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A long-term study spanning more than 50 years illustrates how the beavers that have returned to the Evo region in southern Finland have increased habitat biodiversity.

Rector Tapio Määttä has appointed the Heads and Deputy Heads of Departments and Schools of the faculties. The Head and Deputy Heads of UEF Law School was appointed by Vice Rector Jussi Pihlajamäki.

The relationship with water is becoming problematic in Finland, and this is evident across society, Professor Taru Peltola says.

The University of Eastern Finland has been awarded over 320,000 euros of Team Finland Knowledge programme funding, and over 347,000 euros of Erasmus+ Global Mobility funding.

The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities has granted 2.8 million euros of funding to four new Academy Projects and one new Academy Research Fellow at the University of Eastern Finland.

Nine Academy Projects and four Academy Research Fellows secured funding.

Historians could offer new perspectives to the discussion on environmental change.

Produced by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, a new podcast exploring international themes brings current issues and researchers from the geopolitical edges on the agenda.

The special role of the University of Eastern Finland is to enhance knowledge among current learners and future leaders in educational settings.

A newly published book, The Maya Forest Waterlands: Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders, critically explores Mesoamerica’s borderlands, remoteness, geopolitics and conservation.