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Blog: Sustainable lifestyles bring more satisfaction to life by Arto Salonen
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 ›
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Blog: Creating Sustainable Growth and Development Through Digitalization by Janne Järvinen
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 ›
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Blog: Green is the New Normal by Helena Sarén
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 ›
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Blog: How Technology Can Make Societies Resilient Against Climate Change
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 ›
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Video: Getting Along With Space Weather
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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How Do Electric Cars Work?
Illustration: Sebastian CestaroRead more ›
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Filling the World with Brilliant Light
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 ›
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Fuel from CO2 – Sachin Kochrekar wins the Millennium Pitching Contest
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 ›
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Heavy metal purification from lakes – Aino Kuusi and Nikolai Argatoff win 2021 Millennium Youth Prize
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 ›
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The technology behind LEDs illuminates, cools and even finds cancer cells
Shūji Nakamura, an American professor born in Japan, received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2006 for his work in developing LED technology. Thanks to his work, many of the devices…Read more ›
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