On Friday, 27 June 2025, the City of Pori, the University of Turku and the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences signed a letter of intent to develop education, research and innovation in space technology in Satakunta. The name of the collaboration is PoriSat.
The mutual goal of the University of Turku, the Municipality of Utsjoki, and the Sámi Parliament is to examine the central themes related to the biodiversity and changes occurring in the Arctic region. A concrete example of the collaboration is the educational cooperation currently being prepared between the University of Turku and Utsjoki upper secondary school.
In Finland, during the next decades, possibly even for a hundred years, the spent nuclear fuel of Olkiluoto and Loviisa nuclear power plants will be disposed of in canisters into the bedrock at Olkiluoto. The decisions in the final disposal process have a significant impact on safety and cost efficiency of the final disposal. Researchers of the University of Turku have developed a multiobjective scheduling model and a canister loading optimization algorithm to support this decision making.
The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet – created by the University of St Andrews - has had a major new release. The BioTIME database offers unprecedented insight into how biodiversity is changing through time across the globe, spanning nearly 150 years of ecological records from 1874–2023.
A recent study led by the University of Turku, Finland, analysed the DNA map of more than 14,000 gut metagenomes in a global dataset and found that there are differences in antibiotic resistance between genders. In high-income countries, women had more antibiotic resistance genes than men.
In more gender-equal countries, girls tend to avoid natural and engineering sciences more than girls in countries with lower levels of gender equality, according to a doctoral dissertation by M.A. Marco Balducci at the University of Turku. Balducci argues that in more gender-equal societies, individual preferences may have an even stronger influence on educational choices than in less equal societies.
An international research collaboration used AI as research participants and discovered that knowledge-enhanced large language models are able to critically assess forensic expert testimonies.
The Pentti Malaska Futures Award is given to a research-based and groundbreaking visionary innovation that can help with building a more sustainable global future. The University of Turku has granted the €30,000 Pentti Malaska Futures Award to Soilfood Ltd for their solution that connects industry and agriculture into a functioning circular economy.
New research shows that key European Union conservation actions targeting wetland habitats help waterbirds respond to climate warming.
Postdoctoral Researcher Laura Wey has been awarded €1.5 million in research funding for investigating the use of photosynthetic bacteria in the production of green energy.