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AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon
People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use.

UniSport campaign for university staff in March
During March you have an unique opportunity to get to know UniSport's seasonal training card services free of charge. Take your colleagues with you and come and exercise together, for example in Classes for University staff. Welcome to UniSport!

Provost Kristiina Mäkelä encourages the University community to add physical activity to their workday
The Finnish government is urging Finns to increase their physical activity, with the aim of integrating exercise into the everyday life of work communities. In a video interview, Provost Kristiina Mäkelä describes how exercise affects her wellbeing and provides tips on how everyone can easily increase their activity during the workday.

Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies (3cr) coming up in English and in Finnish
Popular course "Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies" will be organized in Finnish and English in the 4th period!
Concentration training -online material is available for students in Finnish and English
Aalto's study psychologists have created this new online course based on research, which you can use to strengthen your concentration skills and find practical solutions to enable focused work in your studies.
Webinar invitation 8.2.: What does physical activity mean to your brain?
Welcome to the webinar on Thursday, 8 February 2024, 9–10 a.m., to learn how physical activity affects the brain and well-being. The webinar will be hosted by neuroscientist Professor Minna Huotilainen in finnish. The webinar recording will be subtitled also in English and Swedish.The webinar is offered by the joint University on the Move project of UniSport and universities, which is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture. We warmly welcome you to join the webinar!

Five things policy-makers should know about improving health care
Tweaking the healthcare system won’t help if its structure provides the wrong incentives, says Paul Lillrank. The professor emeritus of industrial economics gives his views on what’s wrong with Finland’s healthcare system and what should be done about it.

Data bank was assembled to support guidance and wellbeing
The sub-projects of the Koho project support students' well-being and guidance.

Teaching community and pedagogical reflection, support and training are vital for teachers' wellbeing
HowUTeach, teachers' wellbeing questionaire and self-reflection tool was piloted in Oasis of Radical Wellbeing initiative during academic year 2022-2023 and autumn term 2023.

Towards more compassionate life with MyCourses -self study material
With the self-study material, you will learn more about yourself through exercises The course is now available in three languages.

UniSport – the sports centre for the University staff and students
UniSport lowers the threshold for starting exercise even more by reducing the prices of single visits and 10 visit cards for University students. In addition, the range of group exercise classes will be expanded with a combat group exercise class, which was a wish received from the customers.
Five tips to start exercising with UniSport
UniSport reduces the prices of single visits and 10 visit cards for University staff and students. The aim of the price reduction is to lower the threshold for starting exercise with UniSport as well as to offer the opportunity to explore new classes easily without a longer commitment.

Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies is organized also in English
Popular course "Mind & Study - toolbox for being well in studies" will be organized in Finnish and English in the spring!
The AllWell? student survey opens again in February 2024!
The survey is conducted every spring among second-year bachelor’s students and first-year master’s students. This spring, it will be open 1.2-14.2.2024, and it will be emailed to the target group.

Take movement as part of your New Year routines – choose a suitable way from the compilation to add movement to your daily life.
Have you already figured out how to add movement to your daily life and studies? The joint University on the Move by UniSport and universities has produced materials this autumn to promote physical activity in everyday life.

Veera Repka: It's easy to get immersed in the Otaniemi bubble
'If someone were to walk in my shoes in the same way at the beginning of the studies, I would hope that they would not try to achieve everything right away. You can give yourself time and work through things on your own.'

How to use the AllWell? results in programme development - new video released!
Three teachers explain how the results of the AllWell? questionnaire on study wellbeing have been used to develop their school and study programme.

Koos Zevenhoven: The scientific world doesn't know this kind of unusual path very well
'There have also been PhD students in my group, and I haven’t been able to officially act as their advisor. Some of my students have finished their PhD before me.'
Digital virology pipeline brings AI’s expert eye to identifying infections
Microscopy plus machine learning equals a quick, cheap and automated way to detect coronavirus and other pathogens.

It is not too late to add more activity to the end of the year!
Add more movement to your everyday life.
