Keyword: INVEST Research Flagship Centre
Maternal grandmothers’ support buffers children against the impacts of adversity
A study conducted at the University of Turku shows that investment by maternal grandmothers can improve the well-being of grandchildren who have faced adversities in life. The positive effects can last well into adulthood.
Current Intersections of Culture, Language and Wellbeing Seminar
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GROW project receives over €200 000 in funding from the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship
The project will investigate the long-term impact of student employment on the lives of university students.
KiVa enters Mexico now also in Spanish language for a country wide implementation
Instituto Escalae will start distributing KiVa program in Mexico also in Spanish. Institute, led by Federico Malpica, is a long-time parter of the KiVa Antibullying Program with successful years operating in Mexico in English.
INVEST Conference 2024
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INVEST is the first Finnish Flagship to get an external assessment
Research Flagship Centre INVEST is commissioning an international external assessment of its activities and future options as the first Finnish Flagship. The assessment will help INVEST and its host organisations to decide on the future of its activities after the end of the current flagship period.
A two part webinar series on school and online bullying
INVEST Research Flagship and KiVa Antibullying Program open up the opportunity for everyone to hear the latest information on school and online bullying.
INVEST Conference: Digitalization, social inequality and behavioural change
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To invest in labour markets means to invest in people
Most of the time, what stands in peoples’ way of finding a job is neither a lack of will nor a lack of skills. Rather, it is insufficient information about options or sheer hopelessness. To invest in labour markets means to invest in people, which in turn requires to focus on their needs.