• Åbo Akademi University encourages students and staff to use the new coronavirus tracing app

    31.8.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    Åbo Akademi University encourages all students and staff to download the new Koronavilkku coronavirus tracing app.

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  • New research in early childhood education shows that children actively want to understand and express themselves regarding the coronavirus

    3.7.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    To comprehend and process the social crisis and upheaval in everyday life that have resulted from the corona pandemic, we need research and new perspectives. Researchers of early childhood education at Åbo Akademi University, University of Helsinki, University of Gothenburg, Örebro University and Umeå University have studied how children attending day-care or preschool comprehended coronavirus…

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  • New ECOTIP project will investigate ecosystem tipping points and their cascading effects in the Arctic

    1.7.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    With Horizon 2020 funding, ECOTIP launches a pioneering assessment of changes to Arctic marine ecosystems and societies, from melting ice to shifting fisheries.

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  • The MAAMERI project investigates how the ecosystem of the Archipelago Sea reacts to changes in the nutrient load

    29.6.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    The MAAMERI research project aims to investigate the effects of reducing the phosphorus load coming from land on the marine environment in more detail and understand how the recovery of the environment could be enhanced.

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  • Åbo Akademi University successfully delivered an online course on bioinnovation

    17.6.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    novation In May, the Department of Biochemistry at the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Åbo Akademi University successfully completed a 12 week online course on bioinnovation for 70 student from several universities. The course was developed within the Jobitti project, funded by The Ministry of Education and Culture, and aiming at establishing high-quality online…

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  • Åbo Akademi University will gradually reopen from 14 May

    6.5.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    Åbo Akademi University will gradually reopen from 14 May Åbo Akademi University is gradually starting to reopen its facilities on campus from 14 May onwards. The opening will be gradual and controlled, in accordance with the authorities’ instructions and restrictions, and in accordance with guidelines agreed upon with other universities and with the Ministry of

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  • Universities decided on changes to spring student admissions (2020)

    30.4.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    Universities decided on changes to spring student admissions It is important that applicants keep preparing for the admissions and take care of their wellbeing. Their long-term preparations have not gone to waste. The universities have decided on the implementation of student admissions in the current emergency conditions. All the units responsible for the study options

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  • Finnish researchers look at noisy quantum computer

    6.3.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    Finnish researchers look at noisy quantum computer Researchers from CSC – IT center for science, Åbo Akademi University, Aalto University, Finland, and their collaborators from Boston University in the USA have for the first time demonstrated how the noise impacts on quantum computing in a systematic way. The results are published in the prestigious journal

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  • A new learning model to enhance citizen participation

    6.2.2020

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    Pamela Friström

    A new learning model to enhance citizen participation How to teach citizens to become active members of the society? Peter Ehrström, Head of Research in Regional Science, and Marina Lindell, Project Researcher at the Social Science Research Institute of Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa, approached the question by inviting a group of students on a

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  • Kim Strandberg and Kimmo Grönlund awarded for best article 

    22.11.2019

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    Pamela Friström

    Kim Strandberg and Kimmo Grönlund awarded for best article  Kim Strandberg, Academy of Finland Research Fellow and Professor of Political Science at Åbo Akademi University, Kimmo Grönlund, Professor of Political Science at Åbo Akademi University, and Staffan Himmelroos, researcher in political science at the University of Helsinki (previously at Åbo Akademi University) are the winners of the 2020 Meisel-Laponce Award.  The award is given every four years for the best article published in International

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