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The Saastamoinen Foundation has donated EUR 100,000 to the University of Eastern Finland for grants for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.
The funding is designed to promote the preconditions for further academic research by researchers who have defended, or will be defending, their doctoral dissertation on the Joensuu Campus.
The donation will enable an even stronger research investment into eye diseases causing visual impairment. The research is carried out in close collaboration with the University of Eastern Finland.
Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.
Sami Väänänen, PhD, a researcher at the UEF Department of Applied Physics and a medical physicist at the Kuopio University Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Centre has been granted Clinical Researcher funding by the Academy of Finland. Väänänen is the first medical physicist to receive this funding, which is usually granted to researchers in medicine or veterinary sciences.
Itä-Suomen yliopisto tukee monin tavoin Suomen Akatemian akatemiatutkijaksi syksyllä 2021 hakevia henkilöitä.
In 2020, the university achieved a good operational and financial result. The coronavirus pandemic and the emergency conditions had an impact on the university’s activities, but the key operational objectives were achieved well.
The funding will be used to promote research activities in areas of significance to the university, which pertain to drug development and discovery, neurosciences, the forest-based bioeconomy, and the development of technologies that make use of photonics.
Kone Foundation has awarded, from its autumn 2020 calls, more than 1.5 million euros in grants to projects run by University of Eastern Finland researchers.