The Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS) will arrange a new Advanced Research Japanese course with the help of a grant from the Japan Foundation. The course will introduce the students to conducting fieldwork and reading primary sources in Japanese.
The Annual Report 2013 of the Entrepreneurship unit has been published. By clicking the picture below you will be able to familiarize yourself with the activities of the unit during the year 2013.
Researchers at the Turku PET Centre are looking for functional approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of secondary-progressive multiple sclerosis which currently has no treatment available.
The results of Tomi Solakivi’s dissertation encourage businesses to carefully analyse the supply chain management decisions they make concerning, for example, outsourcing. “Although it is generally thought that outsourcing is good, it is best to consider the specific characteristics of the enterprise. More is not always better,” Solakivi says.
Salla-Tuulia Siivonen’s dissertation in the field of Accounting and Finance suggests that strategic changes in basic industry enterprises are posing new challenges for their accounting departments. Accounting departments are now expected to produce calculations and forecasts that provide additional value.
According to the Japanese Ambassador to Finland, Kenji Shinoda, who visited the University of Turku, Finland and Japan share a common mindset as well as future challenges, such as the aging population.
Ambassador Kenji Shinoda saw considerable potential in Arctic cooperation between Finland and Japan.
The new UTU – Life & Science magazine is now available in electronic form for both PCs and tablet computers.
The University of Turku was given an excellent rating in the research publications and international orientation measures of U-Multirank, which is a new European university ranking published for the first time.
The agile software development event gathered together IT professionals, students and international speakers.
