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Doctor Francesco Cappellano has been awarded the title of Docent at the Karelian Institute for research on regional innovation and cross-border governance.

The project seeks solutions to support affordable and sustainable housing in rural areas.

The most important motivator is the sense of community that reservists seek and experience through their involvement in voluntary national defence.

It is incredible to think that in the 1990s, notions of a borderless world and the end of the nation state were readily bandied about, says Alexander Diener.

The Research Council of Finland’s (RCF) Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities awarded the UEF 2.4 million euros for Academy Projects and 2.1 million euros for Academy Research Fellows.

The Research Council of Finland has awarded 2.5 million euros in funding for Alexander Diener’s professorship and the establishment of a new research group.

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

It is a must-read for researchers, policy makers, border security professionals and representatives of civil society organizations.

Securing funding is an essential skill for a researcher, no matter their field of study or position. For this reason we organized a Proposal Development workshop for PhD students with an experienced grant writer and reviewer – Vanessa Fuller.

Talks by Po-Yi Hung and Mei-huan Chen showed how maritime borders and island infrastructures remain dynamic sites of cooperation and contestation. The Taiwanese researchers’ visit was an opportunity to kick off a new collaboration, under the BorderLink Project.