University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki, established in 1640, is the largest and most versatile university in Finland. It includes eleven faculties: Agriculture and Forestry, Arts, Behavioural Sciences, Biosciences, Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, Social Sciences, Theology, and Veterinary Medicine. The university has around 38,000 students working on degrees and 7,000 employees. The Academy of Finland, which is an expert organisation in research funding and science policy, has designated 11 units of the University of Helsinki as National Centres of Excellence in Research for 2002-2007, 13 units for 2006-2011 and 12 units for 2008-201339. The University of Helsinki is a member of the League of the European Research Universities (LERU).

In 2009, the University of Helsinki is pooling together the departments of Translation Studies and General Linguistics (including Language Technology). The Department of Linguistics is well known for its pioneering work in computational morphology and finite state parsing. The Department of Translation Studies has long standing experience in multilingual terminology, both in practical terminology work and in terminology management technology development projects.