Easing the ability to study while receiving unemployment benefits is an excellent decision from the government’s budget negotiations. However, curbing the growth of RDI (Research, Development, and Innovation) funding unnecessarily hampers growth and productivity.

A total of 75 TEK members were chosen as councilors and 77 as deputy councilors in the municipal and county elections.

Overall, a quarter of newly graduated architects and academic engineers saw themselves working abroad five years after graduation. The figure is even higher amongst non-Finnish respondents.

The weak economic trend has lowered the threshold for offering and accepting unpaid work in architects’ offices. The phenomenon is common in southern Europe and has become more common in the other Nordic countries. 

The pay gap between men and women in the technology industry has hardly narrowed at all in more than a decade. This is shown by the 2023 Labour Market Survey conducted by the Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK.

In the best Jäynä, or practical joke, citizens were asked for ideas for new sounds for electric cars.