Keyword: University Communications

How will the collaboration between different actors bring Turku region another step closer to the social welfare and health care reform? The question was discussed in the Health Campus projects seminar and the social welfare and health care service structure reform seminar, which were organised by the Health Campus Turku and the polytechnic Master's degree students of the Turku University of Applied Sciences at ICT City on 2–3 October 2017.

Researchers from the Universities of Turku and Helsinki, Finland, are the first in the world to discover which species adult dragonflies and damselflies prey upon, as modern laboratory techniques enabled the study of the insects’ diet. In the study, prey DNA was extracted from the tiny dragonfly droppings and the researchers managed to identify dozens of prey species from the samples. The results shed light on dragonflies’ position in natural food webs with an unprecedented specificity.

Nordic Institute of Dental Education (NIDE) organised two advanced level CAD/CAM continuing education courses in Helsinki on 4–8 September with the help of American lecturers. The lecturers also visited the Institute of Dentistry at the University of Turku.

On Tuesday, 26 September, a beginner's course to Bahasa Indonesia, i.e. Indonesian language, was launched at the University of Turku. In addition to Rector Kalervo Väänänen, for example the Ambassador of Indonesia to Finland Wiwiek Setyawati Firman participated in the opening event.

The Health Campus Turku network includes the Hospital District of Southwest Finland, University of Turku, Åbo Akademi University, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Novia University of Applied Sciences, and Turku Science Park as a new member.

The University of Turku is involved in a collaboration project called WIVE, the aim of which is to develop concepts, enable technologies and test new services offered by 5G, especially in automated transport and media delivery.

Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei from China and Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Jari Leppä from Finland visited the Seili Island with their delegations on 20 September 2017 in order to learn more about the marine research conducted at the Archipelago Research Institute of the University of Turku. The visit was also about exploring other Finnish research in the water sector, and Finnish water technology companies' expertise.

The probiotics research group at the Functional Foods Forum of the University of Turku has published, together with the Spanish Dairy Institute of Asturias and the National University of the Littoral in Argentina, a review of the in vitro studies on probiotic selection and their relationship to in vivo studies and clinical trials.

A consortium led by Professor Maija Setälä, University of Turku, has received funding from the Strategic Research Council.

Ghadah Ibrahim is clearly inspired by phenomenon-based teaching. That is a teaching method where teachers of different subjects can collaborate and study the same phenomenon from the perspective of many different subjects. It is a novel teaching method for the Saudi teacher, one of the gems she has discovered while improving her teaching skills at the Department of Teacher Education of the University of Turku.