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The Student Life is the JYU's way to support students in their studies and develop studying conditions. In addition to the development of student services at departments and service units, JYU also promotes various projects to develop University functions.

The JYU's work in developing innovative services for student well-being has been noticed by HEIs in Finland and abroad. Based on the previous Student Life work, JYU is coordinating a wide co-operation project  of 11 universities, which is focusing on developing study ability, student well-being and accessibilily (). At the moment we working on with two large joint initiatives concerning  , and .

Possible thesis topics

We welcome theses which will deepen our understanding of things having an impact on students or study conditions, either negative or positive, along the whole study path from student recruitment to employment.

It must be noted that the topics targeted at teaching contents or pedagogics are excluded.

For more information on the Student Life Development work, see 

Who can apply?

• The grants are targeted primarily at students who are preparing for or working at the early stage of their master's theses. The research setup (research goal and methods) should be clear.
• If the topic meets the Student Life objectives closely, the master's work may be proceeded as far as a stage of data analysis (the data can be collected, but not analyzed yet). You also need to have a named supervisor.
• We encourage students to consider using our available data sets when applicable. The sets are mostly in Finnish.

For further information about the Grants and application instructions, please visit .