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Grants were awarded for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.

The lecture topics range from radiation biology to forest planning, and from pharmaceutical policy and brain health to literature and education.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society has granted Academy Research Fellow funding to Mirella Miettinen and Armi Mustosmäki.

The research infrastructures of the University of Eastern Finland have been added to the national Research.fi portal, and they are also increasingly visible on the university’s own website.

The Universities of Helsinki, Lapland, Oulu and Vaasa, and LAB University of Applied Sciences, join the Sustainability Studies Network.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies’ very own Staff Scientist is tasked with developing the faculty’s data-intensive research infrastructures and methodological expertise.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland are currently studying whether group-based digital gaming can improve the prospects, well-being and life management of young people at risk of social exclusion in the North Savo region.

Kone Foundation has selected 13 research projects from UEF for funding, which amounts to a total of 2.6 million euros.

The festive atmosphere of the doctoral conferment ceremony held in Kuopio last June can now be revisited via a commemorative book, and via a video of the entire ceremonial conferment of degrees.

Maintaining religious values and framing in daily family living helps transcend boundaries that may strengthen unity and is upbeat to the studied Finnish-African parents.