Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

University of Turku (UTU)
UTU is the second largest university in Finland and has almost 19,000 students and a 
staff of 3000. There are seven faculties. The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural 
Sciences includes the Department of Chemistry and seven other departments, while 
the Faculty of Medicine is divided into four main institutes, including the Institute of 
Biomedicine, which hosts the Department of Pharmacology, Drug Development and 
Therapeutics.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
VTT was founded in 1942. It is the largest multitechnological applied research 
institute in northern Europe and has facilities in ten Finnish cities. It produces 
technological research, development and testing services to the private and public 
sector. In 2007, the institute had a turnover of EUR 230 million and a staff of 2740. 
VTT has undergone several restructurings. In 1994, the 39 laboratories and four 
divisions were replaced by nine independently accountable research institutes. In 
2002, the number of institutes was further reduced to six. The organisation was again 
changed in 2006 into a matrix organisation where the R&D work was carried out in 
46 Knowledge Centres while the function of the seven Knowledge Clusters was to 
facilitate cross-organisational synergy. The accounting principles were also changed. 
The Process Chemistry Knowledge Centre was grouped first under the Energy and 
Pulp & Paper Cluster with six other centres and later moved to the Biotechnology 
Cluster. As of 2010, VTT has been organised as VTT Group, consisting of VTT 
Expert Services Ltd, VTT Ventures Ltd and VTT International Ltd, including some 
changes in the centres and clusters.