Dr. Péter Mezei, Associate Professor, University of Szeged and Adjunct Professor of University of Turku, held a guest lecture 15 November 2017 at the Faculty of Law commemorating his 20th teaching visit to the University of Turku. Nearly 30 colleagues and students gathered to listen the lecture.
An international research group led by Postdoctoral Researcher Erkki Kankare has discovered a new population of extremely bright explosions in distant galaxies. These may be the brightest supernova explosions ever observed. Several researchers from the University of Turku are involved in the study.
The Central Baltic Springboard joint project with Riga, Tallinn and Turku came to an end in October 2017. The Finnish partners were the University of Turku and Turku Science Park Ltd. In the last two years, Springboard enabled cross-border mentoring, meetings, and exchanging ideas between dozens of start-ups and teams. The goal of this novel project was to accelerate the growth of the participating start-ups and its results exceeded the goal even better than expected.
The ECOPRODIGI project funded by the European Union from the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme involves shipyards, shipping companies and other key actors around the Baltic Sea region.
The Phoenix science award of the Turku Finnish University Society was granted to Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa for her significant and creative interdisciplinary research on evolution.
A study conducted on the graduate engineering double degree programme of the University of Turku and Fudan University shows that the activating teaching methods used in the programme develop students' innovation skills. An article based on the study called University Education as a Pathway to Innovation has been published in the international Journal of European Higher Education Area.
Stories have power, in both good and bad. According to Professor of Comparative Literature Hanna Meretoja from the University of Turku, some cultural practices of storytelling are connected to repressive mechanisms of power, while other practices are empowering.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius from Lithuenia gave a lecture at the University of Turku on Tuesday, 24 October, on the Baltic Sea security policy. Linkevičius, who was invited to talk by the Centre for Parliamentary Studies, focused both on Russia's conflict-causing role and on international collaboration in the prevention of these conflicts.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius.
