Research projects and establishment of a professorship

 

Since 1998 the University of Helsinki, the Helsinki University of Technology and the cities in the metropolitan area have had urban research professorships, whose task has been to undertake scientific research in connection with the cities’ needs and activities.

Similarly, the city of Turku has endowed professorships at the University of Turku and the Turku School of Economics. Under the same principle, the professorship to be established would concentrate on environmental protection or on furthering environmental research.

The research projects would be focused on cooperation with universities, research institutes and the practical stakeholders involved. For example, one project starting up is studying the nitrogen emissions and impacts of ships that operate between Helsinki and Tallinn.

Helsinki and Turku...

In cooperation with universities, institutes of higher education, and research institutes, the cities participate in technical/scientific research projects connected with improving the state of the Baltic Sea

• In connection with this, Helsinki will establish an endowed professorship in the field of environmental
research or protection.