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Improving waste management in villages in North Karelia, Finland, and in the Karelian Republic, Russia, the WasteLess Karelias project was announced as the winner of the 2022 Arctic Award.

According to the researchers, the scope of GMP and ERA regulation is limited, and they do not prevent the release of pharmaceuticals into the environment along the manufacturing supply chain.

Although increasing attention is being paid on participatory research methods, they still remain underused in research addressing older people’s learning.

Finland’s unique and extensive sets of register-based data provide researchers with the opportunity to explore people’s risk-taking behaviour in a genuine market environment.

The project concluded that a sense of community, active communication and resident participation play key roles in the development of local waste management, recycling, and sorting practices.

A study conducted in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city of 9 million residents, showed that people living in the city’s established and new urban areas have access to better-quality and better-accessible healthcare than people living in the suburban areas.

Teollisuusneuvos Heikki Väänänen Fund awards grants for wood-related scientific research at the University of Eastern Finland.

A Recent study found that men with higher numerical IQs were more likely to engage with skill-based gambling, such as horse racing, choose more complex betting products and spend more money.

The current perception of Finland as a model country for equality often prevents us from seeing not only structural inequalities, but also various more subtle forms of discrimination and exclusion.

HIWE project engages with different groups representing highly skilled international talent across health and pharma, ICT and engineering, as well as the retail and tourism industries.