Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies - News

A new policy paper calls for decisive action to transform how Europe monitors noncommunicable diseases.

This year’s awardees are Senior Researcher Hanna Laako, Project Manager Anna Logrén, the SOLDEX project, the Peat & Trees – Peatland and Soil Ecology Research Group, and the Department of Nursing Science.

The Research Council of Finland has granted funding to strengthen R&D activities in wellbeing services counties, for clinical research, and for research into forest biomass in Finland and into sustainable energy solutions of the future.

The University of Eastern Finland (UEF) welcomed the Ambassador of Poland to Finland, Tomasz Chłoń to Joensuu.

Changes in EU chemicals policy and legislation may affect the pharmaceutical sector in many ways, but they are rarely reflected in pharmaceutical policy, legislation and guidance, a new study shows.

Arts-based approaches effectively capture the complex and layered experiences of displaced young people, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows.

Two recent studies from the University of Eastern Finland show that social support plays an important role in health and well-being in later life.

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland gives prisoners in Finland a voice in the current sustainability transformation debate.

A new documentary film, SAKBE – Roads of Life in the Maya Forest, tells a story of biocultural diversity and about people, nature conservation and conflicts in an area where biodiversity is extraordinarily abundant.

Professor Sonja Kosunen leads an Academy Project in early childhood education and care, and Arjen Gerbraad and Maria Skalska-Tuomi were awarded Academy Research Fellow funding.