Keyword: University Communications

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Researchers of the University of Turku are working in co-operation with the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM), an agriculture university in Molina, Peru, to develop the research and utilisation of the native food plants of the Andes. The university will establish a doctoral programme in food science as well as a centre of excellence which will promote the multidisciplinary research of the native plants and UNALM’s collaboration with the local food companies.

Quantum physicists will try out new methods in solving the mysteries of science. A group of enthusiastic professionals from different disciplines will gather to Tuorla Observatory of the University of Turku, and their mutual aim is to create games which will produce new knowledge. The results will be presented at the Science Café on 14 December, where SF-author Hannu Rajaniemi will also give a presentation.

While monitoring the exceptional supernova SN 2013fc, Doctoral Candidate Tuomas Kangas from the University of Turku serendipitously discovered a new supernova in the same host galaxy.

​Tuomas Kangas discovered the new supernova on 17 November 2014 using images taken at the ESO-operated telescope NTT (left). Supernova 2013fc had exploded in the same galaxy in the previous year (right).

Svetlana Samsonova from National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia, has been spending her one-month Erasmus Mundus Aurora staff exchange period in November 2014 working at the International Office at the University of Turku.

The book that opens up the concept of the memory box is an international cooperation between the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku and the department of historical cultural sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

​Editors Heta Aali (left) and Anna-Leena Perämäki present their new book in the Janus lobby.

– The boy could come home under any circumstances, whether he had succeeded or not, President Martti Ahtisaari, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work to solve international conflicts, described his principles of upbringing at the public discussion panel held at the University of Turku. The event was organised in the framework of the Ahtisaari Days, held annually in November since 2011 to highlight the importance of peace mediation and reconciliation.

The representatives of Finland University Ltd, which exports education, are negotiating about commencing forestry education in Indonesia with the Indonesian government. The goal is to develop the use and protection of natural resources with education and research.

The University is constantly striving towards internationalisation which is also important to take into account when organising the support services. One of the University’s new operations is the more determined production of international staff services.

​Tarja Saksi (left), Eeva Schoultz, Satu Alanko, Petri Mäkinen and Heli Lankinen form the International Staff Services team.

Experts in the water sector introduced the visiting Chinese Ministry of Water Resources officials, hosted by the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, to the themes and solutions related to flood water control and the quality of water.