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The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) welcomed the Ambassador of Poland to Finland, Tomasz Chłoń to Joensuu.

It is a must-read for researchers, policy makers, border security professionals and representatives of civil society organizations.

Securing funding is an essential skill for a researcher, no matter their field of study or position. For this reason we organized a Proposal Development workshop for PhD students with an experienced grant writer and reviewer – Vanessa Fuller.

Talks by Po-Yi Hung and Mei-huan Chen showed how maritime borders and island infrastructures remain dynamic sites of cooperation and contestation. The Taiwanese researchers’ visit was an opportunity to kick off a new collaboration, under the BorderLink Project.

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 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.

In the beginning of June, RUSTIK project members gathered at the UEF for a project meeting and living labs sessions, organized by the Karelian Institute. RUSTIK is a four-year transdisciplinary research project aiming to enable rural communities’ actors and policy makers to design better strategies, initiatives and policies fostering sustainability transitions of rural areas.

The Karelian Institute invites applications for two Doctoral Researcher positions in border studies on Joensuu campus.