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Finland's role as a support structure was further highlighted when the result of the Brexit referendum disrupted Finns' everyday lives in the UK.

The course focuses on concrete ways to prevent conflicts between different actors.

Citizens’ awareness of critical raw materials is low, which may affect their attitudes towards, and acceptance of, mining activities.

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Namibia used diverse remote sensing data to ascertain how elephants and other large herbivorous mammals affect vegetation and its structure.

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

The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Culture and Society granted funding for new Academy Research Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher posts.

The new opportunities for participation can also disproportionately burden or even impose responsibilities on actors, whether citizens or authorities, who do not necessarily have the skills and resources to take on new responsibilities.

Heli Huhtamaa defended her doctoral dissertation at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Bern in 2017. Now, she is working at the prestigious Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, studying the effects of past volcanic eruptions.

Doctoral Researcher Rijal Ramdani started in the University of Eastern Finland’s shared doctoral student position system in 2021 and is now finalising his doctoral dissertation on palm oil production and peatland fires in Indonesia.

UEF researchers explore local, national and EU-level policy governance and the development of new business ecosystems.