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With the addition of the striped horsefly to Finland’s fauna, there are now 39 horsefly species in Finland.

The University of Eastern Finland is a partner in the BATCircle 2.0 project, which constitutes part of Business Finland’s Batteries from Finland ecosystem. Led by Aalto University, the main goal of the BATCircle 2.0 consortium is to add value to the Finnish battery sector and turn it into a billion-euro industry.

Funding granted by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering to UEF researchers amounts to more than 2.1 million euros.

The University of Eastern Finland, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oulu, the University of Turku and the University of Jyväskylä have launched a joint project to develop a nationwide biodiversity education network. The project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture.

MSc Arūnas Meščeriakovas's doctoral thesis focuses on the development of novel carbon materials, their characterization, and application in energy storage and water purification.

“Photonics is about light: we create, modify, observe and move light from one place to another,” Head of the Institute of Photonics, Professor Jyrki Saarinen says.

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Biosciences, Health and the Environment announced yesterday 24 new Academy Research Fellow posts and 33 new Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

The Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after K.I. Skyrabin (KNAU) and the University of Eastern Finland embarked on a tree-planting operation on the KNAU campus in Bishkek.

The main objective of STREAM is to create innovative collaboration with and build capacity of Mongolian research organisations, educational institutions, companies, producers, communities, administrative authorities and decision-makers in the development of climate-sustainable agro-ecological food production chains, as well as in the diverse, sustainable use of forest resources.