Prof. Jörg Becker was invited as opponent for the doctoral defense of Tapio Versäläinen at the University of Turku, Finland. Versäläinen's dissertation is titled “Forecasting Future Events with Publicly Accessible Online Data – A Study on Finnish Parliamentary Elections from 2015 to 2023” and was supervised by Prof. Reima Suomi.

The University of Turku has been an active partner institution in the European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) network since its founding.