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The new Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland, Tom Dodd, visited the University of Turku on Wednesday, 24 January. According to Mr Dodd, Brexit is a phase in the British history that defines the entire nation, and separation from the EU will happen next spring as planned. Mr Dodd wishes that the relations between the UK and the EU will remain good.

The Namibian students at the Department of Teacher Education on Rauma campus explored the contents of crafts and technology education during the Pedagogical implementations of developing material technologies course. The teacher education of the Namibian students is a unique transnational education project in Finland.

The Finnish Work Environment Fund granted funding for Collaborative colleagueship – WORK2 -research project. The two-year project studies work communities from the perspective of active colleagueship. The project is conducted by the subject of management and organization at the Turku School of Economics.

Wiley has promised access to January 2018 articles during the acceptance process of the agreement offer.

According to a national register study comparing Finnish birth cohorts from 1987 and 1997, an increasing number of adolescents receive a psychiatric or neurodevelopmental diagnosis. The number of diagnosed adolescents increased especially for girls in the younger cohort. The results of the study conducted by the University of Turku and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) were published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal.

Scientists have been familiar with Finnish landforms for decades. Now, however, researchers from the University of Turku have discovered a new landform previously unknown to science with the aid of laser technology. After the initial discovery in Finland, similar forms have also been found in Sweden.

Saga, Muinaisjutt, Märchen, Cuento de Hadas, Fiaba… Fairy tales have different names in different cultures, but they are known all over the world. You might think they are just stories for children, but originally fairy tales were also told to adults. They were often intertwined with myths, legends and other types of stories.

Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku has established a Laboratory of Business Disruption Research in order to research and develop management and realisation models for business disruptions. The partners of the Laboratory are Aller Media Finland, Bayer Nordic SE, IBM Finland, OP Financial Group, PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers Oy), Rolls-Royce Oy Ab and Valmet Automotive Inc.

Historically, grandmothers have been important to their grandchildren, and the help provided by grandmothers has increased grandchild survival during the times of high child mortality. However, there have been signs that in many populations, the impact of maternal grandmothers and paternal grandmothers on their grandchildren has been different. A recent study shows that X-chromosome relatedness between grandmothers and their grandchildren did not affect grandchild survival in the 18th and 19th century Finland.

The Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Turku receives a donation of €3 million for the mathematical modelling of complex systems. The donation supports long-term top research in mathematics significantly and enables new, multidisciplinary openings.