Energy & Environment

We catch up with Michael Grätzel, the 2010 Millennium Technology Prize winner, to reflect on the impact of the award, his dye-sensitised solar cells invention - and what he has…Read more ›

Arto Salonen, Professor at University of Eastern Finland Sustainable well-being is often seen as being based on scaling down and giving up. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. Sustainable…Read more ›

Janne Järvinen, Mission lead in Digitalization at Business Finland In the midst of the climate crisis, the sustainability of our current model of economic growth has come under question. The…Read more ›

Helena Sarén, Head of Carbon Neutral Finland mission at Business Finland, explains why low carbon offers huge business opportunities, and how green transition will drive recovery from the dual impact…Read more ›

The latest report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) posits that there is no completely turning the clock back on rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions.…Read more ›

Professor of Computational Space Physics Minna Palmroth, chair of the Millennium Technology Prize, talks about what space weather research is. My name is Minna Palmroth, and I'm a professor of…Read more ›

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We catch up with the 2006 Millennium Technology Prize winner, Shuji Nakamura, to reflect on the impact of the award, his illuminating LED invention - and what he’s achieved since…Read more ›

Sachin Kochrekar from the University of Turku has won the first ever Millennium Pitching Contest, our competition for doctoral candidates with a task of solving grand challenges of our time.…Read more ›

Millennium Youth Prize was organized for the third time in the spring 2021- the competition was about finding the solutions for global sustainable development challenges assigned by the Aalto University…Read more ›