Professor Alfred W. Crosby receives Award for Scholarly Distinction from AHA

Vesa Varpula — 2013-01-07T15:03:34+02:00

Professor Alfred W. Crosby, foreign Academician of Science of the Academy of Finland, has received the esteemed Award for Scholarly Distinction awarded by the American Historical Association (AHA) for his lifetime achievements.

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Anita Westerback — 2012-12-20T13:40:48+02:00

The Academy of Finland newsletter keeps you updated on leading-edge scientific research funded in Finland and on other news from the Finnish world of science and research.

Synthetic and biological nanoparticles combined to produce new metamaterials

Leena Vähäkylä — 2012-12-19T18:07:51+02:00

Scientists have succeeded in organising virus particles and other protein cages into crystalline materials with other nanoparticles. Dr Mauri Kostiainen of Aalto University Department of Applied Physics led the research, and the results have now been published in Nature Nanotechnology. The Academy of Finland has funded the study.

Two problems in chemical catalysis solved at University of Jyväskylä Department of Chemistry and NanoScience Center

Leena Vähäkylä — 2012-12-20T12:46:45+02:00

The research group of Professor Petri Pihko at the Department of Chemistry and the NanoScience Center of the University of Jyväskylä has solved two acute problems in chemical catalysis. The research has been funded by the Academy of Finland.

English-language report on state of scientific research in Finland 2012 out now

Vesa Varpula — 2012-12-12T10:52:25+02:00

A European strategy to tackle the great challenges of agriculture and food security under climate change

Riitta Tirronen — 2012-12-07T10:37:19+02:00

The Strategic Research Agenda of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) sets out the strategic priorities for transdisciplinary and innovative European research on agriculture, food security and climate change and provides a framework for the alignment of existing programmes and joint research efforts to achieve the twin objectives of food security and combating climate change.

Update of roadmap for research infrastructures underway

Vesa Varpula — 2012-12-05T16:21:15+02:00

Project proposals for the national road for research infrastructures can now be submitted in the Academy’s online services. The deadline for submitting proposals is 1 February 2013.

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Anita Westerback — 2012-11-29T15:39:29+02:00

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Science Adviser position available in Brussels

Vesa Varpula — 2012-11-29T14:52:46+02:00

The European Comission Joint Programming Initiative Oceans and the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) are looking for a scientific adviser to join the JPI Oceans secretariat.

Science Europe calls on EU leaders to safeguard Europe’s future by protecting its research and innovation budget

Vesa Varpula — 2012-11-15T10:56:06+02:00

Ahead of the EU summit on 22 and 23 November devoted to the European budget for the next seven years, Science Europe has issued a Position Statement calling for adequate funding for research and innovation at European level.

Conference on socially and environmentally responsible mining

Anita Westerback — 2012-11-01T16:46:47+02:00

The conference on socially and environmentally responsible mining will discuss questions such as the following: What is the role of social and environmental responsibility in the global development of mining businesses? How should the management of mining and community relations, as well as any local mining conflicts, be effectively achieved? What does "responsible mining" mean in different societal and cultural contexts? The conference brings together mining companies, researchers and various mining policy stakeholders and presents some recent research results from Finland and Central Asia.

Academy’s international activities reorganised

Vesa Varpula — 2012-10-31T15:33:21+02:00

The Academy of Finland is in the process of reorganising its international activities and dividing them between the different units at the Academy. The move is part of an effort to make international activities and cooperation an increasingly integral part of all Academy functions.

European Commission invites ideas on directions for future technological research

Vesa Varpula — 2012-10-26T14:54:44+03:00

For more than ten years now, the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme at the European Commission has been investing in research into future technologies. The Commission would now like to hear from scientists, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs and citizens what will be the game-changing technologies of the next decades.

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Anita Westerback — 2012-09-28T15:22:07+03:00

Academy telephone numbers to change on 3 October 2012

Marjo Aaltomaa — 2012-09-28T10:32:47+03:00

Academy telephone numbers to change on 3 October 2012 The Academy of Finland will have new telephone numbers as of Wednesday 3 October 2012. The change is part of the new telephone number system adopted by the Finnish central government. Our new switchboard number is +358 29 533 5000. After the change, our Academy phone numbers will begin with +358 29 533. An up-to-date list of contacts is...

