Department of Geographical and Historical Studies - News

The special role of the University of Eastern Finland is to enhance knowledge among current learners and future leaders in educational settings.

A newly published book, The Maya Forest Waterlands: Shared Conservation, Entangled Politics, and Fluid Borders, critically explores Mesoamerica’s borderlands, remoteness, geopolitics and conservation.

The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee (FIRI Committee) has taken the funding decisions concerning the research infrastructures selected to Finland’s national roadmap.

The study found that local societies adapted to water security challenges by implementing innovative strategies.

The UniPID network gathers the university community from all over Finland to discuss and plan joint objectives to advance global responsibility, cooperation with the Global South, and sustainable development.

In all, the Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee within the Research Council of Finland selected 21 infrastructures to the roadmap of national research infrastructures 2025–2028.

The university is a partner in three projects of the Democracy for the Future programme and one project of the Water for Welfare, Security and Peace programme.

The study show a close correlation between the diffusion of renewable energy sources and the geographical context.

Novel study explores the impacts of international and national natural resource management policies on community livelihoods in Cameroon .

More than 50 international students and teachers from nearly 20 different countries are attending the Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution course on the Joensuu Campus.