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In the past 30 years, substantial R&D efforts in the field of Earth Observation (EO) have been made globally, but the observation data has not yet been commercialised on a larger scale. The European Regional Development Fund has financed the international BalticSatApps project, which aims at speeding up the market uptake of EO data in the Baltic Sea Region. The project is led by the Brahea Centre of the University of Turku.

The University of Turku has long traditions in multidisciplinary sea and maritime research. At the moment, the University is recruiting two assistant or associate professors (tenure track) and a research director.

For decades, machine translation has been discussed to replace humans, but the goal has not yet been achieved. Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a newer development in machine translation, and there are high expectations for it. The School of Languages and Translation Studies at the University of Turku organises courses on translation technology and machine translation with emphasis on practical approach to modern technology. Neural machine translation is marketed in the media as the solution to the problems between languages. Is that also the case beneath the surface?

Application for the programmes opens 1 December 2017 and ends on 31 January 2018 at 3pm (Finnish time). The application form is online at studyinfo.fi.

The Master’s Degree Programme in Nordic Cultural and Social Resilience (NOCURE), tackles the questions of how societies react and adjust to cultural, environmental and social change.