The Master’s Degree Programme in Nordic Cultural and Social Resilience (NOCURE), tackles the questions of how societies react and adjust to cultural, environmental and social change.
Neutron stars are made out of cold ultra-dense matter. How this matter behaves is one of the biggest mysteries in modern nuclear physics. Researchers developed a new method for measuring the radius of neutron stars which helps them to understand what happens to the matter inside the star under extreme pressure.
The French government has given Louis Clerc, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Turku, the Chevalier decoration of the Ordre des Palmes académiques, the national order of France for distinguished academics, on 13 October 2017. Professor Clerc received the recognition for his contributions to the cultural relations between Finland and France.
Today, people rather write than talk with each other, even in close relationships. Communication is dominated by different forms of social media, in which communication is mainly done by writing, says visiting lecturer Professor Daniel Perrin.
An international research group led by Postdoctoral Researcher Erkki Kankare has discovered a new population of extremely bright explosions in distant galaxies. These may be the brightest supernova explosions ever observed. Several researchers from the University of Turku are involved in the study.
The Central Baltic Springboard joint project with Riga, Tallinn and Turku came to an end in October 2017. The Finnish partners were the University of Turku and Turku Science Park Ltd. In the last two years, Springboard enabled cross-border mentoring, meetings, and exchanging ideas between dozens of start-ups and teams. The goal of this novel project was to accelerate the growth of the participating start-ups and its results exceeded the goal even better than expected.
The ECOPRODIGI project funded by the European Union from the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme involves shipyards, shipping companies and other key actors around the Baltic Sea region.
The Phoenix science award of the Turku Finnish University Society was granted to Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa for her significant and creative interdisciplinary research on evolution.
Stories have power, in both good and bad. According to Professor of Comparative Literature Hanna Meretoja from the University of Turku, some cultural practices of storytelling are connected to repressive mechanisms of power, while other practices are empowering.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius from Lithuenia gave a lecture at the University of Turku on Tuesday, 24 October, on the Baltic Sea security policy. Linkevičius, who was invited to talk by the Centre for Parliamentary Studies, focused both on Russia's conflict-causing role and on international collaboration in the prevention of these conflicts.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius.