Username and password
Activate your TUNI user account
Identity verification
Password
Mandatory information security training
View your personal data
The Tampere Universities community’s TUNI user account will be created automatically according to person’s right to study or written agreement made in HR services. Basic user rights become available three days before your student status, employment contract or resource agreement becomes effective.
Your TUNI user account is based on information stored in our student records or HR records. Please contact the Student Affairs Office or HR Services if you need to update this information. For example, if your name changes, your display name must be updated in our records.
Your username is generated using random characters and serves as your personal identifier. All TUNI usernames are unique; identical usernames are never created for multiple users. Changing your username is not possible, as any alteration would result in data loss and compromise the integrity and accessibility of information.
Find more information at logging in to the electronic services -page.
Activate your TUNI user account
Before activating your TUNI user account, please read the terms of use and IT regulations.
To activate your account, go to password.tuni.fi:
- Click Start by authenticating.
- Select your identification method (online banking credentials, a mobile certificate, a citizen certificate, eIDAS, Finnish Authenticator). Identify yourself by choosing an identification method on e-identification page
- Finnish means of identification: online banking ID, mobile certificate, or Citizen Certificate card.
- If you do not have a Finnish means of identification: click Identification methods for foreigners at the bottom of the e-identification page. Choose an identification method you can use.
- Read more about identity verification.
- Read and accept the terms of use.
- Create a password (at least 10 characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers or special characters).
- Your new TUNI username and email address will be displayed on screen.
What to do next:
- Enable multifactor authentication (MFA).
- Complete the required information security course.
If you receive an error message stating that you are not entitled to a TUNI user account, please try again the next day. User accounts become available one day after our records have been updated. If you continue to receive the same error message, contact the Student Affairs Office (students) or HR Services (staff).
Users of eIDAS and Finnish Authenticator: If the identification service cannot automatically locate your TUNI user account after verification, enter your personal email address. On the next working day, you will receive an email with further instructions for activating your user account.
Identity verification
When activating your user account, you must verify your identity via the Suomi.fi e-identification service.
You can verify your identity using any of the following Finnish methods:
You can verify your identity using any of the following Finnish methods:
- Online banking ID
- Mobile certificate
- Citizen Certificate card
- Hightrust-id application
Foreign citizens can also verify their identity using the following methods:
- eIDAS (electronic IDentification, Authentication and Trust Services)
- Finnish Authenticator application
- Do not use your TUNI email address when activating Finnish Authenticator. Use a personal email address instead.
- Read instructions for activating the Finnish Authenticator application on the Digital and Population Data Services Agency's website.
- Support for Finnish Authenticator app on https://dvv.fi/en/public-service-info
About using different identification tokens.
If you are unable to use the above-mentioned identification methods, contact IT Helpdesk.
Password
- When activating your TUNI user account, you must create a password. You can change your password at any time at password.tuni.fi.
- All TUNI passwords must be changed every 210 days. You will receive an email notification when it is time to reset your password.
- Password requirements: at least 10 characters, including uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers or special characters.
- If you forget your password or it expires, you can regain access to your account: log in to the Suomi.fi e-identification service and then go to password.tuni.fi to reset your password.
Change yout password at password.tuni.fi
- Enter your login credentials in the Change password section and click Login.
- Read and accept the terms of use.
- Enter your new password and click Change password.
- Close the browser window.
Mandatory information security training
- All users of TUNI services are required to complete an information security course via Moodle. You must complete this course within 29 days of activating your TUNI user account. Failure to complete the course within this timeframe will result in your password being reset.
- Read more about information security training (requires login to the intranet).
View your personal data
Log in with your TUNI username and password at id.tuni.fi. Choose Identity management and then My personal information. The main window displays your personal data, username, contact details and study rights.
In the My personal information section, you can revoke your user rights, change your preferred language and select your primary contract.
- Revoke user rights
To view your user rights, click the downward arrow next to your contract. A list of your active user rights will appear on screen. Click Revoke to terminate an active user right. - Change your primary contract
If you hold multiple valid contracts, you can designate one as your primary contract. This is only possible if the contract types are identical (such as employment contract with TAMK and an employment contract with Tampere University). Select the primary contract by clicking the corresponding button. Please note that your display name in M365 is based on your primary contract. - Change your settings
- To change your preferred language (Finnish or English), first click Change settings. On the My Settings page, select your preferred language. Your language preference determines the default language in some of the systems and services provided by Tampere Universities.
- The My settings page also includes a button for changing your password.
Inactive email accounts
If the User ID and contact details section displays a yellow triangle next to your email address, it means that this mailbox is inactive. You are not able to send or receive emails using this address, but you can still use it to log in to services provided by Tampere Universities.
If you need help, contact IT Helpdesk.
IT Helpdesk
0294 520 500
it-helpdesk [at] tuni.fi (it-helpdesk[at]tuni[dot]fi)
helpdesk.tuni.fi