An international project is developing new methods to help paramedics identify patients with cardiorespiratory diseases and stroke who need urgent care. The aim is to reduce the time it takes to treat patients and improve outcomes.
Assistant Professor, Docent Daniela Alaattinoğlu wrote her application with her one-month-old daughter in a baby sling. With the support of the Faculty, she was awarded funding in the first round of applications.
An international and interdisciplinary group of researchers has compiled a proposal for a new paradigm for economic performance and sustainability, promoting cooperation and ethical behaviour as key drivers of economic success.
A new study from the University of Turku showed that reducing daily sitting prevented back pain from worsening over six months. The result strengthens the current understanding of the link between activity and back pain as well as the mechanisms related to back pain.
The Finland-China Food and Health Network (FCFH), a global pilot by major universities and universities of applied sciences in Finland and in China will hold its concluding event at the Mauno Koivisto Centre in Turku on 3–4 October 2024 gathering top researchers from Europe and China to discuss the future of collaboration in food, health, and sustainability, bringing together top researchers from Europe and China to discuss the future of collaboration in food, health and sustainability.
An international research group found that wall lizards use specific behaviours more than colour or physical traits to settle territorial disputes. These results deepen our understanding of the complex social life of lizards.
A joint Nordic research project is developing new types of environmentally friendly smart textiles. The prototypes developed in the project will be displayed in an exhibition at the University of Turku, in the Natura building, from 1 to 11 October. The exhibition will be opened on 1 October at 14.00, followed by public lectures on the themes of the exhibition.
A new study reveals that sex differences in academic strengths are found throughout the world and girls’ relative advantage in reading and boys’ in science is largest in gender-equal countries.
Researchers working in Finland propose that the unique light environment of the Earth’s Polar regions creates conditions that result in circumpolar hybrid zones around the North and the South Poles. These extreme conditions increase the synchrony of reproductive phenology among species, i.e., force all species into a smaller window for reproduction. This will sustain biodiversity in the long term.
The AlgaCircle project, funded by Business Finland, aims to create an innovative circular economy concept that produces food, feed and agrochemicals from microalgae. The project has received over €1 million in funding.