September call deadline extended until 27 Sep 2012

Vesa Varpula — 2012-09-26T13:16:01+03:00

The deadline for the September 2012 call has been extended until Thursday 27 September 2012 at 16.15. Earlier today, there were some technical difficulties with logging in to the online services, but the problems have now been fixed.

Brochure on FiDiPro Programme out now

Anita Westerback — 2012-09-25T15:33:32+03:00

A new brochure, Teaming up with the best, presenting the FiDiPro programme has come out. The brochure describes the aims and application process of the programme in a nutshell. It also includes comments on the programme by some of the FiDiPro Professors.

Forestcluster Ltd is now Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC Ltd

Riitta Tirronen — 2012-08-22T14:08:33+03:00

Forestcluster Ltd, the Strategic Centre for the forest sector, is expanding its activities from research focused on the forest industry also towards other areas of the bio-based economy. As a result of the metamorphosis, the company's new name is now Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC Oy.

The first membrane protein structure solved in Finland

Leena Vähäkylä — 2012-08-17T15:28:55+03:00

As a first in Finland, an Institute of Biotechnology research group has solved a membrane protein structure. Sodium pumping pyrophosphatases may in the future be part of biological battery systems. Solving the structure might also help fighting malaria and other diseases caused by protozoa.

Academy’s calls for research funding presented at all Finnish universities

aila pirinen — 2012-08-21T16:12:20+03:00

"What should Europeans eat?" A scientific session at ESOF 2012 in Dublin

Risto Alatarvas — 2012-06-15T11:13:21+03:00

The Academy of Finland will organise a scientific session at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) 2012 in Dublin on Saturday, 14 July 2012. The Academy's session, with a discussion on nutrition, includes researchers Toni Steer from the UK, Iris Erlund and Mikael Fogelholm from Finland, and Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos from Greece.

Successful joint European research on religion as a social force

Vesa Varpula — 2012-06-12T07:12:01+03:00

The NORFACE ERA-NET (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe) was a partnership between European research councils to increase funding cooperation in the social sciences. Running between 2007 and 2010, NORFACE brought together twelve national funding agencies to launch the research programme Relemerge, Re-emergence of Religion as a Social Force in Europe, which was coordinated by the Academy of Finland. Among other things, Relemerge was focused on examining the rising significance of religion. The goal was to create true cross-border research collaboration and coordination between the projects funded through the programme. According to a recent evaluation report published by the Research Council of Norway, Relemerge was successfully implemented and accomplished its goals very well.

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Anita Westerback — 2012-05-03T13:17:40+03:00

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European agriculture and food security: FACCE – JPI launches its first European project

Anita Westerback — 2012-04-11T14:08:31+03:00

Today, FACCE - JPI announced the approval for funding of its first joint action. This action brings together 67 research groups from 17 countries and aims to improve the characterisation of European food security due to climate change and to enhance adaptation capacity through improvements in modeling of impacts of climate change. This ambitious project has estimated total costs of around 15 million €.

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Anita Westerback — 2012-03-29T13:21:41+03:00

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Government Foresight 2030 - a report on sustainable growth and well-being in Finland

Vesa Varpula — 2012-03-21T11:07:19+02:00

On 20 March 2012, the Prime Minister's Office launched a project to prepare a report on Finland's long-term future. The theme of the foresight report is sustainable growth and well-being in Finland.

Share your views at Future 2030 participation forum

Vesa Varpula — 2012-02-29T15:54:06+02:00

Academy and FAPESP sign cooperation agreement

Vesa Varpula — 2012-02-21T13:20:30+02:00

Academy and FAPESP sign cooperation agreement (17 Feb 2012) The Academy of Finland has entered into an agreement on research funding cooperation with the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The cooperation agreement was signed on 16 February 2012 in connection with Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen’s meeting with Governor of São Paulo Geraldo Alckmin in São Paulo, Brazil. The...

