The new Tampere University holds its first conferment ceremony in August 2022
The three-day conferment celebrations include several events organised mainly at Tampere Hall. A preliminary event is organised on Friday 12 August and it includes a rehearsal of the conferment act. The main event, the ceremonial conferment of doctoral degrees, will be organised on Saturday 13 August. After the conferment act, the doctors and honorary doctors form a procession to walk to Tampere Cathedral for a service. The festivities continue in the evening with the conferment banquet. A garden party organised on Sunday 14 August will conclude the celebrations.
The event is meant for doctoral graduates from the new Tampere University, whose doctoral degree has been approved by the end of March 20221, and for those doctoral graduates from Tampere University of Technology and the University of Tampere who have not yet participated in a conferment ceremony.
At the conferment ceremony, the doctors are presented with a doctoral hat as a symbol of academic freedom and – except for Doctors of Science in Technology or Architecture – the doctoral sword. The promovendi purchase their hats and swords by themselves. Doctor’s hats and their emblems vary between universities and disciplines. The hats and emblems of the new Tampere University honour the traditions of the previous universities.
Read more about ordering the doctor’s hat and emblem as well as the sword on the conferment ceremony website.
Registration for the event can also be done on the conferment ceremony website.
Further information: promootio2022 [at] tuni.fi (promootio2022[at]tuni[dot]fi)
