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Akava is comprised of 36 affiliate unions representing individuals with higher education. There are two ways of searching information: by field of education or by degree.

Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT)

FUURT is a trade union for researchers, teachers and other academic experts who are employed by universities and reserch institutions. Union members are primarily organised into local associations on the basis of sharing the same workplace - instead of a shared professional field.

Over half of members are employed on a fixedterm basis and a large share also work under a grant time to time. Individuals can join FUURT through one of its member associations.

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Tehtävä ja toiminta

We exert active influence through publicity and interest groups on, for example, the status of fixed-term employees, the position of junior researchers, the employment of doctors as well as the funding of universities and research. We offer our members a wide range of benefits from training and career services to insurance security and legal counselling.

The Union has 15 member associations of which 13 are based on university campuses, offering local activities. In addition, we have two national associations, the Finnish society of academic researchers SATY and the Information service academics (INA)

Who can join

The most common titles of our members include university lecturer, junior researcher, doctoral researcher, postdoctoral researcher and senior researcher.

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