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Vesa Varpula — 2012-01-27T13:41:27+02:00

Centres of Excellence 2014–2019: call for letters of intent in April 2012

Vesa Varpula — 2012-01-27T14:44:34+02:00

“BONUS a good example of successful cooperation”

Riitta Tirronen — 2012-01-12T10:54:42+02:00

“BONUS is a good example of how Baltic Sea research cooperation can be done successfully. The coordination of the BONUS programme serves as a good role model for organising international cooperation,” says the Minister of Environment of Sweden, Lena Ek. Minister Ek visited the Secretariat of the Joint Baltic Sea Research and Development Programme BONUS in Helsinki on Wednesday.

New protein required for human embryonic stem cell renewal discovered

Riitta Tirronen — 2011-12-21T09:03:52+02:00

A research group led by Professor Riitta Lahesmaa at Turku Centre for Biotechnology has discovered a new protein L1TD1 exploiting genome wide transcriptomics. This RNA-binding protein is highly expressed by human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and is required for their renewal.

Heikki Mannila appointed President of the Academy of Finland

Vesa Varpula — 2011-12-20T09:07:05+02:00

The Government of Finland has appointed Professor, Vice President for Academic Affairs Heikki Mannila President of the Academy of Finland. The post will be filled for the period between 1 March 2012 and 28 February 2017.

Nanomechanical resonator used as amplifier for quantum physics measurements

Eetu Lehto — 2011-12-15T12:57:09+02:00

Nanomechanical resonator can be used as an amplifier for measurements in quantum physics Physicists at the Low Temperature Laboratory of Aalto University have shown how a nanomechanical oscillator can be used to detect and amplify feeble radio waves or microwaves. A measurement using such a tiny device, resembling a miniaturised guitar string, can be performed with the least possible disturbanc...

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-12-14T13:09:19+02:00

ScienceNordic.com – News on research in the Nordic countries

Risto Alatarvas — 2011-11-23T10:09:33+02:00

The new online news service http://sciencenordic.com/ offers international readers the latest science news from the Nordic countries.

New experimental method for studying defects in crystal lattices

Leena Vähäkylä — 2011-11-17T12:48:35+02:00

Academy Research Fellow Filip Tuomisto and researcher Jussi-Matti Mäki have developed a new experimental technique that can be used for studying opto-electronically active materials. Light-emitting diodes can be made more efficient by reducing lattice defects in the starting materials. In collaboration with the DTC Research Centre (UK), the method was used to solve the mystery of the brown colour in natural diamond.

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-11-14T08:21:04+02:00

Academy of Finland joins Science Europe

Vesa Varpula — 2011-11-11T10:44:22+02:00

At its meeting on 8 November 2011, the Board of the Academy of Finland approved that the Academy of Finland will join Science Europe. Science Europe is a newly established association of European research performing organisations and research funding organisations. It was founded in Berlin on 21 October 2011, and its Board was elected for a two-year term.

Tying molecules in knots

Leena Vähäkylä — 2011-11-07T09:10:38+02:00

A research team headed by Professor David Leigh of the University of Edinburgh (UK) and Academy Professor Kari Rissanen of the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) have made the most complex molecular knot to date, as reported in Nature Chemistry. Knots can be found in DNA, proteins and even in the molecules that make up man-made plastics, where they often play an important role in the substance’s properties.

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics to Academy Research Fellow Goëry Genty

Marjo Aaltomaa — 2011-10-06T16:35:41+03:00

IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics to Academy Research Fellow Goëry Genty 6 Oct 2011 The global organisations for optics and physics have granted the Young Scientist Prize in Optics 2011 to Academy Research Fellow Goëry Genty from the Optics Laboratory at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). Dr Genty received the award for his outstanding contributions in pulse propagation and ultra-fast...

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-10-03T08:11:35+03:00

Survey for researchers on the use of e-publications

Vesa Varpula — 2011-09-26T12:34:58+03:00

The Finnish National Electronic Library, FinElib, is carrying out a nationwide user survey aimed at researchers working in research institutes, universities and university hospitals. The survey will be open from 19 September to 16 October 2011.

