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
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...
3.10.2025
INVEST Master’s Student Yuting Li Honored with GGP Best Master Thesis Award 2025
Yuting Li, a master’s student in the INVEST master’s programme, has been awarded the international GGP Best Master Thesis Award...
1.10.2025
Unique data resources for world-class research
INVEST has developed two new register-linked datasets that have taken research infrastructure to an entirely new level. Register–genome data combinationWe...
1.10.2025
Interventions that improve everyday life
At INVEST, research and societal impact go hand in hand: we not only design and test interventions, but also study...
Events
DPINVEST seminar series: Eija Lindroos and Kaisa Elovaara
31.10.2025 - 31.10.2025
Child and Adolescent Psychosocial Well-being and Mental Health
05.11.2025 - 05.11.2025
.Join us for short presentations on ongoing projects and studies on child and adolescent psychosocial well-being and mental health at...
Disseration defence (sosiology): FaT Katri Aaltonen
06.11.2025 - 06.11.2025
FaT Katri Aaltonen defends the dissertation in Sociology titled “Austerity, health payments and economic well-being” at the University of Turku...
