Call for presentations for Diaspora Business
Diaspora Business The Diaspora & Business Project: 1st Global Meeting Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Diaspora Business The Diaspora & Business Project: 1st Global Meeting Wednesday 15th July – Friday 17th July 2015 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
The Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) invites applications for 10 postdoctoral and 12 collegium researcher positions for a fixed-term period of three years. The TIAS research collegium promotes cutting-edge research in humanities and social sciences by recruiting researchers who are committed to interdisciplinary and innovative research. The call for applications opened on 12 February and closes on 13 April 2018.
The Turku Quantum Technology research team has joined the international IBM Q Network as part of the Centre of Excellence in Quantum Technology of the Academy of Finland. The aim of the network is to promote the development of quantum computers and to create new applications based on quantum technology. The European universities included in the network were announced at the World Conference of Science Journalists held in Lausanne on 3 July 2019.
A company based in Turku, PianoDuo ConFuego Company Oy, is donating €100,000 to the University of Turku. The donation will be allocated to neurological research on the impact of listening to music on the results of treating patients with brain diseases. The donation event was organised on 19 December 2019.
Sustainable development is one of the most central themes in the strategies of the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. As an aspect of the policy programmes of their strategies, the universities strengthen the role of sustainable development in their course selection. For the first time this spring, the universities in Turku will offer a course on sustainable development for doctoral students, ”Multidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development”.
The STIMULUS project consortium is developing new tools to assess adverse changes in microcirculatory status associated with hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart failure, leading to earlier detection of cardiovascular diseases. STIMULUS is funded by the EIC Pathfinder, a Horizon Europe funding scheme that supports research teams to develop the scientific basis for breakthrough technologies.
The Human Diversity research consortium, led by the University of Turku, studies human diversity from the perspectives of language, genetics, culture and health. We are now opening three new and unique assistant professor positions for the multidisciplinary research consortium. We are looking for assistant professors in Evolutionary Language Sciences, Archaeogenomics, and Evolutionary Health. The application period ends on 13 March 2024.
The Education Finland cluster organised a three-day event for invited Dubai Expo guests on the VIP floor of Finland’s Snow Cape Pavilion in mid-December 2021. The University of Turku Global Educational Services team, the University management and experts on teacher education participated in the event and programme.
The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationally, in order to make wide-reaching science with concrete impact.
Is Europe a divided continent or a united union? The Europe Forum organised in Turku for the sixth time is focused around this question. The Forum changed its dates to August–September and will also relocate to new venues: A Speakers’ Corner hosted by Director of the Centre for Parliamentary Studies Markku Jokisipilä will be located at Turku market square, other event venues include the Sigyn hall on Linnankatu street as well as the premises of the Turku Conservatory and Arts Academy.