HUS year 2024: Improvement of research services

Research at HUS

• approximately 3,000 research articles published per year 
• total funding for research, development, innovation and teaching activities is approximately 50 million euros
• participating in more than 30 EU-funded research and development projects

In 2024, we granted: 

• 942 research permits (new 349, amended 593),  
• 149 degree thesis research permits,
• 3 data access permits for researchers and organizations outside HUS,
• 1,115 applications for opinions of the Ethics Committee.

Functioning research services ensure high-quality research

Improvement of processes and tools

• The research and data access permit process was clarified and instructions were written for the various roles.
• We completed an app for providing research consents which was introduced in January 2025.
• We continued piloting the AI-assisted ‘Ask about research’ bot. 
• We started collecting regular customer feedback from researchers.

Improvement of collaboration and communication

• The collaborative area of Southern Finland started a collaborative network of research services, which meets monthly. 
• Our regional committee on research ethics developed its activities at the national level.
• We developed support functions for researchers.
• We started publishing a regular newsletter to enhance communication with researchers.
• We actively visited the units and various events to talk about services.

We invest in applying for funding through collaboration and training

In 2024, the total funding for HUS research, innovation and teaching activities was approximately 50 million euros. Of this, HUS’s own research funding accounted for 17 million euros and the Government’s research funding (VTR) accounted for 10 million euros.

HUS and the clinical researchers at HUS were very successful in obtaining outside funding. In 2024, we established our position among organizations in Finland that have received EU’s research, development and innovation funding, ranking at 16th place in Business Finland’s statistics.

We also tightened our collaboration with the experts in research funding at the University of Helsinki and HUS at the Meilahti campus. In the fall, a new series of research funding seminars, Winning Bid, started as a collaboration between the University and HUS. Together, we also organized an information event for researchers interested in applying for funding from the Research Council of Finland.