News

The Creating Spaces for Diversity of Worldviews in Early Childhood Education project aims to enhance teachers’ competence on worldview education and to develop early childhood pedagogy that recognises diversity.

The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture is one step in Finland's way towards carbon neutrality. In agriculture, emissions are released by animals and soil.

Sustainability transitions call for swift action, but the identity and history of past livelihoods should also be acknowledged.

You, too, could be suffering from fatty liver – even if you don’t drink any alcohol. Often, weight gain causes fat to build up in the liver, but also genes, gut microbes, and even environmental chemicals play a role.

Tourists are learning to demand that tourism services and tourism products should be produced responsibly. How is responsibility visible in the everyday choices made by tourists and hotel entrepreneurs?

“Photonics is about light: we create, modify, observe and move light from one place to another,” Head of the Institute of Photonics, Professor Jyrki Saarinen says.

Several projects are underway at the University of Eastern Finland that seek to help embrace a gentler and more accepting approach to food and eating in food education.

Can vitamin D supplementation prevent cancer, diabetes or COVID-19? Recent research has yielded both hope, disappointments and new questions.

Regulating corporate social responsibility would lead to products and services that ethically more sustainable, but solving the equation of free trade and responsibility requires finding answers to difficult questions.

Becoming carbon neutral by the end of 2025 is a strategic goal for the University of Eastern Finland.