Studia Generalia: Biodiversity as a basis of life on Earth

The Sustainability Transformation Doctoral Education Pilot (SusTra) offers open Studia Generalia lectures in autumn 2025. The best experts in the field offer the lecture series, tackling the pressing sustainability challenges we face. These 14 online lectures will provide impactful insights into creating a sustainable life and society across various domains, including work, business, leadership, administration, legislation, social imagination, well-being, and education.
These Studia Generalia lectures are based on an open Sopuli PhD course organised by SusTra Doctoral Education Pilot, a collaboration of 10 universities and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, www.uef.fi/sustra

• Osallistu luennolle tästä: https://uef.zoom.us/j/64857640310

Thu 11.9. Ilari Sääksjärvi, University of Turku: Biodiversity as a basis of life on Earth

• Theme of the lecture: The global decline of biodiversity is advancing rapidly, and international goals for halting biodiversity loss have not been met. This lecture introduces the key concepts of biodiversity research and explores what’s going on in global biodiversity front.
• Ilari E. Sääksjärvi is a professor of biodiversity research at the University of Turku, Principal Investigator of the BIODIFUL research consortium and Vice-Chair of the Finnish National Nature Panel. He has conducted research on biodiversity, particularly in Amazonia and tropical Andes, and has developed interdisciplinary biodiversity research. Ilari’s passion is science communication. Every year he visits kindergartens, schools and high schools to talk about nature, in the hope of creating hope for a good future.

Further information

Responsible course leader: Professor Arto O. Salonen, UEF 

Course coordination: Research manager Meri Löyttyniemi, UEF