“My research aims at understanding how the transition to more sustainable sea logistics can be achieved through innovation and the change in the respective business ecosystem structure.”

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its third monthly Bulletin on the impact of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on fundamental rights across the EU Member States. It looks at the impact of government measures …

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 at the time of its initial outbreak.

“In my case, a Professor of Practice is a person with a background in science, working in the government (Swe. statsrådet) with the main task of connecting science and policy.

For Åbo Akademi University and the Ministry of the Environment, this way of realizing such a post has turned out mutually beneficial.”

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

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.

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its annual report on the protection of fundamental rights in the EU Member States. The Fundamental Rights Report 2020 explores the main developments of 2019 in the following …

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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 courses on important topics of bioscience, biomedicine and pharmacy disciplines.

The science and art event Aboagora adopting a new form in August Aboagora – Between Arts and Sciences is an annual symposium, bringing together various aspects of academia, the arts, and society. This year, Aboagora dives …

Health Campus Turku launches new service for product development New Health Campus Turku research, development and testbed service TERTTU boosts the testbed activities in the healthcare sector in Southwest Finland and enables co-creation of new solutions …

“My current research focuses on processes that might be referred to as ‘the weather in the sea’.

Research over the past decade(s) has demonstrated strong sensitivities of Baltic Sea species and ecosystem to man-made disturbances, such as global warming and acidification, but also to more regional stressors such as eutrophication or reductions in seawater salinity and its oxygen content.”

Increased demand for online tools developed at ÅAU When the COVID-19 epidemic became a global pandemic, education at every level was moved online all over the world. The pandemic has meant a major international upswing in …

”The strategic university research profile The Sea grew from the need for Åbo Akademi University to promote and facilitate multidisciplinary efforts of highest academic standards in order to increase our knowledge and understanding of our common sea, through a variety of questions within marine ecology and the environment, industrial engineering and management, public administration and governance, and marine/maritime law.”

The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) has published its second monthly report on the impact of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on fundamental rights across the EU Member States. It looks at the impact of government measures …

Research into mental disorders as a side effect of COVID-19 is funded by the Academy of Finland Eleanor Coffey, Research Director at Turku Bioscience, has received funding for the project Mitigating mental illness after effects of …