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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

The Sea

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

Martin Snickars

gul vägg med gröna och röda löv

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.

halvfulla bokhyllor

Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies

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

uppslagen bok, hand som bläddrar

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

Trappor

The fundamental rights of older people need to be better protected

BioCity Symposium shows the invisible

Professor Jyri-Pekka Mikkola står med armarna i kors och lutar sig mot sin pappas gamla Saab.

Toward a world free from fossil fuels

Application to become Internal Centre of Excellence 2019-2023 open

Events

En doktorshatt och -värja på ett bord

18.6.
2018

Public defence of doctoral thesis in industrial chemistry and reaction engineering

Auditorium Ringbom, Axelia, Turku, 13.15

En doktorshatt och -värja på ett bord

18.6.
2018

Public defence of doctoral thesis in physics

Auditorium Salin, Axelia, Turku, 12.15

En doktorshatt och -värja på ett bord

29.6.
2018

Public defence of doctoral thesis in english language and literature

Auditorium A, Gadolinia, Turku, 13.15

23.8.
2018

BioCity Symposium

BioCity, Turku

Humaniora, psykologi och teologi

Naturvetenskaper och teknik

Pedagogik och välfärdsstudier

Samhällsvetenskaper och ekonomi

Research projects

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

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Stig in! Astu sisään! Come in!

tessu project

TESSU – Guidance together

OSMO – Multicultural knowhow to the Navigators

Publications

21.02.2018

Novel biorenewable composite of wood polysaccharide and polylactic acid for three dimensional printing

24.01.2018

Saaristolinnuston kehitys Turun saaristossa1993–2016

23.01.2018

The effect of latex characteristics and addition level on the properties of cellulose nanofiber films

10.01.2018

Form-function relationships in a marine foundation species depend on scale: a shoot to global perspective from a distributed ecological experiment

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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