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Cities want to become more sustainable but bringing that ambition to life can be quite the challenge. Academics have to work together with urban planners to help realise sustainability transformations.

The doctoral dissertation of Natalia Koricheva describes how preschool children aged from 4 to 7 learn English as a foreign language in the kindergartens.

The University of Eastern Finland is a partner in a new, six-year project focusing on knee osteoarthritis, which has been granted approximately 6.7 million euros of funding by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. UEF’s share of the funding amounts to 1.4 million euros.

Kuopio will witness the building of a new, nationally unique laboratory environment where it is possible to process highly hazardous biological agents, such as coronaviruses.

Marja Laasonen has been appointed as Professor of Logopedics as of 1 June.

Acute elevation in certain plasma microRNAs, along with downregulation of the clusterin protein within 2 days post-injury can act as early diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for TBI, according to the doctoral dissertation of Shalini Das Gupta, MSc.