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Centres of excellence in teaching

The University of Helsinki rewards its faculties and departments for high quality teaching by selecting every three years centres of excellence in teaching and granting these departments or institutes performance-based funding. The evaluation of performance is based on the self-evaluations of the quality of teaching conducted at the departments. The assessment criteria consist of the criteria compiled in the Teaching Evaluation Matrix, which specifies in concrete terms the University’s strategic aims and development challenges. All the departments that submit a proposal for performance-based funding will receive feedback as part of the evaluation process.

Detailed information on the principles of the criteria applied in the evaluation of the quality of teaching can be found in the attachments below:
Instructions for performance-based funding (.pdf)
Teaching Evaluation Matrix (.pdf)

Centres of excellence in teaching 2007–2009

• Faculty of Medicine (also in 2006 and 2007)
• Department of Finnish Language and Literature
• Faculty of Pharmacy (also in 2006)
• Department of Education (also in 2004)
• Department of Social Psychology (also in 2004)

Centres of excellence in teaching 2006

• Faculty of Theology
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Pharmacy
• Department of Psychology
• Department of Social Psychology

Centres of excellence in teaching 2005

• Department of Physical Sciences
• Department of Home Economics and Craft Science
• Department of German
• Faculty of Theology
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Social Science History

Centres of excellence in teaching 2004

• Department of Food and Environmental Hygiene
• Department of Education  
• Faculty of Medicine
• Department of German
• Department of Economics
• Faculty of Theology
• Department of Computer Science