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Awards were presented to Researcher Andrew Agbaje, Professor Larisa Leisiö, Postdoctoral Researcher Piritta Torssonen and the Karelian Institute.

There is a clear positive association between publicly subsidised RDI funding and regional innovation capacity, a recent study funded by Business Finland shows.

The University of Eastern Finland has received the European Union’s HORIZON-CL2-2021 funding for three research projects. The total amount of funding is almost EUR 1.1 million.

When people move elsewhere, municipalities have to keep an increasingly close eye on how they spend their dwindling resources.

“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.

The Äly Project maps change management and new opportunities in Finnish regions and municipalities with shrinking and aging population. Our literature review concentrates on defining smart adaptation.

The Äly Project maps change management and new opportunities in Finnish regions and municipalities with shrinking and aging population.

Research focuses upon the uneven development of different regions that has led to a trend where population growth only occurs in a few urban regions.