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Mr President, your excellencies, honoured guests, Professor Green, my warmest congratulations. The Millennium Technology prize is awarded to innovations that improve people’s quality of life, or support sustainable development. The…Read more ›

Mr President, your excellencies – dear friends: Serendipity. This is a word, which means finding valuable things without planning to do so. It’s based on the story of three princes…Read more ›

Finland is one of the few countries that offers students free university education. Because of this, it is widely considered that everyone can be the architect of their own future…Read more ›

Space based data or more specifically geospatial data, a form of space-based data associated with a specific geographic location, has many critical roles to play in today’s society. It is…Read more ›

Sustainability is now non-negotiable. It is now beyond dispute that climate change has escalated to become one of the most pressing matters facing humanity. It is impossible to ignore the…Read more ›

Natural gas is a finite resource and burning it contributes to global warming. This makes it necessary to urgently invest in alternative energy sources. Considering the combined carbon footprint of…Read more ›

Two important players in the green transition of our society are universities and private companies. For many reasons, the collaboration between the two is of particular importance. The business case…Read more ›

The world can achieve a fully renewable energy system by – or even before – 2050, LUT University professor Christian Breyer argues.  An energy system based on renewables has become…Read more ›

Reversing biodiversity´s ongoing deterioration requires system-wide re-organization, a transformative change across technological, economic and social realms, i.e. a fundamental shift of paradigms, goals, identities, power and future expectations. But do…Read more ›

Like many other consumer decisions, whether the purchase of an electric car is an environmentally friendly choice depends on many factors. There are two major questions to consider.  The first…Read more ›