Helsinki Suspended University-Level Exchanges
The university’s May 2024 decision affected two Israeli partner institutions.
The University of Helsinki reassessed its collaboration and announced a full suspension of university-level exchange activity with Israeli partners. Its mobility register identifies the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University and specifies student, teacher and researcher exchanges.
The register identifies which mobility arrangements were affected. Measuring the effect on actual participation would require figures for applications, placements and cancellations before and after the suspension.
Which exchanges were interrupted
The university’s register names two partners and three categories of mobility. That makes the decision more specific than a general freeze on academic cooperation. A student placement, a teaching visit and a researcher exchange can have different funding and replacement options. The register does not publish a count for any of them.
The Porthania campaign called for action extending beyond mobility to collaborative research. Reading its demands against the exchange register shows where the two records overlap: two named partners and formal exchanges. A researcher working on a joint project cannot infer from the suspension alone that a grant was terminated.
Police and transport records by country
Evidence outside the campus case
Policing and dispersal. A procession towards the Israeli embassy in Helsinki was halted. The local account describes the intervention without an expenditure total. Local reporting on the Helsinki procession