Biobanks and registry data strengthen Nordic research collaboration

Leena Vähäkylä — 2011-09-22T12:29:27+03:00

The Nordic countries have a high level of expertise and should increase their cooperation on research based on biobanks and registry data as well as on clinical research. This is the view being put forth by the Joint Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Councils (NOS-M), which is comprised of representatives from the Nordic research councils. In a strategy memo presented recently, the joint Committee identified two areas in which there is great potential for strengthening Nordic medical research cooperation: biobanks and clinical research.

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-06-30T06:58:29+03:00

New synchrotron technique could see hidden building blocks of life

Leena Vähäkylä — 2011-05-27T11:30:56+03:00

Scientists from Finland and France have developed a new synchrotron X-ray technique that may revolutionise the chemical analysis of rare materials like meteoric rock samples or fossils. The results have been published on 29 May 2011 in Nature Materials as an advance online publication.

Academy voices support for common strategy in EU research and innovation funding

Vesa Varpula — 2011-06-14T13:34:16+03:00

The Academy of Finland takes the view that high-quality research and innovation is crucial to advancing the well-being of individuals, the environment and society. It also lays the foundation for sound and viable business. Research and innovation provides societies with the tools they need to resolve the challenges they face and to regenerate. The Academy of Finland considers it important that the EU supports cutting-edge research and innovation. The Academy also supports the key idea advanced in the EC Green Book for the integration of different EU research and innovation funding programmes.

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-05-20T14:53:09+03:00

Open positions at EUI

Vesa Varpula — 2011-04-18T13:41:47+03:00

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-04-04T14:02:12+03:00

ERC Proof of Concept call open until June 2011

Vesa Varpula — 2011-03-30T17:35:10+03:00

US Department of Energy: call for applications for thermochemical biofuels research

Vesa Varpula — 2011-03-24T09:15:45+02:00

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking applications to develop fully integrated catalytic upgrading processes that will be capable of long-term continuous processing of the proposed feed stream (from thermochemical degradation of raw biomass). The upgrading process can be stand-alone (yielding a finished fuel/blend stock) or it can be a processing step that produces feed streams compatible with existing shipping/transportation infrastructure and petroleum refining unit operations.

Open positions at EUI

Vesa Varpula — 2011-03-07T07:08:28+02:00

Two PhD researchers and one postdoc on European regulatory private law The project is sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) and focuses on European private law (ERPL) beyond the boundaries of national private legal orders, which are guided by autonomy and freedom of contract. This socio-legal project focuses on the search for a normative model that could shape a self-sufficient...

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Vesa Varpula — 2011-01-31T07:25:03+02:00

Indo-Finnish call for proposals in food biotechnology

Vesa Varpula — 2011-03-02T15:27:32+02:00

The Academy of Finland and the Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology open a joint call for proposals in the area of food biotechnology. The call deadline is 29 April 2011. Researchers are invited to send joint proposals to the Academy and the DBT.

Symposium for Academian of Science, Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie

Vesa Varpula — 2011-02-25T14:07:39+02:00

Registration is open for A Global View of Disease Genomics: Symposium Honouring Academian of Science, Professor Leena Peltonen-Palotie, to be held in Helsinki, Finland 18–19 May 2011.

Indo-Finnish call for proposals in nanomaterials

Vesa Varpula — 2011-02-18T17:37:44+02:00

The Academy of Finland and the Indian Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology have decided to open a joint call for proposals in the area of nanomaterials. The call deadline is 31 May 2011. Researchers are invited to send joint proposals to the Academy and the DST.

Ilkka Hanski receives the Crafoord Prize

Vesa Varpula — 2011-01-25T18:48:59+02:00

Ilkka Hanski, Academy Professor at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded the mini Nobel, i.e., the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Apply for Postdoc Pool grants

Marjo Aaltomaa — 2011-01-12T10:35:27+02:00

The "Foundations' Post Doc Pool" (Säätiöiden post doc -pooli) has opened another application round for grants from 15 December 2010 to 14 January 2011. Grants awarded by the Pool are intended for postdoctoral research abroad. The round’s results will be published in March 2011.

Vacant chairs at the EUI

Marjo Aaltomaa — 2011-01-12T10:36:03+02:00

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Marjo Aaltomaa — 2011-01-12T11:37:47+02:00