Cur­rent top­ics from Oulu

Julius Idi­an and Jayson Ril­lo came to Oulu from the Philip­pines. They like their workplace’s cul­ture in Puis­to­la restau­rant. It is friend­ly, gen­er­ous, and sup­port­ive. “Love the way they have trust for Fil­ipinos, even if we don’t speak Finnish”, they say.

Beat­riz Rocha, 25, moved to Oulu in the fall of 2021, when she start­ed her master’s degree. We were curi­ous to know what brought her here and ulti­mate­ly made her stay.

This expan­sion marks a sig­nif­i­cant step for the region’s tourism and busi­ness sec­tors, pro­vid­ing more con­nec­tions to the heart of Cen­tral Europe and beyond.

Inter­na­tion­al House Oulu cel­e­brat­ed one year anniver­sary with a mem­o­rable event that high­light­ed its achieve­ments and con­tri­bu­tions over the past year.

Intor­duc­ing Tomas Sle­sar, a Slo­va­kian native who’s called Oulu home for 14 years. From nav­i­gat­ing the con­trasts of Finnish sea­sons to ful­ly embrac­ing the warmth of Finnish cul­ture.

Are you har­bour­ing a tech busi­ness idea but not quite ready to take the leap into entre­pre­neur­ship? Start­up Pro­gram Man­ag­er Viera Karam presents five steps to becom­ing a start­up entre­pre­neur.

Work­ing in the Finnish city of Oulu lets you build a life that looks like you. Before, dur­ing and after work.

The Win­ter Swim­ming World Cham­pi­onships will return to its roots in Oulu in 2026. The Win­ter Swim­ming World Cham­pi­onships will be one of the inter­na­tion­al high points of the Euro­pean Cap­i­tal of Cul­ture year 2026.

Oulu’s own, orig­i­nal Arc­tic start­up event Polar Bear Pitch­ing made a live come­back after four years. A big crowd at Oulu Mar­ket Square and online around the world watched as ten star­tups one after anoth­er jumped into the Avan­to (Finnish for ice hole) to impress the pan­el of judges with their busi­ness ideas.

A Ger­man edu­ca­tion­al trav­el group vis­it­ed Oulu. The col­lab­o­ra­tion with the city of Oulu pro­vid­ed the group of teach­ers with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to famil­iar­ize them­selves with the Finnish school sys­tem.

Break­ing news! Anoth­er won­der­ful exam­ple of Oulu’s vis­i­bil­i­ty in inter­na­tion­al media due to our win­ter cycling cul­ture and cycling infra­struc­ture.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu is recruit­ing 98 doc­tor­al researchers as part of the new doc­tor­al edu­ca­tion pilot fund­ed by the Finnish Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Cul­ture.

Eduar­do Acos­ta, orig­i­nal­ly from Colom­bia, is research­ing cir­cu­lar econ­o­my at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu. He is also an Inter­na­tion­al House Oulu Ambas­sador.

Ger­man air­line Lufthansa is set to con­tin­ue its direct flights between Munich and Oulu for the upcom­ing sum­mer sea­son. Addi­tion­al­ly, win­ter flights will extend into the next win­ter, estab­lish­ing this his­toric route as a year-round con­nec­tion.

Stu­dents are very inter­est­ed in Oulu’s gen­er­al devel­op­ment and want Oulu to con­tin­ue devel­op­ing. The city of Oulu col­lect­ed stu­dents’ views on devel­op­ing a bet­ter city.

Oulu Uni­ver­si­ty’s adjunct pro­fes­sor and senior researcher Gui­do Giun­ti, the leader of the Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics (DTx) research group, has been award­ed with the Glob­al Patient Inno­va­tor Award,

Beat­riz Rocha, 25, came here to do her master’s degree in Learn­ing, Edu­ca­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy. Cur­rent­ly, she works as a Mar­ket­ing Trainee at Business­Oulu.

Med­ical stu­dent Jer­ry Nguyen has been award­ed Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu’s Stu­dent of the Year 2023. Nguyen sup­ports the stu­dent com­mu­ni­ty with study tips and cheers up the stu­dent com­mu­ni­ty by being spon­ta­neous and ini­tia­tive.

The Mega­Match­mak­ing, a pre­mier recruit­ment fair where recruiters and job­seek­ers have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to inter­act, was held on the 14th of Sep­tem­ber at Tullisal­li in Oulu. One of the major high­lights of the event was the pan­el dis­cus­sion.

Inter­na­tion­al House Oulu is a place at Busi­nes­sAs­e­ma that col­lects dif­fer­ent guid­ance ser­vices for inter­na­tion­al new­com­ers, immi­grants and com­pa­nies that recruit inter­na­tion­al peo­ple under the same roof. Wel­come to vis­it!

Jun Naka­mu­ra is orig­i­nal­ly from Japan. Cur­rent­ly, he stud­ies MSc. in Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu.

Inter­na­tion­al House Oulu brings togeth­er guid­ance and coun­selling ser­vices for inter­na­tion­al cus­tomers on a sin­gle-win­dow basis under one roof, says Coor­di­na­tor Riku­pekka Leinonen.

She­fat Islam is orig­i­nal­ly from Bahrain. Cur­rent­ly, she is a com­mu­ni­ca­tions intern and stud­ies MSc. in Mar­ket­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu.

Are you look­ing for work? Plen­ty of jobs can be found in Oulu and near­by region for met­al indus­try pro­fes­sion­als. Be the next to get a job in the met­al indus­try!

Oulu is the first loca­tion in Europe where Sil­i­con Val­ley start­up Alif Semi­con­duc­tor has estab­lished a pres­ence. Why did the firm decide to come to Oulu after set­ting up two offices in Cal­i­for­nia, one in Sin­ga­pore and one in Ban­ga­lore, India?