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The Finnish Research Infrastructure Committee at the Research Council of Finland has awarded approximately 1.4 million euros in funding to the SHARE-FI research project coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland.

The Ministry of Education and Culture has allocated a total of 225 million euros to universities for pilot projects in doctoral education. The University of Eastern Finland is involved in 11 pilots now selected for funding.

Associate Professor Miina Porkka's ERC-funded research project AQUAGUARD investigates how human actions modify the water cycle and how these changes affect life on Earth.

CERTAINTY: Cloud-aerosol interactions & their impacts in the earth system project, funded by the Horizon Europe program, aims to advance our comprehension of clouds and aerosols in the climate.

The University of Eastern Finland is coordinating the work package on the role of courts and climate advisory bodies.

The University of Eastern Finland coordinates two funded Flagships, GeneCellNano and UNITE, and is a partner in the ACCC Flagship.

The University of Eastern Finland receives a total of 1.8 million euros in funding for infrastructure projects. UEF participates five funded consortiums.

Professor Jarkko Rautio was granted funding for an Academy Project called “Boosting delivery of LAT1-targeted boron carriers for improved boron neutron capture therapy”.

Project Researcher Katarzyna Wisniewska at the School of Humanities was awarded a 40,000 euro grant by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

UEF Brain Research Unit takes part in an EU project aiming to develop a fast, reliable, cost-effective and digitally enabled point-of-care in-vitro diagnostic system for early Alzheimer's disease detection.