä | 21 |
Uppsala University | 15 |
LUT University | 12 |
University of Eastern Finland | 10 |
University College London | 8 |
University of Health sciences, Lahore | 6 |
University of Glasgow | 6 |
Comsats University Islamabad | 6 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 5 |
University of Trento | 5 |
University of Padova | 5 |
University of Gondar | 5 |
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 5 |
University of Ghana | 5 |
KU Leuven | 5 |
Blekinge Institute of Technology | 5 |
National University of Singapore | 5 |
Only countries with 10 or more applications shown. Altogether we received applications from 88 nationalities.
Finland | 259 |
China | 249 |
Pakistan | 220 |
India | 85 |
Nigeria | 57 |
Islamic Republic of Iran | 54 |
Russian Federation | 24 |
Ethiopia | 22 |
Bangladesh | 21 |
Ghana | 17 |
Türkiye | 16 |
Vietnam | 14 |
Italy | 14 |
Sri Lanka | 13 |
Egypt | 12 |
France | 10 |