Psykonet - A University Network of Psychology

Website: http://www.psykonet.fi/english

Background
Psykonet is a university network of psychology consisting of all the six departments of psychology in Finland that award a legally certified degree needed to work as a practicing or academic psychologist in the country. The network was established at the end of 1980s, as the outcome of a group of academic psychologists´ suggestion to the Ministry of Education that instead of reducing the number of psychology departments, new challenges could be imposed on a network consisting of all of them. From the beginning, there were three clear targets for the joint action: the teaching of psychology, graduate training and continuing education of practicing psychologists.