Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5 Fte (3)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
3
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Helsingin yliopisto (HY)
EU Transparency Register
661042540157-54 First registered on 02 Nov 2020
Goals / Remit
The University of Helsinki is Finland’s largest and oldest academic institution. Since 1640, it has contributed to the establishment of a fair and equal society that is considered the best in the world according to a number of indicators. Today, this multidisciplinary academic community solves problems that concern all of us, also on the global scale. A community of 40,000 students and employees is diversely open, comprehensively quality conscious and joyfully serious. Internationalisation means many things for us. Together we create solutions that will shape the future of our planet and all of humanity.
The University of Helsinki is ranked among the world's best research universities. During the strategic period 2017–2020, the University seeks to meet four major challenges. The digital world, ageing and health, globalisation and sustainable development.Main EU files targeted
Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and other RDI programmes
Research and innovation policy
Erasmus +
Education policy
Health, medicine and veterinary medicine
Agriculture and forestry
Law
Science
Theology
Social sciences
Biology and environment
ArtsAddress
Head Office
PL 4 (Yliopistonkatu 3)
Helsingin yliopisto 00014
FINLANDEU Office
Rue Guimart 7
Bryssel 1040
BELGIUM -
People
Total lobbyists declared
3
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 1 25% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
1.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
In addition, a very large number of researchers are involved in various research projects funded partly or in whole by the EU.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Academic institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
The University of Helsinki participates in a variety of international networks: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/cooperation
Member organisations
Universities Finland Unifi (https://www.unifi.fi/in-english/)
European Univeristy Association, EUA (https://www.eua.be/)
League of European Research Universities (https://www.leru.org/)
Una Europa (https://www.una-europa.eu/) -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
31,000,000 € (Source: Horisontti 2020, Erasmus, Stuctural Funds, Life)
Other financial info
The University of Helsinki’s revenues are based on the financial statements of 2019.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
Regular follow up on public consultations on relevant policy fields
Annual meeting of the management of the University with key stakeholders in EU
Regular meetings with MEPs
Expert consultations in releveant fields of research
The University of Helsinki receives competitive research funding annually, including from EU's framework programmes. The University's share from H2020 is approximately 190 million euros (2014-2020).Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
3 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 25 Nov 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Africa and cooperation on higher education. Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Jutta Urpilainen (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 06 Oct 2021 Location Videoconferece Subject Digitalisation in Africa, AI Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen Portfolio International Partnerships Attending - Olai Voionmaa (Cabinet member)
- Arto Virtanen (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 20 Jan 2021 Location video-call Subject Biodiversity and the preparation of the EU Forest Strategy Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans Portfolio European Green Deal Attending - Helena Braun (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists
- Meetings