Academic year
One year at the University includes many events such as the opening ceremony of the academic year and opening carnival, Flora, graduation ceremonies, public examinations of doctoral thesis, inaugural lectures of new professors and the University’s anniversary celebration.
is held in the University’s Great Hall on the first Monday of the first teaching period. In addition, the afternoon festivities of the opening day include an collaboratively organised by the Student Union and the University. is held in March, when the J. V. Snellman Award is presented to a member of the University community for outstanding efforts to disseminate scholarly knowledge.
are held twice per academic year, always close to the end of each term in December and May. May also sees the celebration of , a celebration of spring for University students. The faculties organise for their students at the end of the spring term, in addition to which some faculties also celebrate graduates at the end of the autumn term.
Doctoral thesis projects culminate in where doctoral candidates publicly defend their research. is an event where the insignia associated with master’s and doctoral degrees are conferred on graduates in a formal conferral of degrees. Faculties organise conferment ceremonies according to varying cycles: some more often, others, for example, every five years.