Contact Us
Membership service
- Guidance to members in Union membership matters
- Guidance to employers in member matters
- Maintaining the Union registers
Through the electronic membership service, you can easily update any changes to your contact details or employment relationship. You can also check and pay your membership fees in the service. The e-service is available 24/7 – whenever it suits you best.
Contact us by email: jasenpalvelu(at)tieteentekijat.fi
Telephone service for membership matters is available on Mon-Thu at 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. , tel. +358 (0)207 589 619
The price for calls to numbers starting with (0)207 is 0.088 €/minute + VAT 24%.
Legal counselling
Telephone service is available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m. – 16 p.m. , tel. +358 (0)207 589 621.
At other times please contact by email.
Read more about the legal counselling for members.
Unemployment security
The Unemployment Fund for Education and Science helps in matters concerning earnings-related unemployment benefits.

Address
Emails are form: firstname.lastname(at)fuurt.fi or firstname.lastname(at)tieteentekijat.fi
Address: The Finnish Union of University Researchers and Teachers (FUURT)
Rautatieläisenkatu 6, 00520 Helsinki
Data Protection Officer
Contact
tietosuojavastaava@tieteentekijat.fi
Union board and shop stewards

Personnel

Executive Director
Johanna Moisio, PhD
tel. 0207 589 612
Twitter: @JoMoisio
- Direction of the operations of the Union
- Advocacy work
- Higher education and science policy
- Requests for opinions and nominations
- Promotion of interests: employment conditions

Executive Assistant
Elisa Rantoharju, MA
tel. 0207 589 624
- Support to the Executive Director and the President of the Union
- Event and meeting planning

Membership Service Specialist
Marsa Nyqvist-Hämäläinen
tel. 0207 589 614

Senior Adviser
Miia Ijäs-Idrobo, PhD
tel. 0207 589 622
- Science and higher education policy
- Promotion of interests: early career researchers, grant researchers and mobility issues
- Salary counselling
- International cooperation
- Coordination of FUURT surveys
Please contact primarily via email (miia.ijas@tieteentekijat.fi).

Senior Adviser, Labour market policy
Nina Hahtela, PhD
tel. 0207 589 616
- Promoting the well-being of academics
- Labour market and employment policy
- Social security and pensions policy
- Seeking improvements to working conditions in higher education and research environments
- Equality and equal opportunity issues
- Protecting the interests of academics in universities of applied sciences

Development specialist
Ira Laitakari-Svärd, MA
tel. 0207 589615

Financial Manager
Sanna Hoikka, MBA
tel. 0207 589 613
- Financial planning and monitoring
- HR management

Head of Communications
Eevastiina Aho, MSc
tel. 0207589623
- Overall planning of communications
- Media connections and partnerships

Communications Designer
Milla Talassalo
tel. 0207 589 625
- Online communication
- Visual communication
- Coordination of internal communication

Union Lawyer
Salla Viitanen, LLM, MA
On leave of absence until 10/2023.

palaute(at)acatiimi.fi
Twitter @Acatiimi
