Evaluation Report Publications of the Academy of Finland 1/11

Research environment
The infrastructure is very good and the costs for maintaining, running and renewing 
the infrastructure are covered by external funding. There is a general positive feeling 
about this. There is also good administrative and technical support.

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Education is not the primary task of this unit, but recently a VTT graduate school 
has been founded: VTT pays full-time PhD students who perform their research at 
VTT under the supervision of a VTT researcher with a PhD degree and in collaboration 
with a university professor (since VTT does not give any degrees). Nearly half of the 
researchers with PhD degrees are also adjunct university professors. It might be 
advisable to push for more professor appointments to strengthen the link to the 
academic environments, in particular for the sake of the students.