TIETEELLISTEN SEURAIN VALTUUSKUNNASTA

Their core work

The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) is Finland's national umbrella body representing over 250 scientific and scholarly societies across all disciplines. Their core function is to promote science culture, support scholarly publishing, and act as a bridge between the Finnish research community and the wider public. In EU projects, they contribute their unique position as a national-level intermediary — able to mobilize multidisciplinary scientific communities, facilitate national science communication campaigns, and implement responsible research practices across diverse academic fields. They are not a laboratory or technical institute; their value lies in institutional reach, science policy expertise, and the ability to engage broad, cross-disciplinary networks of researchers.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (2016-2017), TSV focused on national science communication — connecting researchers with Finnish society during the country's centenary, with a strong arts-and-science and multidisciplinary framing. By their second project (2021-2024), the focus had shifted decisively toward European-scale research governance: open science, research integrity, misconduct, and responsible research and innovation. The evolution reflects a maturation from domestic science promotion toward influencing the structural and ethical norms of how European research is conducted and reported.

TSV is clearly moving from domestic audience engagement toward European research policy and governance — making them a relevant partner for future projects on research assessment, open science infrastructure, or responsible innovation frameworks.

How they like to work

TSV participates exclusively as a consortium partner — never as project coordinator — which reflects their role as a national-level facilitator rather than a project management organization. They bring institutional legitimacy and network access to consortia rather than technical leadership. With 21 distinct partners across 9 countries from just two projects, they engage with broad, internationally diverse teams, suggesting they are valued as a national node within larger European coordination efforts.

TSV has engaged 21 unique consortium partners across 9 countries in only two projects — a notably high partner-to-project ratio indicating they join large, multi-stakeholder consortia. Their network spans at least nine European countries, consistent with their participation in pan-European coordination and support actions.

What sets them apart

TSV is Finland's only national-level federation representing the full breadth of the scientific community across all disciplines — a position no university, institute, or single learned society can replicate. For consortium builders needing a Finnish science policy voice or a conduit to Finland's academic societies, TSV provides institutional credibility that individual universities cannot. Their combination of science communication capacity and emerging research integrity expertise makes them particularly relevant for Coordination and Support Actions targeting research culture change.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ROSiE
  The largest and most recent of their two projects, ROSiE placed TSV in a European consortium directly shaping responsible open science policy — their most substantive EU engagement to date.
• CHANGE
  An early MSCA-CSA project that used Finland's national centenary as a platform for science-society dialogue, demonstrating TSV's capacity to mobilize national scientific communities for public engagement campaigns.