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Strategic Research Areas

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Minority Research
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Molecular Process and Material Technology

Drug Development and Diagnostics

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You can call it a myth or whatever you want, but we are seeing the changes; they are a fact. Climate change is advancing faster than researchers have predicted so far. Martin Snickars, head of Husö biological station

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Work with us

We are a familiar minority university with an international atmosphere and great ambitions regarding education and research. Join us and work for a better world!

Centres of Excellence

We have one national and four internal centres of excellence in research. This way, please.
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Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies

Doctoral studies are organised in the form of Doctoral Programmes, which jointly constitute the Doctoral School of Åbo Akademi University.
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Open Science and Ethics

Open access to research data, materials and results is the foundation of sustainable knowledge. This is a good scientific practice that is important for us.
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Research Institutes

Part of the research at Åbo Akademi University is conducted at independent research institutes or centres. Here are links to the research institutes' own websites.

Research mobility

Our research mobility programme supports research visits to and from Åbo Akademi University.

Innovations

Our researchers create and develop innovations in collaboration with other universities and institutions of higher education, companies and organisations.
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Startup Åbo

Startup Åbo is Åbo Akademi University's entrepreneurship community. Our aim is to support, serve and encourage students, researchers, teachers and alumni in developing entrepreneurial skills and mindsets.

News

Converting factories into innovation platforms to make production more efficient in Finland

Registration for Aboagora 2018 “Burden/Skuld” open
Trappor

The fundamental rights of older people need to be better protected

BioCity Symposium shows the invisible
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Events

22.8.
2018

Aboagora 2018

The Sibelius Museum, Turku

23.8.
2018

BioCity Symposium

BioCity, Turku
Gul bakgrund

30.8.
2018

Open lecture and doctoral workshop on ethnographic research methods

Auditorium Westermark, Arken, Turku, 10.00
En doktorshatt och -värja på ett bord

31.8.
2018

Public defence of doctoral thesis in history

Auditorium Salin, Axelia, Turku, 13.15
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Research projects

osmo project

OSMO – Multicultural knowhow to the Navigators
SHUREA project group

SHUREA

Strengthening Human Rights Research and Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vulnerability as Particularity: Towards Relativizing the Universality of Human Rights?

A research project funded by the Academy of Finland, September 2017 – August 2021, Åbo Akademi University Institute for Human Rights
BSN

Baltic Science Network
stig in projekt

Stig in! Astu sisään! Come in!
tessu project

TESSU – Guidance together

Publications

1.02.2018

Feasibility study of woody-biomass use in a steel plant through process integration

30.01.2018

Troubles with mycorrhizal mushroom identification where morphological differentation lags behind barcode sequence divergence

18.01.2018

"Med fötterna på marken och huvudet i himlen". En ritualteoretisk studie av schamanistiska och västafrikanska trumverksamheter i finländska städer

18.01.2018

"Kvinna i brist på bättre ord". Självkategorisering som utgångspunkt för en inkluderande språkvetenskap

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Contact details

Address

Research Affairs
Tavastgatan 13
20500 Åbo/Turku
Finland

E-mail

research@abo.fi

Telephone

+358 2 215 4722

Research Affairs

Tavastgatan 13, Turku, Finland