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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.

E-service

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.

lakiasiat@tieteentekijat.fi

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

President of the Union

Tero Karjalainen, PhD

UNION BOARD 2023

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