The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee (FIRI Committee) within the Research Council of Finland has selected 21 research infrastructures to Finland’s national roadmap for research infrastructures 2025–2028. The University of Turku is involved in the implementation of eleven infrastructures.
In the international collaboration, researchers develop reliable digital platforms to encourage people to participate in decision-making.
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.
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.
This new European research project aims to convert solar energy and CO2 into butanol by unlocking the potential of photosynthetic microbes. The consortium S2B - Solar to Butanol is coordinated by the University of Turku.
University of Turku researchers Sarah Malamut, Tiina Turunen, Daniela Alaattinoğlu, and Joni Teräväinen have received prestigious research funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Funded projects explore the causes and effects of school bullying, the legal inclusion and exclusion of Sámi people, and decades-old mathematical problems.
Jovana V. Milić, starting as an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Turku, has received esteemed research funding from the European Research Council (ERC). Milić received the funding for a project that aims to develop a new generation of smart and environmentally friendly materials, such as for more effective use of solar energy in photovoltaics and brain-inspired computing.
The new project will investigate the role of housing and longitudinal careers as determinants of later and forgone parenthood in the Nordic countries.
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.
University of Turku Professors Johanna Ivaska and Lauri Nummenmaa have received significant research funding from the European Research Council ERC. Ivaska received funding for a project that aims to discover how the biological limits of a healthy body influence cancer progression. Nummenmaa’s project examines the link between a person’s negative emotions and their physical well-being.