INVEST
INVEST Research Flagship Centre aims at providing a new model for the welfare states that is more equal, better targeted to problem groups, more anticipatory as well as economically and socially sustainable. Based on cutting-edge research on the conditions and mechanisms involved at different periods of development, INVEST will evaluate and develop various universal and targeted interventions to improve the efficiency of the current welfare state institutions at critical points of the early life course.
News
7.11.2025
INVEST visitor: Bálint Menyhért
In the “INVEST visitors” series, we present visiting professors and fellows who have arrived at the flagship INVEST. This time...
31.10.2025
Invest visitor: Samir Kumar Praharaj
In the “INVEST visitors” series, we present visiting professors and fellows who have arrived at the flagship INVEST. This time...
30.10.2025
Jani Erola appointed Academy Professor
The Research Council of Finland has appointed Professor Jani Erola, Director of the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University...
20.10.2025
The KiVa antibullying program spreads around the world from Turku
– The best part is seeing trainers from all over the world realize that bullying can actually be prevented –...
20.10.2025
Mapineq consortium identifies long-term investments and rapid-response interventions as key to reducing inequality
Sustained investments in people’s well-being—combined with swift, targeted support when difficulties arise—are essential to strengthening social equality across Europe. This...
17.10.2025
Professor Elina Kilpi-Jakonen Receives NordForsk Funding for New Nordic Research on Youth Well-Being and Education
Professor Elina Kilpi-Jakonen has received additional funding from NordForsk for the project Young First: Nordic Evidence on the Well-Being–Education Nexus and...
Events
What are effective ways to reduce inequality and support disadvantaged children in schools?
20.11.2025 - 20.11.2025
This academic year, the INVEST thematic research area “Education, Skills & Learning” led by Prof. Johanna Kaakinen brings monthly ☕coffee table discussions on...
DPINVEST seminar series: Yujing Li
21.11.2025 - 21.11.2025
FIRE Education and training -workshop
21.11.2025 - 21.11.2025
We invite you to the first FIRE Education and training -workshop Preliminary programme for the workshop: Briefly about the FIRE...
