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“Instead of planning for growth, regions with a dwindling population should learn to adapt to shrinkage,” says Teemu Makkonen, UEF’s newly appointed Professor of Regional Research and Economic Geography.
Ulla-Mari Kinnunen’s career path has led her from nurse to professor with profound understanding of knowledge management in social welfare and health care.
As a young boy, Juho Pesonen would show professors of tourism around his hometown, Savonlinna. This August, he, too, joined the ranks of tourism professors at the University of Eastern Finland.
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen’s work at the University of Eastern Finland Law School is pioneering: no similar professorship exists in Finland nor abroad.
Societal policy measures and individual choices both play a role in moving towards sustainable well-being, Professor Arto O. Salonen says.
“The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it many important lessons and experiences from crisis management and the revolution of work,” says Professor of Management Pia Heilmann.
Professor Lasse Peltonen has seen the causes and consequences of environmental conflicts both as a researcher and as a mediator. The roles are different, but both are needed to understand conflicts and to find solutions to them.
Alongside the remembering of heroes, nations must look at their past with a critical eye in a way that makes minority voices heard, says Olga Davydova-Minguet, Professor of Russian and Border Studies.
In the health and social services reform, a good manager knows how to connect different pieces and hold them together.
The next UN Climate Conference will be held in Glasgow in 2021, and all participating countries are asked to increase their ambition in climate change mitigation.