events<\/a> are already in full swing. The Conferment Committee is discussing with the faculties\u2019 response centres, which decide the University\u2019s general instructions regarding the coronavirus situation, about what kind of safety precautions would help to improve the safety of the events. However, the Committee does not wish to compromise the Conferment experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not an option for the Committee to make the event partially or fully virtual,\u201d Koskinen adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the past two years people have grown weary of virtual events and they do not offer the same kind of collective experience as do events that are held in-person. Koskinen reminds that the Conferment Ceremony is a unique way to celebrate one\u2019s degree together with the entire university community in a truly magnificent setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll graduates are equally important. We don\u2019t find it worthwhile for our participants, if we were to offer them an incomplete experience without all the dignified venues for the festivities or the jubilant atmosphere of the ceremony this time,\u201d states Koskinen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The arrangements will follow the authorities\u2019 instructions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
There have been multiple varying estimates on how the pandemic will develop in the following months. The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health evaluate in their latest situation update on the coronavirus that the peak of the Omicron wave might have already passed in the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa. However the past few years have taught us that the COVID-19 pandemic can take unexpected turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe will comply with the authorities\u2019 instructions as well as the decisions made by the university\u2019s response centres when making the arrangements for the event. It is of course possible, that we have to cancel the Conferment Ceremony altogether, even though we most definitely don\u2019t want this to happen,\u201d says Koskinen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should the ceremony be cancelled, all the paid participation fees will be returned to the participants by the university. However, the members of the Conferment Committee still have a lot of will and determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe whole Conferment experience is well worth all the work after all,\u201d Koskinen concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The registration for the Conferment Ceremony is open until 7th March, 23:59 PM. Read more.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Conferment Committee responsible for organizing the 99th Conferment Ceremony of the Faculty of Philosophy has had to tackle a difficult question: will it truly be possible to organize the already once postponed Conferment Ceremony this spring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yleinen-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fil-promootio.helsinki.fi\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}